MANUSCRIPT: AC. Ink. This note probably enclosed a poem.

PUBLICATION: L (1894) 381; L (1931) 371.

Mrs. Tuckerman has sent ED half a bouquet that had been sent to her.

A first rough pencil draft of part of the letter survives(AC):

Accept my timid happiness - no Joy can be in vain but adds to some bright (sweet) [?] whose dwelling