Autograph letter signed : Boulogne, to John Ruskin, [1864] May 27.

Introducing Mr. Gretton, a pianist and music teacher, who is coming to England; asking if he could hear him "... play some day you could judge if his music would be likely to be admired at Winnington. They are Catholics and most devout ones, I have never met with any family who do so much good among the poor on such slender means as they do. So that if you can kindly give him any patronage that will help to make his music more known you will render a service to me of the most simplehearted and charitable of men. They have for years led so retired a life here, that they now know nothing of the world and I fear will find themselves sadly out of their element in a London season. Though they are both gentlefolks and of good family."