Envelope with stamp, postmark, fragment of a wafer and addressed to "Miss E.B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St / Cavendish Sq."
Place and date of writing from postmark.
Saying he also realizes that Monckton Milnes is out of print; asking if he should "...tell you of the great subject in which I should like you to take the lead, and I take up the thread as heretofore? Or, are you getting tired of having a dig in so many mines?...It is not Dr. Pusey - for he is done already;" asking, in a postscript, "Who is Agnes Strickland that she sh'd be named with Miss Mitford? Also who is Mr. Stirling [sic], for the other I heard of Tennyson and Mr. Stirling's Poems? Do you know anything about them? Do you know what foreign languages 'Our Village' is translated into?"