Venice, shortest day, 1876.
From Ruskin.
I have received to-day your letter, with its beautifully felt and written statement. It comes to me on my birthday to the Nuova Vita; this day last year being the one on which I got signs sufficient for me that there was hope of that life; and I am very thankful to know that I have been thus of use to you, and that you feel that I have; a much mistaken sense of a separation between us in essential principles having been for two or three years growing upon me, to my great puzzlement and pain; so that this paper is a very moving and precious revelation to me.
June 24th, 1876.
From Ruskin.
I was greatly delighted by your long kind letter; and it is much more than a delight to me, and it is a most weighty assistance in my purposes, that you can take this house[[81]] and put it to use....
I wanted to say something more about your and Miranda’s work.[[82]] I cannot say more, however, than that, whether in the best direction or not, it cannot but be exemplary and fruitful.
14, Nottingham Place,
May 28th, 1876.
To Mary Harris.