1876. £ s. d. April 16. Balance 1511 10 1 May 1. Half-year’s Stipend of Slade Professorship 179 0 0 ---------- 1690 10 1 464 11 0 ----------- Balance, May 16th £1225 19 1 April 20 and 30. Self 200 0 0 20. Downs 50 0 0 22. Photographs (Leucothea and Lippi) 16 5 0 25. Tailor’s Account 33 6 0 May 1. Oxford Secretary 100 0 0 1. Raffaelle for May and June 15 0 0 15. Burgess 50 0 0 ---------- £464 11 0 III. “Hastings, May 15. “My dear Ruskin,—I enclose two extracts, cut from the same day’s paper, which contain so grimly humorous a parallel between the ways in which the ‘Protestant Church’ and ‘the world’ are engaged in ‘obliterating all traces of the Virgin Mary,’ that I thought you might possibly use them in ‘Fors’ or elsewhere. “Yours affectionately, “C. Patmore.” (The following are the two extracts. Before giving them, I must reply to my greatly honoured and loved friend, that both the Bristol destroyers of images and New York destroyers of humanity, are simply—Lost Sheep of the great Catholic Church; account of whom will be required at her hand.)