Fragment of an autograph letter : Salcombe, to John Ruskin, [1889] May 31.

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Fragment of an autograph letter : Salcombe, to John Ruskin, [1889] May 31.

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Acknowledging the criticism he received from Ruskin in his last letter; saying "I will take a licking from you (as the schoolboys say) if you wish to administer such a thing as I would not, nor ever would, from any one but you and Carlyle--Do as you think proper. If I am too old to mend I am not too old to see the truth when it is put before me;" adding "Watch any man through his life and you find that the flowers and fruit which he throws off year after year, are organically as much the same as the flowers and fruit of an apple tree. Born a crab one remains a crab, though the crab may recover a little from an originally misshaped growth and may become a better specimen of its own kind;" hoping that Ruskin and Severn [Arthur] will visit him in the summer.

1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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