Autograph letter signed : "5 Cheyne Row" [London], to an unidentified recipient, [1840s] "Wednesday night".

Replying to a letter addressed to her husband on the subject of [Giuseppe] Mazzini, and noting that, while she is generally bored by such correspondence, the present subject is one in which she takes "the warmest interest" and she therefore takes up the task of answering him "without the smallest inward protest in the world"; stating that in her and her husband's opinion, it would be best for Mazzini's Italian supporters to "keep silent for the present", expressing her opinion that "the letter question will not be let go to sleep God willing"; that her husband's public statements in support of Mazzini served as the most credible testimonial possible on his behalf, and that "any further vindication just now would seem superfluous, and from the part of Young Italy or any aged Italy I should fear that it would provoke attacks on him rather than prevent them."; concluding that she will discuss the subject further with the recipient at an upcoming concert, "which may save the Austrian Embassy the trouble of deciphering an unreasonably long note."