Autograph letter signed : Denmark Hill, to her mother, 1848 May 18.

Saying John sends kindest love and "is very glad" that you were satisfied with his letter. Mr. Ruskin appears gratified with her father's letter, and she is very glad about "the present improvement in his affairs." She is sending ties to her father and George from the best Regent Street shop, to be returned if not liked because they were "very expensive." The one for George is "quite fashionable. John has one like it." Her mother must never scruple to ask for any little thing Effie can send, for she will get much pleasure in making the gift if she can afford it: "John likes me to send you little things now and then." On Monday they dined with Sir Walter James, whose splendid house in Whitehall Place is the finest she has yet seen. The other guests were Mr. and Colonel Wood, Lord and Lady Stuart, the Marquis of Bate, "Sir Henry Laurence, one of the Indian heroes." She regretted that Sir Walter's stepfather, the Viscount Hardinge, and Lord James's daughter, Miss Stuart, did not come. Sir Henry took her down to dinner, Col. Wood sitting on her other side--"a very agreeable polished man," who is to send her an order for admittance to the Horse Guards for the military music on the Queen's birthday. The room "had a most aristocratic appearance being very large & hung with old pictures"; the round table was covered with silver dishes; there was a splendid gold chandelabre in the center, the dinner being "very fine" and the party "very merry." They got away at eleven, and today are going out so that she scarcely has time to write at all.