Autograph letter signed : New York, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843 March 30.

Writing that he is happy to hear that his "services" (i.e. in connecting her to publishing opportunities in America), as well as his letters and parcels, are appreciated by her; telling her that he was surprised to learn that a number of articles in the Athenæum had been written by her, and asking if she could identify her other articles, so that "I may track you in your tastes and pursuits"; commenting that she may now be regretting having asked him about his poetry and fiction; writing that he has sent her, via Wiley & Putnam, several copies of his pamphlet on copyright, which lists his publications; mentioning that he will send her some of his fiction from time to time, and that, as for poetry, he has written little other than the fragment of "Wakondah" that she read, "which I hope yet to complete in such fashion as to vindicate you over Miss Mitford"; commenting on Mary Russell Mitford's financial situation; responding to EBB's reference to Robert Browning's "New Tragedy" (i.e. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon) and telling her that Edward Moxon sent him a copy of it: "It is sustained and straightforward, in general, free from certain peculiarities of his earlier writings & shewing according to my judgement a true capacity for dramatic composition"; sending her a journal with a review by Evert A. Duyckinck of a production of the play; asking whether she could make inquiries at the Athenæum about the possibility of Duyckinck becoming the American correspondent for the magazine; sending her a copy of the Boston Miscellany (as with other enclosures referred to, this is no longer with the letter); characterizing James Russell Lowell unfavorably as "a young gentlemen [sic] of considerable cleverness but by all odds the most amusing speciment of mature & rampant conceit I ever happened to encounter"; adding that Lowell's magazine (see MA 8917.40) has closed down; informing her that the poems she sent him for publication in Graham's Magazine have arrived, and that the draft she can draw on at Wiley & Putnam should not be contingent on the sale of copies of the magazine in London; assuring her that he will make sure she is paid, if there have been any delays or questions about the arrangement.