Miscellaneous Letters I

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Letter to Marcus Huish [art dealer] enquiring about the price of paintings by Edward Frére [a painter whose work was collected by Ruskin's father], with the suggestion that he might be prepared to sell some of these pictures in order to buy a painting described as the Staffa [presumably Staffa, Fingal's Cave, 1831] by Turner.

Dated at Herne Hill [Surrey].