Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1879] Dec. 24.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1879] Dec. 24.

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Acknowledging that "the harvest is passed, the summer is over and I am not forgiven....but indeed I do not know what I have done wrong since October when you talked of coming into Devonshire to see me;" telling him that he has just received a telegram informing him that his "eldest boy is dead;" adding that "the post when it comes will tell me whether he has drunk himself to death or shot himself to death. It is one or the other."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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