An Original Hand Written and Signed Letter by Writer John Ruskin to possibly Constance F. Gordon-Cumming. From John Ruskin, dated 20 April 1873, enclosing a cheque (not present) to an unidentified woman (possibly Constance F. Gordon-Cumming, 1837-1924, travel writer and painter, fragment of a letter pinned to verso), 'I have ordered a book I am periodically busy on to be sent to you (there are incidental notices of women's work in it)...', John Ruskin 1819 – 1900 was a polymath, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. From a autograph book kept by A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt & Son in 1875, the world's first literary agents. Size of letter is 150mm x 100mm. Good condition. Folding centre crease.