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

Framing the letter as a musical performance, and telling her that he finds himself "jangled & out of tune this morning through various causes"; thanking her for a copy of The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Modernized (edited by Richard Horne, and with a contribution by EBB); praising her contribution and Horne's introduction; writing that her approval of the volumes of his writing he has already sent her gives him great pleasure and "I hope you will find when the later nos. reach you, that time may have mellowed some of the wildness of which you complain"; sending copies of his new volume of poems, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects Under the American Republic, for her and also for Horne and Mary Russell Mitford; mentioning that he will make sure she receives a complete set of his work; expressing interest in the new volume of poems she is writing; concluding: "I promise an early return to the chords of this great musical Shell of the Atlantic on the extreme edges of which you & I are at work 'most musical, most melancholy.'"