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staying with
Mrs. Edward Cropper, Lord Denman's daughter.
I want you to tell Aunt Mary that Mr. Ruskin lives with his father at a place called Denmark Hill, Camberwell.
He has told me that the gallery of Turner pictures there is open to me or my friends at any time of the day or night.
Both young and old Mr. Ruskin are fine fellows, sociable and hearty, and will cordially welcome any of my friends who desire to look at their pictures.
I write in haste, as I must be aboard the ship tomorrow at eight o'clock. So good-by, my dear girls, from your ever affectionate mother.
Her last letter written before sailing was to Lady Byron, and serves to show how warm an intimacy had sprung up between them.
It was as follows:--
June 5, 1857.
Dear friend,--I left you with a strange sort of yearning, throbbing feeling — you make me feel quite as I did years ago, a sort of girlishness quite odd for me. I have felt a strange longing to send you something.
Don't smile when you see what it turns out to be. I have a weakness for your pretty Parian things; it is one of my own home peculiarities to have strong passions for pretty
tea-cups and other little matters for my own quiet meals, when, as often happens, I am too unwell to join the family.
So I send you a cup made of primroses, a funny little pitcher, quite large enough for cream, and a little vase for violets and primroses — which will be lovely together — and when
