Letter to Tom [Thomas Richmond junior, 1802-1874, portrait painter and brother of the more successful portrait painter George Richmond, 1809-1896] expressing his gratitude for Tom's assistance with the purchase of Brantwood [Ruskin's house in Coniston, Lancashire] and reassuring Tom that the details he has mentioned in his letter are satisfactory. Ruskin bemoans his mother's ill health and refusal to see a doctor, comments that Joanna [Joan Agnew, Ruskin's second cousin once removed and his mother's companion throughout her ill health] is well and states that Joanna, her husband [Arthur Severn] and Ruskin himself will all be coming in November '...;see the last of the leaves.' Ruskin also mentions the acreage of heath accompanying his property and says he wants it to be 'a sanctuary for all innocent living things that care to lodge there.'
Dated at Denmark Hill [London].