Holograph, signed.

This letter is concerned with the prices of books and the "alarming reductions" at which books are sold, "which have been consigned on speculation by the London booksellers." One of these books was a rare French translation of an English work on the Corallines of the British Islands, which was given to Richard D. Webb by Dr. William Henry Harvey. Richard D. Webb has received a letter from Emma Weston. He wishes that he might see the three Weston sisters, who (for him) "remain unseen." He criticizes Henry Clarke Wright's lack of good taste. He wants Anne Warren Weston to tell him what she thinks of John Greenleaf Whittier and why. Richard D. Webb is reading Robert Southey's Life of Wesley. He comments critically on the Methodists.