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	This bibliography omits description of the early letters in MS XI that contain no poetry, letters that will be found adequately described in RFL. Here, rather, are described only the items in MS XI that are listed chronologically in part 2. The items that were not originally letters are described for the first time; poetry contained in letters will be found described in RFL but are also listed here for the sake of consistency (and portions of text of those letters containing poetry, portions that were omitted in RFL, are provided). Only physical description is given here, whereas inscriptions regarding dating are relegated to the individual entries in part 2.
	a) No. 11: 20 × 13-cm single sheet, pencil.
	b) Nos. 22-23: 20.5 × 12.2-cm folded sheet, written in pencil on three sides, with  To my Papa  on address side.
	c) No. 33: 20 × 12.5-cm folded sheet, written in ink on three sides, with address side blank.
	d) Nos. 38 (2 stanzas) and 39 (3 stanzas) in 21 February 1829 letter (described RFL 177). No. 38 and no. 39 (RFL 179-80) are arranged side by side, with a verticle bar between them.
	e) No. 39 (4 stanzas) in 10 March 1829 letter (described RFL 191). As Burd remarks (RFL 194 n. 1), Margaret’s penciled note on this letter was erased; however, one part remains barely legible, written below the stanzas of no. 39. Apparently, she is responding to Ruskin’s remark that the psalm (no. 39)  is the same as I wrote it at first  I tried to alter it but I found I could make nothing better of it  (RFL 194). The omissions are owing to the writing having been too thoroughly erased for a secure reading:

The cause of Johns [ . . . (?)] is that in copying from his slate he leaves out the [ . . . (?)] to write on his slate as fast as his hand can go  he does not seem to hesitate a minute  when it is full put it on paper without alteration [ . . . (?), remainder obscured by binding of letter]

This letter is followed by the 10 May 1829 letter (no poetry).
	f) No. 108 in  March 6th 1830  letter (described RFL 233, and date corrected to 1831, although Burd does not make clear that the  1830  error was originally Ruskin’s on the letter itself). Burd provides part of Margaret’s postscript, noting that a preceding eleven lines have been erased (RFL 235). The erased lines are visible enough for the following conjectural reading:

The house you wrote me to look at is the very house on the left hand side of the ... ...  to Norwood which you have always so much admired  it belongs to M[ . . . Bramah(?)] they will not let it for less than [8(?)] weeks [terms(?)] with 3 cows & garden  12 guineas a week without use of vegetables & cows  I left our address and time we wanted it for and Mrs [Bramah(?)] has just called  I think the [ . . . (?)] more than we need [ . . . (?)] but I shall be glad to do what you wish  of course the milk & vegetables are worth a good deal

For further discussion about renting this house, see RFL 246, 247 n. 3, 249. This letter is followed by letters of 21 February (one by John and one by Margaret), 28 February, 14 March, 21 March 1831 (no poetry).
	g) No. 118a: 20 × 12.5-cm folded sheet, written in ink on two sides, with recto of address leaf blank, and verso of address leaf inscribed  To my Papa / from J. R. / aged 12¼.  See MS IA,  Content,  i, for a probable missing companion folded sheet for this manuscript. Followed by letters of 14 January, 20 February, 27 February, 4 March 1832; 15 January 1833 (no poetry).
	h) No. 180, prose section on Chamouni, as printed in Works, 2:380-82. This is written in Margaret Ruskin’s hand in ink on the 20 × 25.5-cm, blue paper that Ruskin used for letters after 1832. The editors of the Library Edition are correct that the signature  J. R. / fragment from a Journal / 1833  is in John James’s hand. The date may apply either to the Continental journey or to the manuscript itself. Followed by letter of 22 February 1834 (no poetry).
	i) No. 189 in 10 March 1834 letter (described RFL 282; Burd does not mention a penciled postscript by Margaret, but it has in any case been erased beyond legibility).
	j) No. 194: 17.5 × 22-cm booklet, six leaves, in ink. Its binding into MS XI makes it impossible to determine whether the booklet is sewn but presumably so; otherwise, the middle signatures would have slipped out. On 1r,  To My Father / Jan.y 1.st. / 1835.  1v, blank. 2r-6r, poem (17 stanzas). 6v, in John James’s hand,  Johns Poem / 1 Jany 1835. 
	k) No. 198 in 18 February 1835 letter (described RFL 295). Burd omits Margaret’s penciled note at the top of the first page and between columns on other pages: 

My Dearest John I have your two last letters and thank you My own love for them   I do I must think you have no small regard even for me and our boy must be loved I think by all who know any thing of him and how much then by his father thank god he has at present no cough and I might almost say the same of myself--
	Mr Hopkenson [sic, spelled  Hopkinson  elsewhere in RFL] sent out a fly yesterday [see RFL 304] which is pronoun[ced . . . (?), rest of line obscured by binding of letter] Mary too says it looks very respectable you know I am no judge
	I will write more particularly in my next  I do not like to trouble you either to read or rub out pencil  I am much gratified by your attention about this same carriage  Mr Telford called this morning in his way to town  I was not up  Mary saw him but could not make him [Hear(?)]  this of Johns was written without copy [He cries must send by next afternoons(?)]
		[ . . . (?)] My Dearest more than Dear[ . . . (?)] yours MR
	l) No. 199 in 11 March 1835 letter (described RFL 308).
	m) Nos. 201 and 200 (fair-copied in that order): 19 × 25-cm booklet, four leaves, with pp. 1-7 numbered by Ruskin, written in ink. Its binding into MS XI makes it impossible to determine whether the booklet is sewn. Pp. 1-3,  My Dearest Father.  (no. 201); pp. 3-7, no. 200. On address leaf (unnumbered p. 8)  To my Father / On his Birthday / May 10th. 1835 / [and in John James’s hand,] Domecqs Vineyards. 
	n) No. 224 in 27 February 1836 letter (described RFL 321). Followed by letters of 5 and 10 March, and two other letters of March 1835 (see RFL 335-45; each of these is numbered at the top [by John James?], i.e.,  No. 1,   No. 2,   No. 3,  and  No. 4 ). Next follow letters of 19, 25, and 29 March, and 20 and 24 December 1836.

	o) No. 247 in 30 December 1836 letter (described RFL 397). Followed by letters of 10 January, 26 February, and 15 March 1837.
	p) No. 254: a 20 × 25-cm leaf plus a 20 × 14.5-cm leaf, which together probably form a folded sheet, the second leaf having been cut across the bottom--the binding obscuring whether the leaves are attached. On address side,  My Dear Father / May 10.th 1837.  Notated by John James on address side,  Johns poetical Epistle / on my Birthday / 1837 / from Oxford,  and on first page,  Birthday.  Followed by letter of 19 January 1838.
	q) No. 205: two 20 × 25-cm leaves, probably forming a folded sheet, but the binding obscures whether the leaves are attached. Obviously a rough draft, the text is closely written in varying tints of ink and with different pens, probably reflecting successive stages of composition between July and October during the 1835 tour of the Continent. The prose letter that Ruskin started to write on 1r is scored through and a verse letter started beneath it. The verse continues, in very densely packed single columns, to the very bottom of 2v. The concluding lines are wrapped around to the top of 1r, where they are inserted between the scored-through lines of the original prose letter. On 4r, Ruskin also scored through lines of Greek (perhaps taken from Thucydides, whom Ruskin mentions studying in the poem). This was probably a prior use of the sheet, since the Greek runs upside down to the poem’s text.
	No. 205 is followed by Ruskin’s letter to J. C. Loudon of September 1838 (printed Works, 36:15-17); Ruskin’s letters to his father of 21 August 1841 (RFL 678-79), and of 5 December 1839 (RFL 631-32); Margaret’s letter to John James of 5 December 1839 (RFL 632-33); a copy in John James’s hand of Ruskin’s 1 August 1842 letter to W. L. Brown (printed in part, Works, 2:223n.); Ruskin’s letter to his father of 3 August 1841 (RFL 677-78); a copy in Margaret’s hand of two letters (apparently both copied at the same time), one of 20 December 1843 to W. L. Brown (Works, 4:390-93), and the second of 10 March 1844 to Osborne Gordon (Works, 3:665-67).
	The following sections of this volume, containing letters from 1847 and afterward, are not listed here, as being beyond the scope of this bibliography.