Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mrs. Hewitt, [ca. 1859].

Responding to a reference to mistletoe: "I never said that I thought girls like being kissed--did I? and mighty comfort it is to me to know that the dear creatures are good enough to bear it from all kinds of irreverent tobacco-flavoured moustache[s] ... "; wondering "how women could love men--You are all made up of beautiful things--whiteness and softness and rose colour--and fair lines--and we are bony things with beards-it seems so odd that you can love us"; disagreeing with "Brett the Pre-Raphaelite" that "the male is the most beautiful animal"; and discussing Keats, "the poet of the senses par excellence."