Letter from Eleanor Anne Porden to Henry Elliott, commenting on poetry she has read She has finished "The Excursion" in better humour than when she started but still struggling to comprehend many parts of it and meaning and object of the whole; she would like him to read "Roderick" and "Charlemagne" to give her the pleasure to talk about it while it is still in her mind; she quotes lines of verse from the poems "Roderick "by Southey and "The Excursion" by Wordworth, and gives her opinions on them. She thanks him for Estrella, which he had transcribed, thinking the poem very respectable but with "fifty holes to pick in it". She heard a lecture on astronomy and its history given by Mr Babbage, with comments on his delivery and comparison with Pond. Campbell is to begin on the first of March; she hopes to meet him there. 16 Feb 1815