Autograph letter signed : Dover, to her mother, 1848 June 22.

Saying various notes and letters have been received with thanks. She is glad that the ham [cf. item 24] "proved so acceptable and Mrs. Ruskin was quite delighted to think it arrived á propos of the marriage dinner." She is obliged to her mother for getting the table clothes and napkins, and she was quite right to use the table clothes: would she have them hemmed and marked as she does her own? But for the present, order nothing else: as Mrs. Ruskin says, eventually everything she has will be theirs, and whenever the continent is reachable, they will be abroad, "so that we think it advisable to have as few things as possible." Perhaps when they are in their own house, her mother will kindly get them "anything you could get better for us." She encloses an unusually amusing note John received from a person totally unknown: he receives many such. With Anne, she enjoyed a delightful bath, from a bathing machine, in the smooth and lukewarm sea. Then she and John called on one of his old Oxford friends, "a Mr. Parr Philipps who had invited us to dine with his wife and he on Friday." Their enjoyment of the band and the gaily dressed people. She is very glad to hear such good accounts of George, who, a friend wrote, is much improved "in appearance and manners." Gossip about Perth doings, with inquiries about Prizie. John has just read her a letter to an Irish Doctor "which is a stunner & would make you laugh it is a second edition of Lindley Murray in defense of his English." She is sorry Aunt Jessie is not well.