Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1872] Feb. 11.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1872] Feb. 11.

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Commenting on Ruskin's Art Lectures which he has been reading; asking "But what is there about art which carries by the side of its brightness such an awful shadow? Why among the most cultivated of the Greeks--why among the Italians, do we find the most hideous immorality just when the art seems most brilliant in [illegible] imagination?"

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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