Two autograph letters signed ("Uncle John" and "J Ruskin"), to Agnése [Marks] ("Darling little Aggie" and "Darling Aggie"), in the first thanking her for her "beautiful letter" which he has not answered till now "for I am very woful about everything just now, and very anxious, and not able in the least for the things I came abroad to try to do: and what can I say to make you the least happy at hearing from me?"; but assuring her that he was thankful for her letter and that "you may write just what you like!", adding that "I gathered a forget-me-not on Jura for you, last week but when I looked at it the next day, it had shrivelled to nothing & it was no good to send it"; in the second describing his last breakdown and slow recovery ("...when I was ill in the worst way – NOT forgetting my friends – or lovers, but unable to say a word to them, in hopelessness of everything – Since last Xmas, gradually I have been coming to myself again – through bad fits and relapses – but really now I'm very nearly the Fessie you used to be rather fond of – (weren't you now?) and like to have beside you at dinner! – If I weren't so dreadfully old now -- & rheumatic – I'd come again – and enjoy myself yet – and get Papa to sing Lord Crewe to me at dessert, and tell him, very earnestly – that his visit to me at Morleys gave me more heartfelt pleasure than any human kindness – since these dark times have been on me..."); and going on to comment on her, mostly legible, handwriting before offering her a job as his secretary ("...My 'secretaire' salary is only now £25 a year – (its as much as a girl's worth, and theres no good in setting them up!) – but you could really deserve this – and feel you were most useful to me, if you would take quiet pains to decipher & copy letters that I want to print..."), 6 pages, the second on engraved headed paper, 8vo, "Sullenche" (Sallenches), Savoy, and Brantwood, 13 September 1882 and "Whitsun Monday" [10 June] 1889