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Letter from Ellen Heaton to Robert Browning, dated 18 March (1868?), noting her wish to leave Talfourd's portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to the National Portrait Gallery.
 Letter of the head in chalk, - for which she so kindly consented to sit, when you both were in Rome in 1859 - to Mr. F. Talfourd - I am glad to know that you approve of this destination for it.

If we had time, when I saw you, I should have liked to ask if you knew of any very superior Lecturer on Art - who might be engaged to give Lectures here, on the pictures in the Leeds Exhibition, this summer. It is thought such


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