[Letter to] an Unidentified Correspondent

　　　　　　　　　 East India House
　　　　　　　　　　　Oct. 21, 1857                                  
Sir 
      In answer to your note
received yesterday, I beg to say
that I shall be happy to receive 
from you the work which you
do me the honour to offer. 
  There are few persons 
less sensitive to attacks on
anything they write, than myself,
or more desirous to profit by any,
even hostile, criticism, which
I do not expect that I shall find 
yours to be. I cannot however
undertake always to discuss with
my critics our differences of
opinion, which on subjects like
those in question are generally too
deeply grounded in our respective
modes of thought, to afford much
hope of their being removed by
controversy.  I am Sir
　　　　 y[ou]r ob[edien]t Serv[an]t
　　　　　　　　　　 　　　 　J.S.Mill