5050. John Ruskin to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 65.

[London]

[Postmark: 9 April 1862]

Dear Browning

You say you “have things for me[.]” [1] How am I to have them? Would you like to come down to my quiet room of work at the National gallery on Saturday morning. —Or shall I come to the Athenaeum—on that or any other day?

Ever affectionately Yours

J Ruskin

Address: Robert Browning Esq. / 1. Chichester Road / Upper Westbourne Terrace.

Publication: DeLaura, p. 344.

Manuscript: University of Texas.

1. Presumably photographs of EBB and a presentation copy of Last Poems that is inscribed: “John Ruskin, affectionately, from RB. London, Apr. 8. ’62” (see Reconstruction, C57).

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