Excerpt from Elfrida

My Dear Lee,

Some months ago I published "Kynwith" at your suggestion, and if amusement were all one expected to derive from criticism, I have certainly had no lack of it, but I look in vain for the proximate unity of opinion from which I hoped to obtain valuable hints as to the merit of ray work, and the expediency of further efforts. Looking over the reviews, I find the Athenæum awarding me "considerable power of word painting, some sense of humour, and much careful study of good models in verse, " while the Imperial says, "both thought and language are as prosaic as possible."

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