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Estlin says that the French edition of "A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" has been published and that events in France have strengthened English adherence to the monarchical form of government. Estlin says that the Irish discontent is exaggerated. He quotes Richard Davis Webb as disapproving a separation of England and Ireland, which he considers "would be an act of the greatest cruelty." Frederick Douglass favors the Liberty Party. Estlin is well pleased with the Irish reply to the Boston invitation, but expresses disapproval of the anti-Sabbath Convention. Estlin comments on Henry Clarke Wright's religious views. He says that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline" reads better as prose than as poetry and that he does not care for modern American poetry. He dislikes William Lloyd Garrison's condemnation of Senator John P. Hale and is worried by French developments. Estlin does not think that the English should help Douglass. Estlin inquires as to who painted the portrait of William Ellery Channing that May purchased. Notations on the correspondence by May indicate that the portrait was done by Flagg.