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SD2468.  John Ruskin to John James Ruskin

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 293 (in part).

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[8 July 1861]

Mrs La Touche writes to me to say she is more sorry for my having lost a friend than even for England’s having lost one more teller of truth. Indeed—for all that she was believed—the loss is mine most.

Text: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), p. 234 (in part).

Manuscript: Yale University.

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