Edward Robert Lytton thanks Charles Kent for settling the debate over the Voltaire quotation mentioned in DZ/118/C2/141. He discusses progress made on a biography until Edward Butler’s marriage and is now only missing the story of the arrest of the thief/murderer. He poses several questions about the publishers of Edward Bulwer Lytton’s early novels, and ends my stating his plans to visit Ken to examine materials for the third volume of his biography.