Lady Palgrave to John Murray: 'I have many thanks to give you for the kind present of my cousin's "Letters on Esthonia [ apparently Letters from the Baltic]," with which, not only myself, but all our boys are delighted. I read the book to them for a treat at night, and we all enjoy the lively descriptions and the clever details extremely. The writer seems to me to unite all a woman's delicacy and discrimination in home scenes and views with a want of diffuseness which is very unusual in a woman's writing. I think, too, that there is a great evidence of originality and of being [italics]undoctored[end italics], if I may use such a term, which gives much interest to Miss Rigby's work.'