1830.
MY DEAR SIR, My last was, for want of room, concluded so abruptly, that I avail myself of an opportunity of sending you a few additional words free of postage, upon the same subject.
I observed that Lady Winchelsea was unfortunate in her models--_Pindarics_ and _Fables_; nor does it appear from her _Aristomenes_ that she would have been more successful than her contemporaries, if she had cultivated tragedy.

She had sensibility sufficient for the tender parts of dramatic writing, but in the stormy and tumultuous she would probably have failed altogether.

She seems to have made it a moral and religious duty to control her feelings lest they should mislead her.

Of love, as a passion, she is afraid, no doubt from a conscious inability to soften it down into friendship.

I have often applied two lines of her drama (p.