Autograph letter signed : New York, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1844 June 27.

Telling her that he has seen the sheets for the first volume of the American edition of her Poems and they have achieved "a triu[m]ph in the reading"; mentioning that only three or four people have seen them, among them John Louis O'Sullivan (editor of The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review), and that they have all compared it favorably with, among others, the work of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Mrs. Hemans; giving his own opinion: "[I]t is unquestionably the best Poem written by an Englishwoman, and [...] the two volumes cannot fail to place you, in all wise judgements, where I had already placed you, at the very head of the Female Writers of Britain and I am inclined to think that sundry of the Great Sex might, with a little modesty allowed them, give you place in another right than that of your Womanhood"; discussing the poem "A Drama of Exile"; writing that a publishing series, The Home Library, has failed, despite starting out with a collection of a poems by William Cullen Bryant; telling her that he has made another and a better arrangement for publishing her work, the terms of which he gives at the bottom of the letter; explaining that the part of the book will appear in the July issue of the Democratic Review with an introductory note, and that she also will receive copies of the American edition; asking her to send the sheets for the rest of the collection as soon as possible, via Wiley & Putnam; writing that the Philadelphia booksellers Carey & Hart were going to publish her Poems, but they have stepped aside in favor of Henry Langley, who is also the publisher of the Democratic Review: "[Langley] is active, prompt, and respectable: has what is called a 'flourishing' store on Broadway, and will, I believe do your Book, good justice"; writing that he intends to review her Poems in the Democratic Review; praising the preface she wrote for the American edition; asking whether Richard Horne has received the copies of Mathews's books he'd sent through EBB; passing on details about the publication of A New Spirit of the Age in the United States; writing that he was glad to see that she had contributed poems to a collection of poetry about illness, but "sorry that you should have ever been called to dip your pen, of too profound and intimate a knowledge, in such themes"; in a postscript, giving the text of the contract between Henry Langley and himself regarding EBB's Poems, with information about the royalty rate and accounting schedule.