John Ruskin was an English art critic, writer, and reformer. The collection includes letters, writings, and other items by or relating to John Ruskin. Included are eleven letters, 1882-1884, from John Ruskin to a Mrs. Tulloch about classes at a rural school for girls, appropriate books for the girls, and other matters; six letters, 1883 and undated, from Ruskin's cousin, Joan Ruskin Severn, about John Ruskin and other matters, about seventy letters, 1880-1887, from Ruskin to Jessie Leete about the progress of his work, various aspects of his personal life, his theories of labor, and other matters; eleven letters, 1881, from Ruskin's secretary, Laurence Hilliard, to Jessie Leete, concerning Ruskin's illness of that year; six letters, 1885-1887, from Ruskin to Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) about etchings of paintings by J. M. W. Turner; scattered other letters from Ruskin; drafts of parts of and by Ruskin and notes and other items relating to those works; corrected page proofs, with Ruskin's annotations, of ; Ruskin's annotated copy of James Sowerby's (1863-1870) containing Ruskin's comments on etymolgies of plant names and classifications of plants; two signed photographs of Ruskin; and other items. Val D'Arno Fors Clavigera Frondes Agrestes English Botany