SD1844. John Ruskin to Dante Gabriel Rossetti

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 379 (in part).

[Denmark Hill]

[2 August 1855]

Dear Rossetti,

The enclosed note puts me in a fix. It is dated Tuesday, but I did not get it till late last night. I had given Mr. Browning leave to bring Leighton “any day next week,” but I understood Leighton was going away before Friday. I cannot put them off now, and the question is—Can Ida and you come on Saturday or Monday instead? … But, if neither Saturday nor Monday will do, come to-morrow, and never mind Leighton—though you will find them rather too noisy, I am afraid, for Ida. The carriage will be at your door at half-past twelve on whichever day you choose; so mind you get up in time. Leighton and Browning come to lunch at two. …

Text: Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism; Papers 1854 to 1862, ed. William Michael Rossetti (London, 1899), pp. 93–94.

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