3615. John Ruskin to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 247–248.

[London]

Wednesday evening [5 September 1855] [1]

Dear Mr Browning

I will be with you tomorrow evening—joyfully—you do not name your hour, and I cannot get into town, I fear, till about ½ past nine—but I may have an hours chat or listen, even so late as that perhaps. And are you really going?– I would have come more after you—but I knew you must have many friends making claims upon you– I trust you will both do me the justice to believe it has not been owing to want of regard on my part—or of longing to talk with you. But—for all of us—every hour has I believe been numbered since you came– Believe me, when you come back again to England—if I am there—you escape not so.

–Ever faithfully Yours—and Hers–

J Ruskin.

I did not speak to either of you of poor Miss Mitford—thinking I should give Mrs Browning too much pain. I will write to you something about her, some day.

Address: Robert Browning Esq. / 13. Dorset St / Baker St.

Publication: DeLaura, pp. 319–320 (as 3 or 10 October).

Manuscript: University of Texas.

1. This letter is postmarked 6 September 1855, a Thursday.

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