Autograph letter signed : Salisbury, to her mother, 1848 July 30.

Saying that this afternoon John leaves his room to dine with them for the first time in a week. Tomorrow they leave for Winchester and on Wednesday return to Denmark Hill, sacrificing their visit with Lady Trevelyan because John fears he might again become ill. They have got a three-year lease on a house--31 Park Street, Grosvenor Square, Hyde Park, for which Mr. Ruskin will pay the £300 ground rent, and they the rent of £200. The house is most suitable--small, elegantly furnished, and in the most fashionable place of London. They are three doors from Lady Davy, and overlook the park and the gardens of the Marquis of Westminster's Grosvenor House. It is "a nice little box of a place," six stories high, with just about one room to a floor--downstairs the kitchen, with very complete conveniences; a breakfast and dining room which open into each other; a small drawing room, its shape being the only thing she and John object to; a large library with a little conservatory; their bedroom and sleeping room; another nice bedroom--which George can occupy--and servants' rooms. Mrs. Ruskin has ordered a [guest?] book for her. If they wish, they can soon be settled there after returning to London, but if John continues well, they will probably go away for another month.