RUSKIN JOHN: (1819-1900) RUSKIN JOHN: (1819-1900) English writer, philosopher, a…

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RUSKIN JOHN: (1819-1900)

RUSKIN JOHN: (1819-1900) English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath. A.L.S., John Ruskin, two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, 3rd December 1886, to Captain R. A. Johnston. Ruskin announces ´I am greatly delighted with these lovely birds - and especially grateful to you for sending them to me, after the vexation caused you, as I have heard by one of my servants´, further adding ´I have spoken to him, and assure you that if he does not entirely quit such courses, he shall not stay with me. I can excuse a gipsy´s poaching - as I could a border foray; but for my own well fed servants to steal birds is the exactly worse offence against me they could commit against myself´. Some very light, extremely minor foxing, and one small trace of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG

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RUSKIN JOHN: (1819-1900)

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