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RUSKIN (JOHN)
Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "My dear Victor", a hymn in praise of his overcoat, Brantwood, 7 January, no year

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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RUSKIN (JOHN)

Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "My dear Victor", a hymn in praise of his overcoat, "I'm as proud of my beautiful old fashioned coat as the man who kissed the maiden all forlorn would have been, if he'd got it – (I only wish I had a maiden all plain to kiss!) – but the coat's always consolatory. Its magnificent in protective power & picturesque effect – and will enable me this summer to ride triumphantly outside beside my charioteer Joe [Wilkinson]. – and think that I look like a swell just going to take the ribands", 2 pages, on headed paper, slight dust-staining, 8vo, Brantwood, 7 January, no year

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'THE MAN WHO KISSED THE MAIDEN ALL FORLORN' – Ruskin waxes lyrical on the delights of his "beautiful old fashioned coat". For his coats Ruskin favoured grey homespun cloth produced by the Laxey Woollen Mills on the Isle of Man, one of the enterprises he supported.

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