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[Translates a line by Goethefor him (counseling a young student): "Reason and good sense are expressed with little art. When you are seriously intent on saying something it is necessary to limit for words!"]

[Informs Mr. Fletcher Harperthat she plans to publish Clarenceand Redwoodwith Putnamsince they are not included in her contract with his publishing house; complains that according to friends of hers, copies of her books cannot be found in Boston, Hartford, and Philadelphiaat times, although she knows that he has the books on hand; and asks him to check with agents]

[Seeks a position for a Monsieur Bouillon, formerly a professor of Latin and Greek in Parisand once employed with the French Counsel, discusses the benefits of German and Protestant Irish maids, "[Mr. Pierce] prefers greatly the Protestant Irish -but they are rare -they have no hankerings after their priest & their church," reports on the Maroncelli familyand mentions other family members and friends]

[Apologizes for sending such a "shabby" manuscript; thinks the story too long for a "Souvenir Cabinet," but does not know how to develop so important a subject in less space, except through the etcher'skill; explains that she wrote to Mrs. Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourneyin a state of extreme depression due to the upcoming separation from her dearest friends; and reserves the right to republish the story on her own.]

[Asks Mrs. Tayloe to introduce a friend of hers, Mr. di Castillia, a most distinguished Italian exile who was imprisoned for 17 years, to Washington; and relates an anecdote of her father, Theodore Sedgwick, the distinguished revolutionary patriot during Shays' Rebellion]

[Replies to a note from Putnam that she has been working on the sketch, hopes to forward a sketch her friend has just finished in a day or two, asks him to have the Berkshirearticle copied for her and thanks him for sending some books.]

[Needs to know how long to make the article requested by Putnam "at any rate you will not wish it extended beyond what strictly belongs to the homestead" and apologizes for requesting the copy of the article on Berkshire. ]