MY DEAR MR. MALLESON,--You must make no public announcement of any paper by me. I am not able to count on my powers of mind for an hour; and will absolutely take no responsibility. What I do send you--if anything--will be in the form of a series of short letters to yourself, of which you have already the first: This the second for the sake of continuing the order unbroken contains the next following question which I should like to ask. If when the sequence of letters is in your possession you like to read any part or parts of them as a subject of discussion at your afternoon meeting, I shall be glad and grateful. Ever faithfully yours, J. RUSKIN. 2. [_Undated._] I am so ashamed of keeping R.'s book--but it's impossible for me to look at it properly till I have done my lecture, so much must be left undone of it anyhow * * * Yes--you were glad to find we were at one in many thoughts. So was I. But we are not yet, you know, at one in our _sight_ of this world and the dark ways of it. I hope to have you for a St. George's soldier one day. 3. _23rd July, 1879._ Thanks for your note and your kind feelings. But you ought to know more about me. I profess to be a teacher; as you profess also. But we teach on totally different methods. _You_ believe what you wish to believe; teach that it is wicked to doubt it, and remain at rest and in much self-satisfaction. _I_ believe what I find to be true, whether I like or dislike it. And I teach other people that the chief of all wickednesses is to tell lies in God's service, and to disgrace our Master and destroy His sheep as _involuntary_ Wolves. _I_, therefore, am in perpetual effort to learn and discern--in perpetual Unrest and Dissatisfaction with myself. But it would simply require you to do twenty years of such hard work as I have done before you could in any true sense speak a word to me on such matters. You could not use a word in my sense. It would always mean to you something different.