Autograph letter signed : Denmark Hill, to her mother, 1848 May 24.

Published p. 109, with three omissions: (1) she trusts that the three children who now have smallpox will cause no more anxiety than those who first had this illness and that George will escape altogether. Dr. Perides should call, or any other person who wishes to see her [cf. items 20 and 21]. She was in town all day yesterday, having Miss Rutherford alter two dresses now too large and saying goodbye to the Parkers while Mrs. Ruskin visited Mary Bolding, who has had a son. Dining with the Oldfields, she met the five daughters between 17 and 25--very nice girls, highly educated. John has spent today at the B. M. and she has been busy practicing, reading architecture, drawing, and working in her garden, which Mrs. Ruskin says does her great credit. Mr. Wardle, Mr. Harrison, Mr. De [Rebandg?] and Mr. Runsiman [i.e., Mr. Runciman?] are expected to dinner. Anne comes up to dress her every day with greatest care, reciting John's virtues and sticking pins in the wrong places. Forgetting that this was now her room, Mr. Runsuman [sic] opened the door while she was washing her face. Everyone says that Mr. Ruskin "is looking so well and that they always thought he would be all right when he had a wife"; (2) she hopes her father is recovering his good spirits. She is glad Prizie [Mr. Tasker] was at the party. "I never would have been anything to compare so happy or so comfortable with him as I am with John and I am happier every day [etc., as published]"; (3) the other day Mrs. Ruskin gave her a beautiful small white Indian shawl which Miss Rutherford admired "excessively." She would always like to send anything her mother wants.