‘I don’t quite know what the “Kyrle” Society means, but imagine I have stores of things they could put to use.—Ever faithfully yours,
J. Ruskin.
‘Enclosed may be a pretty little gift to any of your good girls.’
‘Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, March 7, 1887.
‘Dear Miss Beale,—I have put the little volume of poems into my near bookcase at the back of my arm-chair. They look really very nice, and show an extremely high tone in the school.
‘I am going to send you with the Pindar, a beautiful 13th cent. MS., with the Gregorian notes all written to the old Latin songs. I think the College will be proud of it, and your organist interested by it.
‘I shall be delighted to see whatever the teachers care to send me. I have been languid and stupid this spring, or should have written something for the drawing classes before now.—Ever faithfully and respectfully yours,
J. Ruskin.’
‘Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, March 11, 1887.
‘Dear Miss Beale,—There is no way of enlarging those Kate sketches: they were calculated for the little confusion caused by their smallness, and are not well drawn enough for magnifying.