Autograph letter signed : New York, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843 May 15.

Telling her that he is sending this "letterling" in acknowledgement of her two letters and promising a longer response soon; confirming that he has received the poems she sent for publication in Graham's Magazine; regretting that Charles Wentworth Dilke, editor of the Athenæum, has decided against having an American correspondent (see MA 8917.48); presenting her with a new edition containing two of his books, Motley Book and Behemoth, a Legend of the Moundbuilders, though apologizing for their "rude apparel"; asking her advice about English critics and how to arrange for the best reception of his books in England; asking if he could send a copy of the books to the Athenæum through her, and also if he could send her other copies for "such uses as you may put them to"; responding to her comments about Lydia Sigourney, who had published part of a letter by Caroline Anne Southey about Robert Southey's decline in her book Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands and allegedly added her own interpolations; asking EBB from where she had received her information about this matter, and promising to send her Sigourney's defense of her decisions; adding that "I confess I could not at the first exactly understand on what principle a familiar letter, for so it seems, found itself exposed to the glare of the multiform type of 1000 (or fewer) American Newspapers"; writing that James Russell Lowell's magazine, The Pioneer, has ceased publication and "I cannot tell what Poems you sent to it nor to what account they have been turned"; asking that she not consider him one of the "advertising authors" (i.e. authors excessively concerned with self-promotion and sales of subscriptions) recently denounced in an issue of the Edinburgh Review.