John Ruskin | Three autograph letters signed

John Ruskin

Three autograph letters signed

i) to Dean Stanley, thanking him for permission to make casts of some funerary monuments in Westminster Abbey, “defaced as they are, the pieces of foliage above the shields will be among the loveliest models I can use in the Oxford schools”, sighing “if there were but a few more heads” on another set of figures (“but the bodies alone are a school of art”), 1 page, 8vo, Denmark Hill, 15 November 1871

ii) to Dean Stanley, seeking permission for his assistant, Arthur Burgess, to make some drawings and measurements in the Abbey, 1 page, 8vo, Denmark Hill, 26 March 1872, mounted on a sheet with item i) above

iii) to Rhoda Malleson, saying that her letter “does look interesting - I wait for my womankind to read it to me (they're at Church)”, referring to a publication, which “doesn't amuse me they all alike make me both angry and sick”, and to his variable moods, “I was in high glory on Wednesday - but have been black-sulking ever since”, 2 pages, 8vo, stamped envelope postmarked 28 January 1881, Ambleside, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, [no date], traces of mounting