TC-HTW, 27 April. Addr: Engineer's Office / East and West India Docks (the name in TC's hand, the rest in John Ruskin's). PM: 1 May 1857. Pbd: The Bookman 56 (1919): 130. TC had forgotten Wake's address and sent it to Ruskin for forwarding. TC's brief message is on the inner flap of the envelope.

1. The envelope contained clippings, sent to TC by Edward Everett (1794–1865), of a report in the Boston Daily Courier,10 April, of Everett's presentation of the tithe book of Ecton parish (see TC to HTW, 19 Dec. 1854) to the Massachusetts Historical Society at a ceremony inaugurating the bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin outside City Hall, Boston, 9 April. TC wrote on the clippings (now in Boston Public Library with MS C.1.30) before sending them to Wake: “Boston (N. Eng) recd. April 25—T. C.” (The Bookman 56:130).