RUSKIN'S ADVICE TO CHESTERFIELD
- • - A SCANDALOUS HOAX.-
To T'HE Enrros OF THE ." GLOBE." -
Sui,—The letter you quote in your last night's -issue as having been sent by _me to the secretary of the Art School at Chesterfield is in impudent hoax from beginning to end, and you will oblige me'by letting this be known as soon as poSsible.—T am. Sir, Your Herne Hill, S.E.
November. 13.
The following also appeared in the Globe :- MR. ItustErri has, says the Sheffield Telegraph, supplied an appro- priate concluding chapter to the history of the forged Chesterfield letter. Writing to Mr. B. Douglas, he says he "was qUito sorry to disclaim the Chesterfield letter, it 'Was such a taaty 'dish Of mince from things I had to my own notion said in a useful way enough, so that there, was no wonder it succeeded generally. If only the good British public Would take half the interest in any half page of my real writings—some thirty volumes of which now lie open to them—which -they have done in these squibs upon them, I should be evermore grateful to the composer of the 'famous
(as I am proud to see it styled) Chesterfield letter.'" _ :
—I am, Sir, &e., . A. P. TnorrEn...
Greystones, Teffont, Salisbury.
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