Bronte." They must have replied pretty speedily, for on January 31st she writes again:-- "GENTLEMEN, "Since you agree to undertake the publication of the work respecting which I applied to you, I should wish now to know, as soon as possible, the cost of paper and printing.

I will then send the necessary remittance, together with the manuscript.

I should like it to be printed in one octavo volume, of the same quality of paper and size of type as Moxon's last edition of Wordsworth.

The poems will occupy, I should think, from 200 to 250 pages.

They are not the production of a clergyman, nor are they exclusively of a religious character; but I presume these circumstances will be immaterial.