Ruskin (John) Autograph Letter signed to "[W. B.] Pullar", 1p. with conjugate blank, Corpus Christie College, Oxford, 22nd March with "1875" beside in another hand in pencil, "Many thanks for both your kind notes. I am better but must write and think as little as may be for some time the lightest winter having defeated all vital power in me, and I didn’t want to look at your ?notes a ?woeful subject just now. You can chiefly help me by cheerfulness and patience. I am at work ?mainly on rocks and flowers and I think you … had better think less of Peter & ?Seclus and more of corn and figs – and other Sea green subjects", some spotting; another Autograph Letter signed from Ruskin to "My dear Sir", 1p. with conjugate blank, Brantwood, Coniston, n.d., "Your work seems to me very pretty & good – but I am entirely unable to criticise or even read, poetry – it is wholly out of my way", both letters with folds, the first tipped in and the second loosely inserted into a reprint of Sesame and Lilies (1900).

⁂ Three other letters from Ruskin to W.B. Pullar are published in The Works of John Ruskin, ed. Cook & Wedderburn, vol. 37, 1909.

Provenance: By descent to the present owners.