Autograph letter signed with initial : [London], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, [1843 January 5].

Commenting on a sketch of Keats that EBB sent in an earlier letter; responding to questions she asked about his writing ["Euthanasia"]; saying "What in the world was it, in that scrap of 'Ten thousands' I sent you, that threw you into a theologic anger, as it seemed. I have absolutely so little knowledge of any dogmas, and their shades, that I really don't know when I am likely to offend any of them. I mean, that I protest I am not aware of what criminal expression therein, (in that script) led to such a suggestion of a 'fiery lecture.' I vow I only meant to say that any physician who allows a dying - certainly dying - patient to writhe in agony day after day, is a brute or a weak-minded gentleman - that's all. The thing was strictly medical, and only applied to cases of extreme anguish. But if you turn 'frantic along that top like torches' into hands that may be 'gently led down by their Creator' - why I say Amen let it be so;" commenting, in a postscript, on the 'storm' over his article on Albertus Magnus.