Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1884] Nov. 13.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1884] Nov. 13.

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Commenting on his [Ruskin's] lecture at Oxford saying "what shall I say? Something very unlike any utterance of modern Oxford. Vox clamantis but you would have me believe not in deserto;" commenting on the impression he has made on his disciples who "will do what you tell them;" relating his own hopelessness of living "in this blessed modern world;" ending by saying "I have a sort of nature of getting a cabin on an Australian steamer and sailing around the globe."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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