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O./4.54/53
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Letter from John Ruskin to 'The Translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar'
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- 2 Sept. 1863 (Creation)
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'My dear & very dear Sir.
I do not know in the least who you are, but I do with all my soul pray you to find and translate some more of Omar Khayyam for us: I never did till this day read anything so glorious to my mind as this poem - (10th, 11th, 12th pages, if one were to choose) - and that & this is all I can say about it. More - more - please more. - & that I am ever
Gratefully & respectfully Yours,
J. Ruskin'
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Tipped into O.4.54.
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Originally enclosed with O./4.54/52.
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Published in Ryals, et al. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Duke-Edinburgh ed., Duke University Press, 1970-. Transcriptions available online at Carlyle Letters Online (CLO): https://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/