[Rarebooks] FS: John Ruskin Letter to His Father's Clerk: "nature outTurners Turner"

[Charles Agvent]

RUSKIN, John. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. n.p., n.d.. A 1-1/2-page 
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "J Ruskin" on both sides of a 4-1/2" x 7" sheet 
of plain paper addressed to Henry Watson, his father's longtime clerk of 
confidence. In full: "Many thanks for the extract. I am sure the 
description of the scene is true, and it must have been very lovely, but 
there is no need to go to Siberia to see pretty things, and it is hard 
upon me to be called upon by the author to 'acknowledge' what I have 
been asserting as lovely as I could these twenty years -- namely that 
nature outTurners Turner -- But I'm glad that people begin to think of 
Turner and me in fine scenery." With the original envelope addressed in 
Ruskin's hand. Creasing from mailing. About Fine.

"In above describing my father's counting house, I said the door was 
opened by a latch pulled by the head clerk. This head clerk, or, putting 
it more modestly, topmost of two clerks, Henry Watson, was a person of 
much import in my father's life and mine; import which, I perceive, 
looking back, to have been as in many respects tender and fortunate, yet 
in others extremely doleful, both to us and himself" (RUSKIN, John. 
PRAETERITA, Chapter X, pages 170-71; from THE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN, 
Volume 35). (#020028)        $1,250

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