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"I can't send my drawings to the Faraday night [Michael Faraday lectured at the Royal Institution on 3 May 1861] -- Fashionable people are a mere mob -- Send 'em acorns if you like -- not pearls." In a postscript, Ruskin writes: "When you come to town as you first intended it will do nicely." [Date provided by Surtees: ? April 1861]

"We will see about your private ticket [presumably for the Royal Academy]. I send you Turner -- with sincerest thanks. -- You can't conceive how worried I am just now about dozens of things -- & and can't call nor see people -- anyhow. I shall have to run out of town again I fancy.". In a postscript, Ruskin writes: "My main work is in arranging the Cambridge collection of sketches & very difficult." [On May 28, 1861, Ruskin presented 25 Turner watercolors to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.] [Date provided by Surtees: ? End of April 1861]

Ruskin has sent Heaton four duplications of the signatures from letters he has sent to his father (these are the four sheets additional to the primary, folded letter). Ruskin describes a "leaf drawing" (of Alpine rose leaves) which contains qualities not found in the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, "namely lusciousness and (not terrific) gloom" which Ruskin describes as more "Correggioesque than most modern work." Ruskin complains that he could have written 50 guineas worth of writing in the time it took him to find the work, which is worth no more than £20. Ruskin says he cannot bring himself to sell the work for more than it is worth but refuses to sell it for less than it cost him in lost writing time and thus concludes that he cannot sell it. Ruskin tells Heaton he has no desire to give his work to charity and that he always thought he would exchange any pieces which became valuable for other artworks and that he might one day complete such an exchange for the "leaves" with Heaton. Ruskin tells Heaton he will be taking on no further speaking arrangements after his lecture about French Architecture to the Ecclesiological Society. Heaton says that he does not think the society admits women but that he will tell Heaton if they do. Ruskin thanks Heaton for her account of Adelaide Ironside, whom Heaton has recently met. Ruskin tells Heaton that William Morris's The Defence of Guenevere is published by Bell & Daldy. The four additional signature sheets all contain the following proceeded by Ruskin's signature: "Dearest love to my Mother Every my dearest Father Your most aff. son." [Date provided by Surtees: Beginning of June 1861]

"Ive written to somebody who will send you tickets for anything at the college ticketable [presumably the Working Men's College]. I shall not be saying or doing anything anywhere these ten years." [Date provided by postmark: 22 May 1861]

"I'm so sorry -- but not even the Alpine rose drawing will be available just now for we want all we can get on the walls to replace the Turners which are to be shut up during great exhibition [the South Kensington International Exhibition] to avoid bore of various sorts -- and I can't part with any of my late sketches, which are all unfinished and good for nothing. I'm to talk nowhere -- and can talk about nothing -- but I'll try and answer any questions you have for me before I leave town -- love to Mr Richmond -- delighted to see him tomorrow." [Date provided by Surtees: Probably end of April 1862]

Ruskin says he "has nothing to say for [himself] so [he] won't say it." Ruskin tells Heaton that prior to receiving her letter saying she did not like Edward Burne-Jones's work, Ruskin had asked the artist for some works for her, including a piece for twenty guineas. Ruskin states that Jones will not give him any of the works if he thinks the recipient doesn't really want them but that he "depends" upon the sale and so Ruskin asks if Heaton could take one for the time being. Ruskin says that Jones is only likely to show his works to close friends so Ruskin had to choose a work on Heaton's behalf but promises to "clear [Heaton] of the picture in due time.". [Date provided by Surtees: First part of May 1862]

Ruskin tells Heaton that he's feeling better but still unable to talk to anyone. He tells Heaton he has her Hughes work (That was a Piedmontese) and praises the work as "exquisitely beautiful in the face of the woman." Ruskin vows to never criticize work by a living man but goes on to say that Hughes has not been true to Elizabeth Barret Browning's poem A Court Lady by failing to make the subject's dress grand enough. Ruskin admonishes Heaton for being "absurd to think [she] knew better about literature or anything else than Rossetti." Ruskin says he will "relieve" Heaton of her Jones work and suggests that he will buy her a "pretty" picture of Jones's which the artist produced to raise money for "Manchester starving people." Ruskin enquires whether Turner's Ehrenbreitstein is at the home of Thomas Richmond and admits he has "a plan about it -- can't tell [Heaton] to day.". [Date provided by Surtees: Probably latter half of November 1862]

"I carried off the Dream (Rossetti's Dante's Dream) from Chelsea only two day's before my father's death; so that my promise to Rossetti to photograph it was ... roughly hindered -- I shall be glad that you undertake it -- as I was afraid to take it out of the frame -- you shall have it in a week -- and never let it out of your power more" (Ruskin's father died 3 March 1864 and this letter has a mourning border.) Ruskin goes on to thank Heaton for her offer of Turner's Cestius but admits that he cannot make use of it at the moment - he will ask her for it if he would like it in the future. [Date provided by Surtees: c. May 1st 1864]

"Can you favour us at six, Wednesday 1 June with your company to dinner and oblige?"

"I shall be delighted to look at the Mont Blancs, for my own personal pleasure no less than for all other reasons, but you don't tell me the name of the artist, nor when I can see them. I am coming to see you very soon bringing Miss Heaton's glorious drawing with me -- Aldbourough. I hope you will enjoy it -- when you can look at it constantly and easily. Love to you all. I am sincerely sorry to hear of your continued illness."