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SD2258.  John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 356 (in part).

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4th April [1859]

Dear Miss Heaton,

Certainly you must think me quite a wretch. But I have written you one, not long—but actual …

I don’t like this of Mrs Browning’s—but can’t say why. Too long—and no use—I get about ten letters requiring answers and am in need of getting none by right. But I am pretty well—and doing some useful things. If this letter reaches you, give my dear love to Mr and Mrs Browning.

Text: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), p. 219.

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