Letter from Laurence J. Hilliard [Ruskin’s secretary] to George Maw

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Scope & content: Written from Brantwood, Coniston, Ambleside, on behalf of John Ruskin. Manuscript

He acknowledges receipt of Maw’s letter to Ruskin and the four tiles, three of which arrived unharmed; Ruskin has been seriously ill from overwork and is unable to attend to his correspondence; he thinks Ruskin will not approve of the tiles, as he dislikes a material being made to look like another; he remembers Maw’s beautiful plates of crocuses and is glad to hear the work is near completion; he has drawn many flowers from an artistic point of view; he admires the engraving of Maw’s house greatly, and would like to see it one day