"... Your suggestion as to national characteristics of women struck me as a curious coincidence with the fact that the editor of the Fortnightly has just asked me to write an article on American and English women, contrasting and comparing them, and discussing their differences. But the differences; seem to me individual, not national.
"Thanks for your suggestion about the sonnet.
"Break through the shining, splendid ranks
seems to me simpler and more forcible, but then this involves the 'I pray,' to which you greatly object.
"Break through their splendid militant array:
"I'll copy both, and see what you think. On the whole, I like yours better.
"I have been arranging books all the afternoon, and I am so tired that I wish I had the young prince here, or such another,—only there is no other."
The same to the same