Do write.

And never doubt my grateful affection for you, whether posts go ill or well.
Robert is going out to inquire about 'My Novel.' His warm regards with mine to dear Mr.Martin and yourself.

This is a scratch rather than a letter, but I would rather send it to you in haste than wait for another post.
Your ever affectionate BA.
* * * * * The following letter marks the beginning of a new friendship, with Miss Mulock, afterwards Mrs.Craik, the authoress of 'John Halifax, Gentleman.' The subsequent letters are in very affectionate tones, but it does not appear that the correspondence ever reached any very extended dimensions.
* * * * * _To Miss Mulock_ Paris, 138 Avenue des Champs-Elysees: January 21, [1852].
I hear from England that you have dedicated a book to me with too kind and most touching words.

To thank you for such a proof of sympathy, to thank you from my heart, cannot surely be a wrong thing to do, it seems so natural and comes from so irresistible an impulse.
I read a book of yours once at Florence, which first made [me] know you pleasantly, and afterwards (that was at Florence, too) there came a piercing touch from a hand in the air--whether yours also, I cannot dare to guess--which has preoccupied me a good deal since.

If I speak to you in mysteries, forgive me.