Autograph letter signed : Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, to her mother, 1848 June 28.

Saying yesterday she was sorry to leave Dover. In the evening she and John walked up to the Castle, to be caught in the rain and joined by a young officer of the 46th Regiment who took them to his room and then showed them the fortifications. Letters now should be addressed to Henry Acland, Oxford. As to their plans: returning to London, Mr. Ruskin found a few cards, one from the Marchioness of Lansdoune for a reception which he desires them to attend, tomorrow night. She does not know how Miss Rutherford can get ready the new dress which Mrs. Ruskin thought she would need and is giving her, or how Miss Rutherford "will get it down since the house at Denmark Hill is turned topsy turvey" [?]. They are going to stay at the Stevens Hotel, Bond Street, and will then go to Reading to see Miss Mitford, and on Saturday to Oxford, not knowing how long they will remain there. "John is sorry we cannot remain quietly & so am I for I liked Dover very much but we must go to these places and I daresay we shall enjoy them very much when we are there." Mrs. Ruskin is reading about the dreadful Paris battle, which loss of 15,000 lives. This splendid hotel, which used to be full of people going and coming from France, is now almost empty. Mr. Ruskin returns from London at three and will stay here for a fortnight.