Letter from Anna Mary Howitt, London, to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1855 January 15 : autograph manuscript signed.

Part 5 of a longer letter; writing that since beginning this long letter, Barbara's letter has arrived; describing how she loves to get "love letters" from a few dear friends; wishing that Barbara was feeling a bit stronger; describing how she read Barbara's letter by candlelight at noon due to fog; remarking on how she is glad that "our pioneer life at a distance looks beautiful -- I fear that to us here in the midst of pioneering it looks often much like the London fog -- very unbeautiful and depressing"; continuing on to say that she means however to struggle on manfully, or rather womanfully, through all fogs, including the fogs of bad criticism; describing how Mr. Hepworth Dixon asked her all summer to see her artwork, and then when she showed it to him, he criticized them and declared himself disappointed.