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SD2033.  John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 265 (in part).

[London]

28th December 1856

Dear Norton

Railways, are good for letters, assuredly. …

You have not—of course—yet read Mrs Brownings Aurora Leigh—or you would have spoken in your letter of nothing else—I only speak of it at the end of my letter—not to allow myself time to tell you anything about it except to get it, and to get it while you are still in Italy. …

Publication: The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton, ed. John Lewis Bradley and Ian Ousby (Cambridge, 1987), pp. 30–33.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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