SD2426. Arthur Hughes to Ellen Heaton
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 363 (in part).
Ivy College Staines
Wednesday Decr 26 60
Dear Miss Heaton
I shall be very glad to undertake a new subject for you for 35 guineas and will let you know as soon as I have found a subject. Meanwhile, if you have any favorites, I would like to know them.
Many thanks to you for giving me the chance of exhibiting Aurora. I have no doubt I shall be glad to avail myself of it some day–
By the way if you like to let me have the frame again it would be no loss to me to take it back as I can always use it again—and a frame could then be made for your picture to admit a glazer.
Mr Ruskin did not suggest any subject from Mrs Browning to me, and about Aurora, I think I have told you all that he observed except that he thought laughingly that a young lady whose poems had just been criticized could hardly look so beautiful– With best wishes, I remain
Very sincerely yours
Arthur Hughes
Address: Miss Heaton / 6 Woodhouse Square / Leeds.
Publication: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), p. 229 (in part).
Manuscript: Victoria and Albert Museum.
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