SD1873. John Ruskin to Dante Gabriel Rossetti

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 384–385 (in part).

[London]

[early November 1855]

Dear Rossetti,

You are a very odd creature, that’s a fact. I said I would find funds for you to go …

To-morrow D.V. I will bring you Ida’s money, about half-past two to four; please therefore be in; and meantime you can ask at some of the money-changers’ in Leicester Square what is the best form to send money in. I always do it through bankers—and I can’t do this so, for I don’t choose to be heard of as sending to Paris in the matter, and I won’t write to Browning about it—for my entire approval of the journey to Paris was because I throught she was to make friends of the Brownings directly. What the —— had she to do in Paris but for that?

If you like to write to Browning and to manage it, you can—but I won’t. …

Text: Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism; Paper 1854 to 1862, ed. William Michael Rossetti (London, 1899), as [?October 1855], pp. 105–107.

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