Young Mr.
Lytton is very young, as you may suppose, with all sorts of high aspirations--and visionary enough to suit _me_, which is saying much--and affectionate, with an apparent liking to us both, which is engaging to us, of course.

We have seen the Trollopes once, the younger ones, but the elder Mrs.Trollope was visible neither at that time nor since....
I sit here reading Dumas' 'last,' notwithstanding.

Dumas is astonishing; he never _will_ write himself out; there's no dust on his shoes after all this running; his last books are better than his first.
Do your American friends write ever to you about the rapping spirits?
I hear and would hear much of them.

It is said that at least fifteen thousand persons in America, of all classes and society, are _mediums_, as the term is.

Most curious these phenomena.
[_The end of the letter is lost_] * * * * * _To Miss Mitford_ Casa Guidi, Florence: February [1853].
I had just heard of your accident from Arabel, my much loved friend, and was on the point of writing to you when your letter came.