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SD2371.  John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 349.

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[?mid-April 1860]

 

… Mrs. B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena—needlessly offensive and “band plays”)– Finest moral poetry ever written.

—Send me her address once more.

Text: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), pp. 226–227.

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