Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Coventry Patmore, [n.d.].

Transcription: My dear Patmore I have been much interested by reading your paper, and concur most heartily in it all except my being fit to write an essay on Religious art, which I shall not be these ten years at least, and what you say of Spanish painters, whom I think a thoroughly irreligious [the letter "ir" in "irreligious" underlined] rascally set, only Velasquez a noble painter [the word "painter" underlined]: a great man -- but no more piety in him, I believe than in Lord John Russell -- (though I like his last letter exceedingly - in sic omnia -- it is a God send indeed -- but on his part a mere piece of scientific play). I think however from some passages in this paper of yours that you cannot have met with -- & might perhaps be interested in, some passages in the book I wrote about Turner, Modern Painters [the words "Modern Painters" underlined] - the second [the word "second" underlined] vol. -- if you have not seen it, I will send it [to] you as it bears much on my present work, marking the bit which I think would interest you. Never think of calling at D. [Denmark] Hill, my mother never expects anything of the kind and your holidays may be much better spent -- when you have time you must come to dine there again, the best way of calling. Yours most truly J. Ruskin.