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RUSKIN (JOHN) Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "Dear Mr Hull", giving printing instructions, 'I HATE WRITING', no place or date; with a photograph of Ruskin and two etchings by Hull
25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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RUSKIN (JOHN)
Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "Dear Mr Hull", giving printing instructions: asking him "please" to put "PREFATORY" instead of Part I "at the head of the first piece" ("...It will only be the preface, when the book is done -- & I hope to do the next better, but I hate writing, and am quite slow about it, now. So please tell me when you will want the next bit – You shall have it to time, always, if I'm well – revises too – if you'll tell me when you want them – but I like to throw a thing aside to get a fresh eye & ear with it"; with a photograph of Ruskin laid onto the integral blank; plus two etchings by Edward Hull, one showing the monument at Grasmere to his artist brother William, 2 pages, on mourning paper, traces of mounting on reverse of blank leaf, 8vo, no place or date
Footnotes
'I HATE WRITING' – Ruskin sees a book through the press. The mourning paper indicates that this undated letter was written soon after the death of his father, on 3 March 1864, or mother, on 5 December 1871. Intriguingly, Ruskin has written overleaf "I hope I did not offend" but then crossed this out and written below: "I haven't time to say what I meant to say – I will soon –".