Scope and Contents Anna thanks Bessie for her note. She has seen Harriet Hosmer’s ‘Beatrice Cenci’ at the Royal Academy, which she thinks very beautiful. She has begun an article for the Waverley [Journal] on works at the Royal Academy. She feels Bessie will make wonderful improvements to the Waverley. She is surprised but pleased at the news of Barbara [Leigh Smith]’s marriage [to Eugene Bodichon]. She feels E B looks a ‘hard sort of a man’. She wonders where they will live and says she is ‘in the dark’ on...