Autograph letter signed with initials : Brantwood, Coniston, to Mary Spence, 1875 Sept. 20.

Saying he does not care about being an angel; saying that last week he saw his first windhover and he would rather be a "happily married windhover;" saying that "I've been able to think of little else. It was so lovely and the absolute stillness in the sky so much more perfect than I had believed;" saying that "a stranger who had seen Rose [La Touche] said of her, to one of my friends, 'She looked like what one would have imagined a young sister of Jesus Christ';" describing his memory of Rose's face at thirteen and as it aged; saying that "it was the extreme strength with extreme delicateness which gave that look the stranger felt;" discussing his three houses: Brantwood, his rooms at Corpus Christi College and his old nursery room at Herne Hill with the Severns.