'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The sincerity and earnestness of the author gives animation & reality to his characters The idea of making filial devotion a reprehensible weakness is bold but well managed; only since the father is to enter a cloister he could not take his daughter there - & however this is nothing - his angry denunicaitions of peace are admirable The only criticism I would make is that the interest is not sufficiently concentrated on one person or one event - but why criticize when [underlined] much [end underlining] pleased. Pray thank Thornton for the pleasure he has given me.' [letter to Leigh Hunt]