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EARLY LETTERS, 1827–1843

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2011

John Ruskin
Edited by
Edward Tyas Cook  and
Alexander Wedderburn
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To his FatherMay, 1827.

My dear papa,—I have missed you very much especially on Sunday for though I do miss you on the evenings yet I miss you more on sunday mamma is always thinking of you for when she fills miss deprey's cup she only puts in the milk and sugar and leaves the rest to miss depreey. I have changed very much in my lessons for while mary was with me I said them very ill every day but now I almost say them very well every day. we are perhaps going to make a balloon to-day perhaps not for a good while, just as I was thinking what to say to you, I turned by chance to your picture, and it came into my mind now what can I say to give pleasure to that papa, the weather is at present very beautiful, though cold. I have nothing more to say to you dear papa.—Your affectionate son,

John Ruskin.

Mamma says that I may tell you I have been a very good boy while you have been away.

WALES

That rock with waving willows on its side

That hill with beauteous forests on its top

That stream that with its rippling waves doth glide

And oh what beauties has that mountain got

That rock stands high against the sky

Those trees stand firm upon the rock

and seem as if they all did lock

Into each other; tall they stand

Towering above the whitened land.

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The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 1 - 36
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1909

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