Letter from John Ruskin, Coniston, to Thomas Herbert Warren, 1886 June 15 : autograph manuscript signed.

Ruskin is grieved that the state of his health left the former letter without reply except through his secretary. He is grateful for the letter received today, for anything that Warren may have said indulgently about [Ruskin's autobiography] Praeterita (the magazine will doubtless come by later post), and for the sympathy expressed throughout the letter. Asks why Warren thought that he could be of any use to undergraduates [at Oxford]. He is entirely out of their world now and has no idea of their aims, pleasures, or dangers. Writing to undergraduates seems an impertinence to their tutors. Ruskin says that he has never understood what powers the Heads of Colleges have of choosing them and is every way at wide sea in the business.