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SD2423.  John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 362 (in part).

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[Postmark: 14 December 1860]

Dear Miss Heaton

I like Hughes Picture exceedingly– It is not Aurora Leigh in the least but you cannot expect a young man—happy in wife & family—& full of exceeding tenderness—to understand the fiery depths of stormy Sunrise. This picture is a charming one of two people in love. It has its faults of course—but you are fortunate in possessing it.

Text: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), pp. 227–228.

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