Typed copy of a portion of an autograph letter : Denmark Hill, to W.H. Harrison, 1858 Sept. 13.

Writing that if Dr. Colquhoun is to be in town, he would like to send a box of cigars to his home, and he would like to know how to get to Dr. Colquhoun's Caledonian Asylum the annual guinea he promised. "There seems an immense deal of fun & a peculiar wit about Dr. Colquhoun," although "it revolves very much around himself--I doubt if he would care for... my sons [wit], the latter indeed comes only on paper." When he took out his son's letters to read, he saw Dr. Colquhoun look at Mr. Harrison "as much as to say--`here's a pretty bore!' and he did not take rightly the passage on `the Negress Beauty of Lips.' Next night, Furnwall understood it better... but he is a curious & clever person, fit to play upon a whole company ready for anything or anybody & apparently as good a creature as can live though not quite sufficiently orthodox for Mrs. R." They hope to have Ruskin back tomorrow "but he leaves home soon for a little quiet work."