[ikke HCAs håndskrift - Lohmeyers?]
"In Sweden" - or "The two Baronesses". - You can name the least sum, only that I can see I am secured from having a loss, where I expected a gain. Write to me your friendly determination clearly, in the course of a month. I know that you will also take my interest into consideration and therefore I resign myself entirely to that.
The title of the book will be "To be or not to be", words which all the world understands from Shakespeares "Hamlet". This is now my proposal, if there be anything therein to which yo object I shall hear it from your. With my best wishes for your self and and family I conclude these lines, perhaps we may meet in the course of next year as Dickens has kindly invited me to his house and I could have a great desire to come, especially if I, as I hope, by a new work, may show myself worthy of the good will of my English friends.
I remain
your sincerely attached
H.C. A.
To Richard Bentley Esq.
