Autograph letter, signed; addressed "Dear Madam," signed at end "R.W. Emerson" followed by the recipient's name (in which the middle initial could be misread as "S"); thanks Bennett for her note and gift; informs her that Sampson Reed's book "The growth of the mind" (that is, Observations on the growth of the mind) may always be found at Mr. Clapp's in School Street opposite the Tremont House, a modern edition but neither enlarged nor altered from the original edition of 1829; he recalls having sent the book in 1834 to Carlyle, who reported that he "read it with the interest which it deserved"; he has not yet made the acquaintance of her "little book", but thanks her for it in advance; notes that her name had been made known to him by his daughter Ellen, who had met Bennett "at some Sunday School Convention".