Autograph letter signed with initials : [London], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, [1812 May].

Apologizing for not responding to EBB's two letters earlier, but explaining that she has been ill: "...it is only within the last fortnight that I began to get better & I know my good little Girl will be glad to hear that I am now quite well, & anxiously looking every day for a Letter to say, my own dear Ba is coming to see me--"; telling her that there will be a playmate for her when she arrives, a young member of the Scarlett family; writing that she hopes "Harry" (Henrietta) has been good and has "learnt all the prayers you were so kind to make her repeat every Sunday morng"; mentioning that she has had letters from her son Samuel (EBB's favorite uncle), who will be returning to England in July; writing that Sam has been ill and that the Duke of Leinster, his brother William Charles Fitzgerald, and a Mr. Howard have been looking after him; telling her that Sam has said that as soon as he is better, he and the party will leave Palermo, travel around Sicily, proceed to Malta, and then return to England; adding "[h]e says I must tell his dear Ba you will have a Letter from him by the next pacquet & if he can get a safe conveyance he will send you a Maltese chain"; asking EBB to "[s]ay something very pretty" to her aunt Frances Butler and to convey how sorry Elizabeth Moulton and Mary Trepsack will be not to see her before she leaves for Ireland; telling her to kiss "your dear little Sam" (EBB's little brother, born in January 1812) for both of them; asking in a postscript for EBB's father to send papers related to Mary Trepsack.