Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1886] June 4.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, [1886] June 4.

Describing the social "Season" in London and the friends he has seen as he escorted his youngest daughter; saying that when it is finished, he means to "pack off with her and all my belongings into Devonshire in less than a fortnight to recover my senses if they are not gone for ever [.]"

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