Autograph letter signed : New York, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843 November 5.

Mentioning that he is taking the opportunity of a friend's visit to London to send her this letter and enclosing a letter of introduction to the bearer, Charles Welford; describing Welford: "...although residing in & sailing from America [he is] English by birth: at this time, a Bookseller in New-York, of the Antiquarian order, a mighty master of literary gossip & ritual, I hope, you will find him pleasant and a by no means unfavorable distillation of the English character through the American. He can answer you whatever you wish to ask about our Literary Folk, great & small. Something about Copyright too & such matters if needs be. It might interest you in Mr. Welford that it was at his store that the first copy of your Poems was, I think, ever seen, in America & that he has long been most curious & most anxious to see you"; greeting the announcement of Horne's forthcoming New Spirit of the Age enthusiastically; hoping that he includes younger writers (male and female) in the book, as well as American writers; suggesting that "[h]e might at the distance of England & with something of the obscure that hangs about all things American, need a Cis-Atlantic Eye and hand to help in fixing the worthiest on the pedestals"; cautioning that "[h]e runs the risk, relying on report and newspaper authority, to miss some of our best and truest men & to make sure only of certain flaming politicians & circulating-library authors"; asking whether Horne has received a copy of Mathews's latest volume of poetry; writing that he is sorry that "my Publishers cast the Publication of all my Octavo Idleness (that is of all my idle writings, so to speak) a week too far ahead to allow me to send him a copy complete, which I will take care to do at the earliest opportunity."