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Mail Office. - Is glad to hear of the arrival of Milnes' son 'into this beautiful, though mysterious world'; hopes he will be able to see the boy 'when he is old enough'. Is glad Milnes likes The Footprints of Mercy; copies out a verse which he has inserted before the last verse, beginning 'The tempest which shook down the oak / has from the rose its perfume stirred...'

Mail Office. - Asks if he should publish the attached verses in a shilling book. Press cutting, with corrections, of poem entitled 'The Footprints of Mercy', 'by the author of "The Shadow on the Door"'.

Mail Department, General Post Office. - Has completed a poem, Myrilla, which he will publish as a farewell to 'the most cruel, and yet delightful mistress 'Poetry'; delivery of the mail; remarkable transit of 709 miles between Euston and Thurso in about fifty hours.

Encloses own composition inspired by the 'latter day Pamphlet': 'Latter day Pamphlets: Extract from a German Drama'.

Including 157a.

From unidentified paper.