Discussion
Travel
	As mentioned in connection with this poem’s <link>date</link>, the family deferred a planned spring 1826 journey to Scotland certainly owing to John James’s business affairs but possibly also owing to the illness of Ruskin’s cousin, James Richardson. James grew increasingly consumptive while living at Herne Hill, so in April 1826 he was taken back to his family home in Perth, Scotland, where he died in May (see “On Scotland,” another poem possibly connected with his death). The Ruskins would have been wary of exposing their son to the disease and, perhaps, to the grieving until later in the year.
	The family finally embarked on their holiday in summer 1826, their itinerary including the Lake District. Either they headed for the Lakes in the summer and returned in the fall through Perth, or they started for Perth in late summer and returned through the Lakes (Tour to the Lakes 7). (The summer travel possibly also included a week in June at Hastings; see “Harry and Lucy . . . vol. 1,” and “On Scotland”).
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