Autograph letter signed : London, to [Richard Holt] Hutton, [1864?] Apr. 15.

Thanking him and Mr. Townsend for what they have said about the poet "E.H.W." ("I don't think it can rightly give her anything but pleasure"), with observations on the nature of poetry and a quote from Goethe; followed by his impressions of Eton ("a place where a boy is compelled to become a gentleman and invited to learn something") and his views on education ("The only way to accomplish what we want is to make the middle class eager and earnest about it, not suspiciously looking on merely. Sometimes I think this may be accomplished, and then I meet a Wesleyan minister of 40 or 50, whose under-culture, self-satisfaction ... drive me to despair. ... Self dissatisfaction is the lesson to teach our English middle class-and I do really think they show signs of beginning to learn it.").