I - LETTERS ON “ACADEMY NOTES”

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Dear Mr. Smith,—I believe Spottiswoode must have kept some of their men at home to finish this. I am very much obliged to them, and should like the printers who stayed in to do it to have half-a-crown each, from me, for a holiday present. Will you kindly give orders to that effect. The proofs now sent back must be carefully revised by the press-corrector —but I don't want to see another revise: so the moment they are ready, let the thing be printed off, and sold forthwith as near the doors of the Academy as may be.

Please send a copy of the pamphlet, the moment you have any ready, to Mr. J. F. Lewis; Mr. G. Richmond; Miss A. F. Mutrie; Mr. D. G. Rossetti (14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars Bridge); Mr. William Rossetti, same address; Miss Heaton, 16 Beaumont St., Cavendish Square; Dr. Acland, Oxford; and Mr. Harrison;—all with my compliments.

Send to nobody else—of course Mr. Williams will have one.

I send to town that all may be ready for early press to-morrow morning.

Most truly yours,

J. Ruskin.

Arthur Severn's Herne Hill,

London, S.E., 1875

My dear Ellis,—So many thanks for your kind letter, and sending to Birmingham, etc. Yes, please get me that Italian economic book.

I must keep the publishing of the Notes with Allen, not to break the public impression of my obstinacy; but if you would endure the trouble and petty worries of letting them be sold from your counter, you should have them exclusively in London. No—I can't say that, neither—for if other booksellers wanted them I could not refuse; but I will take no measures for regular sale except from your counter,—if you will allow it.