Do you advise that, you, Mr.Ruskin?
He has not given up the drawing neither.

Ah! but there is a weight beyond the post, whatever your goodness may bear, and I must leave a little space for Robert.
May God bless you, my dear friend! Dare I say it?
it _came_.
Affectionately yours always, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.
* * * * * _Robert Browning to Mr.Ruskin_ I am to say something, dear Ruskin; it shall be only the best of wishes for this and all other years; go on again like the noble and dear man you are to us all, and especially to us two out of them all.

Whenever I chance on an extract, a report, it lights up the dull newspaper stuff wrapt round it and makes me glad at heart and clearer in head.

We, for our part, have just sent off a corrected 'Aurora Leigh,' which is the better for a deal of pains, we hope, and my wife deserves.

There will be a portrait from a photograph done at Havre without retouching--good, I think.