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SD2305.  John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 337.

[London]

16th November [1859]

 

… I saw Mrs Browning [i.e., the Field Talfourd portrait]. It is better than the photograph, but not at all satisfactory to me.

Text: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), pp. 220–222.

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