SD2529. John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 317 (in part).
Bonneville, Savoy
13th October 1861
Dear Miss Heaton
I am at last recovering a little from my state of collapse, and regaining some notions of duty …
I have never written to Mr Browning—I cannot: the thing is too deep and terrible– I have not answered any of your questions either on this subject—I cannot dwell upon it.
Text: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), pp. 233–234.
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