Let us hope in God that he and I may die at the same moment.'...
There's much good in dear M.Milsand's idea for us about Paris and the South of France.

Still, I'm rather glad to be quite outside the world for a little, during these first steps of 'Aurora.' Best love to the dear Nonno.

May God bless you both! Your ever affectionate BA.
Oh, the spirits! Hate of Hume and belief in the facts are universal here.
* * * * * _To Miss I.Blagden_ [About December 1856.] My dearest Isa,--Just before your note came I had the pleasure of burning my own to you yesterday, which was not called for, as I expected.

You would have seen from _that_, that Robert was going to you of his own accord and mine....
I am rather glad you have not seen the 'Athenaeum'; the analysis it gives of my poem is so very unfair and partial.

You would say the conception was really _null_.