Autograph letter signed : [London], to Margaret Alexis Bell, [1863 June 30].

Concerning a party the previous evening at which she had seen John Ruskin; writing of the state of Ruskin's health and his purchase of part of a mountain in Switzerland: "The Savoyards celebrated his coming into possession by firing guns all round, & hoisting flags -- & he means to take an English dairymaid there & to teach the Swiss how to grow beautiful grass, & make more of their pasture, & perhaps he will build his house there"; describing a photograph that had been taken that afternoon in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's garden of Rossetti and Ruskin: "Rossetti with him, leaning on his arm, a truth telling position for Rossetti, & he knew it, & Mr Ruskin loves him for it, tho' he says Rossetti also knows how well his own power & genius would have raised & supported him, without his helping him"; mentioning that Holman Hunt was also at the party; writing that she is expecting her brother Charles any minute, and that she has not made up her mind about when to return home; discussing other individuals she will be seeing in London, including Thomas Carlyle; asking to be sent the picture of "the Shell & Chrysoprase Mr Ruskin did", since she would like finish making a copy of it.