Including several letters re his brother Ebenezer.
Annotated 'No. 2. Cancelling previous proof'.
27 Westbourne Park Villas, Harrow Road, W.- Presents some local verses on Burns, including one by a Dunfermline youth who emigrated to Australia. Dunfermline's pride in Burns despite scarcity of his references to the locality. Milnes' great understanding on Sunday; encouragement will do Jones more good than medicine.
27 Westbourne Park Villas, Harrow Road, W. - Will meet Milnes on Sunday; encloses further copies of the 'Dream' [no longer present]; poetry of Burns; his request concerning Blackwood; unsucessful attempts to publish a poem, 'The Contention of Love and Ambition' in 1841, now wishes to publish something to make up for lost poetic years; own personal sufferings are not as great as they might be, despite his careworn appearance.