. . . I am glad you like the Book. {252a} You are partly right as to
what I say about the Poems. For though I really do think some of the
Poems very pretty, yet I think they belong to a class which the world no
longer wants. Notwithstanding this, one is sure the world will not be
the worse for them: they are a kind of elder Nursery rhymes; pleasing to
younger people of good affections. {252b} The letters, some of them, I
like very much: but I had some curiosity to know how others would like
them.
_To W. B. Donne_.
19 CHARLOTTE ST., FITZROY SQUARE,
LONDON.
[18 _Jan_. 1850.]