In Praeterita, Ruskin says he removed  two little pencillings from Canterbury south porch and central tower,  which he gave  to Miss Gale, of Burgate House, Canterbury; the remnants of the book itself to Mrs. Talbot, of Tyn-y-Ffynon, Barmouth, both very dear friends  (Works, 35:78). He did not give the entire remnants to Fanny Talbot, however, for  among the early drawings left for gift to Joanie [Severn] are all those made--the first ever made from nature--at Sevenoaks, Tunbridge, Canterbury, and Dover  (Works, 35:467). In  John Ruskin’s First Sketchbook,  James S. Dearden notes that Miss Gale’s Canterbury drawings were signed and dated by Ruskin 15 January 1880, when he must have given them away. The discrepancy in Praeterita concerning the remainder of the sketchbook is explained by Ruskin’s letter of 6 January 1885 to Fanny Talbot, quoted by Dearden:
	by way of a beginning of rubbish I’ve sent you the cover and most of the sheets of my first sketch book, 1831--when I was 12. It has some pencil scrawls at Dover and Canterbury and much MS of my proposed Mineralogical Dictionary! I have taken out some leaves which I mean to frame to preserve, referring to the book only as given to you. (Facets, 88)
	The removed sketches,  first ever made from nature,  remained at Brantwood until the dispersal sales of 1931.
	The Talbot book (Bem ?) was acquired by J. H. Whitehouse at some point between 1919 and 1923 (RBB 38). The Gale drawings (Bem 1188-89). . . . The Severn drawings were divided among different lots at the 1931 Brantwood dispersal sales. Two, the Battle Abbey and Tunbridge Wells drawings, were bought for Charles Goodspeed. They are not listed in Goodspeed, Cat., which begins with drawings of 1833