Autograph letter signed : [New York], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843 October 19.

Responding to three letters by EBB that he has so far left answered; apologizing for giving her the impression that he expected her to help distribute his books in England and explaining that he only wanted her advice; discussing the two volumes of his work that have already reached her, and the six to follow; listing the contents of a parcel he is sending her, with copies of the issues of Graham's Magazine containing her poems and copies of his new volume of poetry for Mary Russell Mitford and Richard Horne; telling her that all has been resolved with Graham's Magazine regarding her payment (see MA 8917.50), that the £10 she is due should be with Wiley & Putnam now, and that he has sent Graham's the other poems by her that he had originally held back, for future publication; thanking her for the copies of Richard Horne's poem "Orion" and promising to make sure that one copy reaches Graham's Magazine; describing an address given the previous evening at a meeting of the American Copyright Club, whose president is William Cullen Bryant; promising her a copy of the address once his notes (since he is Corresponding Secretary for the club) are put into print; discussing the prospect of an international copyright law: "...the cause of International Copyright wears a cheerful face. It will come yet, be assured, and in time to cover under one of its wings that new Volume of Poems which you hinted at and all but promised a while ago"; mentioning that her poems "The Cry of the Children" and "To Flush, My Dog" have been enthusiastically received in America; asking her what she hears about American writers in England: "I know, I know full well, that in many points this country has disappointed the hope and expectation of the World, in its Literature most of all. But underneath whatever coarseness or frippery it may have clothed itself in, you will perhaps allow me as a Son of the Soil to say the Giants frame lives and grows apace"; telling her that he has just signed a five-year contract with Harper & Brothers ("the Chief & leading publishers in the United States) for a new octavo edition of his works, which will be issued in November; promising to send her the new volumes when he has them, as "my only representative with you in England for a long day to come."