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SD1995.  John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 258 (in part).

[London]

[late November 1856]

Dear Miss Heaton

If securely pasted in at the back, Caius Cest and St Angelo may go—I would not expose Parnassus to …

Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language—poem I mean—(not drama)—but it is a noble drama too—& I have lost her Florence address and can’t write to tell her so—Will you send it me please– …

Text: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), pp. 194–195.

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