36 Nicholson, Hemans — Nicholson Correspondence. 



which he mentions you very particularly and desires his kindest 

 regards. When you see my Grandmother and Aunts, pray give our 

 united love to them, and believe me ever, my dear Sir, with the 

 sincerest esteem, 



Your obliged and afiectionate 



Felicia Browne." 



As no answer to this letter was sent, Felicia's younger 

 sister wrote this note : — 



" Bronwhylfa, 5th April, 1 8 12. 

 My Dear Sir, — 



Having but a short notice of the present opportunity, I have only 

 time to say that my sister has sent two sketches of her own drawing, 

 which accompanied by her kind regards, she begs you to accept. She 

 hopes the bearer of this will bring her a letter from you in answer to 

 that which she wrote to you a short time ago, and pray do not think me 

 unreasonable in saying, that if you have leisure and inclination, I should 

 also be happy to receive a few lines, as it is now some time since I have 

 had that pleasure. I have only to add our united best wishes and to 

 assure you that I am, my dear Sir, 



your affectionate and obliged, 



H. M. B. 



We have also sent one of my sketches, and a pencil drawing of 

 Felicia's." 



Harriett's letter is endorsed " Ans. 8. April " and 

 probably at the same date Mr. Nicholson sent to Bron- 

 whilfa a dozen copies of the volume of Felicia's poems 

 "The Domestic Affections," for which he had made him- 

 self responsible, and which had just come from the press. 

 The gift brought an acknowledging letter from the author, 

 and a much longer one from her mother. 



" Bronwhilfa, 25th April, 1812. 

 My Dear Sir, — 



Accept my best acknowledgments for the twelve copies of the 

 poems, which were received yesterda}-. I am mucli pleased with the 

 appearance and execution of the book, which are both extremely neat, 

 and I think better chosen than those of the former publications. I feel 

 much indebted to your partiality for the approbation you so liberally 

 express, but as I have no sanguine expectations from readers or critics, 

 at any rate their censure will not disappoint me, and I have so little of 

 the passion for fame which renders authors so acutely sensible to the 

 public opinion, that I am secured from much anxiety respecting the 

 reviewers. I have always some fresh occasion to renew my thanks for 



