Autograph letter signed : Salisbury, to her mother, 1848 July 20.

Published pp. 117-118, with two omissions: (1) [picture of cathedral on letterhead used as basis of opening description] the crosses show where John has been sketching, and she too, for two or three hours a day at the beginning of the week. Yesterday they visited Wilton House, home of the Earl of Pembroke, which is supposed to contain the best collection of Italian pictures in England, though John says they are almost all poor copies. They saw the furniture uncovered and the tables laid out for Lady Pembroke's annual entertainment of 300 schoolchildren. The English nobility are really princely people. Lord Pembroke's son, the Hon. Sydney Herbert, has spent 100,000 on a church at Wilton, built after Italian designs, which John said "made him quite sick as Babies before breakfast for you must know Mrs. Acland brought her child into the room every morning and John said it made him sick every morning": the idea of putting up imitations of Venetian and Florentine churches here was too bold. He grumbled and Mrs. Ruskin lectured him all the way home, despite the noise of the carriage, "which amused me very much"; (2) today Mr. and Mrs. Herbert and Mr. Herbert's sisters helped entertain the schoolchildren. Mr. Herbert has 40,000 a year, and his brother, Lord Pembroke, was only left 10,000 because he ran through his money. The joy of the children and the onlookers. She wishes she had been at her mother's party, to have had a chat. Melville must be a sweet little fellow.