For my part I rejoice greatly in it.

It is an individual glory full of healthy influence and benediction to the world.
[_The remainder of this letter is missing_] * * * * * _To Mrs.Jameson_ Casa Guidi, Florence: March 17, [1853].
Thank you--how to thank you enough--for the too kind present of the 'Madonna,'[19] dearest Mona Nina.

I will not wait to read it through--we have only _looked_ through it, which is different; but there is enough seen so beautiful as to deserve the world's thanks, to say nothing of ours, and there are personal reasons besides why _we_ should thank you.
Have you not quoted us, have you not sent us the book?
Surely, good reasons.
But now, be still better to me, and write and say how you are.

I want to know that you are quite well; if you can tell me so, do.

You have told me of a new book, which is excellent news, and I hear from another quarter that it will consist of your 'Readings' and 'Remarks,' a sort of book most likely to penetrate widely and be popular in a good sense.
Would it not be well to bring out such a work volume by volume at intervals?
Is it this you are contemplating ?...
Robert and I have had a very happy winter in Florence; let me, any way, answer for myself.