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John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1861 late April?

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.93
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents: "We will see about your private ticket [presumably for the Royal Academy]. I send you Turner -- with sincerest thanks. -- You can't conceive how worried I am just now about dozens of things -- & and can't call nor see people -- anyhow. I shall have to run out of town again I fancy.". In a postscript, Ruskin writes: "My main work is in arranging the Cambridge collection of sketches & very difficult." [On May 28, 1861, Ruskin presented 25 Turner watercolors to the Fitzwilliam Museum,...
Dates: 1861 late April?
Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton > Letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton