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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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