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A portrait of Henry Crabb Robinson

Letter describing an awful journey from Dover [to Paris], and reporting Miss S. [Fitton?]'s rudeness and strange rumours about MC's mother. She is charmed with EJR's information about [Charles] Dickens 'but an't you afraid the Americans will linch…

Note from Charles Dickens, Hotel Meloni, Rome, to EJR [also in Rome], wishing her well as he departs.

Letter discussing Mr [William Ellery] Channing's pamphlet [on the American Civil War and abolition of slavery], and hopes for Sardinia.

Letter from Frances Power Cobbe, Red Lodge House, Bristol, reporting 'excellent accounts' of Theodore Parker and his plans to come to England.

Letter from Wendell and Ann Phillips, [London], reporting that they have to leave England for home [Boston, Massachusetts, USA], expressing gratitude for EJR's kindness when Ann was ill. They ask EJR to thank Harriet Martineau for her 'noble,…

Letter from Wendell and Ann Phillips, Ligorno and Rome, Italy, reporting their disappointment that Ann's illness prevented them from touring Switzerland and North Italy as planned. Wendell describes their stay in Frankfurt, where he was interested to…

Letter from Frances Power Cobbe reporting that her interest in America is unabated, and 'I am delighted with Mr Cairns [John Elliot Cairnes]'. The first volume of [Theodore] Parker's collected works will be out before Christmas.

Letter from Frances Power Cobbe, Belgrave House [Durdham Down, Bristol], re proposals to place 'the 2nd Daily News letter' in the Liverpool Mercury.

Letter from Frances Power Cobbe thanking EJR and Miss Sturch for their kindness about 'my letter in the Daily News'. The Workhouse Visiting Society plans to send a circular letter to every Union Board in England stating their plan and offering their…