Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1886] Mar. 10.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1886] Mar. 10.

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Regretting that "after writing about the Reformation I did not set to work with the 'other side' and do as I intended a life of Charles the 5th--The Carlyle bequest of 'letters' (Mrs. C[arlyle']s letters) which he gave me in 1871 put me off it and now it is too late;" discussing Protestantism and saying "All I see is that our Institutions &c are mortal as we are--They grow sick and old and they die and rot. Henry the Eighth did as well as he could. He kept the English from tearing themselves to pieces--The Reformation was a human and Rational thing compared with Emancipation & Progress of the Species--"

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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