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SD1603.  John Ruskin to Coventry Patmore

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 371.

[London]

Friday Morning. [3 September 1852]

Dear Mr. Patmore,

I have been waiting to see if I could manage to get over to you on Saturday evening—and I have got my matters arranged so that I can have the pleasure of doing so. I will be with you at the hour you name, and shall rejoice to meet Mrs. Browning; but if she does not come, I shall be equally glad to have seen Mrs. Patmore again—after so many years.

Yours most truly,

J. Ruskin.

Coventry K. Patmore, Esq.

Text: Basil Champneys, Memoirs and Correspondence of Coventry Patmore (London, 1900), II, p. 293 (as [1855?]).

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