,,transcriber',s ,,notes --,obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected4 --,in the original book1 captions regarding color plates are placed on the page before illustrations2 captions have been relocated after pictures4 --,the caret character is used to represent superscripts1 e4g4 ,m,r4 --,bold text has been rendered as bold text4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,illustration3 ,,off ,,to ,,the ,,village4 ,from a large water-colour drawing in the possession of ,her ,grace the ,duchess of ,bedford4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,by ,m4 ,h4 ,,spielmann ,,and ,g4 ,s4 ,,layard ,illustration3 ,,from ,,lady ,,victoria ,,herbert',s ,,book-,,plate ,,london ,,adam ,,and ,,charles ,,black #aije ,,this ,,book ,a ,,tribute ,,to ,,the ,,memory ,,of ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,is ,,dedicated ,,to ,,john ,,greenaway ,,her ,,only ,,brother ,,and ,,life-,,long ,,companion ,illustration3 ,,handwriting 8,k4,g0 ,nov4 vi4 #aija4 ,farewell2 ,kind heart4 ,and if there be ,in that unshored ,immensity1 ,child-,angels1 they will welcome thee4 ,clean-souled1 clear-eyed1 unspoiled1 discreet2 ,thou gav'st thy gifts to make ,life sweet2-- ,these shall be flowers about thy feet6 ,preface ,apart from her work1 full record of which is made in the following pages1 there was in the life of ,kate ,greenaway one outstanding feature--her friendship with ,john ,ruskin4 ,to this1 without the permission of the great critic's legal representatives1 no sort of justice could have been done4 ,it is therefore our first duty and pleasure to put on record our great indebtedness to ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn1 ,mr4 ,alexander ,wedderburn1 ,k4,c41 and ,mr4 ,george ,allen1 for their liberality in allowing us to make copious extracts from ,ruskin's side of the vigorous correspondence which was carried on between him and ,kate ,greenaway for so many years2 this generous permission is only accompanied by the proviso that1 in accordance with the undertaking announced by the editors and publisher of the ,library ,edition of ,ruskin's complete work1 all of his published letters shall ultimately be included in that noble issue4 ,these letters have here been printed with the strictest adherence to ,ruskin's peculiar method of punctuation--long and short dashes in place of commas1 semicolons1 and the like4 ,from ,kate ,greenaway's side of the correspondence abundant drafts have also been made1 for they reveal the writer's character and method of thought better than any independent estimate could do4 ,that no violence has been done to her native modesty is proved by the following letter kindly communicated to us by ,mrs4 ,severn4 ,it was written at the time when the preparation of the ultimate ,life of ,ruskin was under discussion3-- #hth ,june #aijj4 #ci1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead1 ,n4,w4 ,my dearest ,joanie-- 444 ,i feel it is very kind of you to consider my wishes about the letters1 as ,i know of course you could do as you wished about them4 ,in the later letters1 ,i think1 there is nothing ,i should object to any one reading--in the early ones nothing ,i should mind you reading2 but there might be things in some one would feel perhaps better not published4444 ,i have a great many letters of his--one for nearly every day for three years1 but they are all of the time of my early letters1 before his great illness4 ,since--he has never written--as you will remember4 ,i should like to have any letters in the ,life1 if one is written1 that were thought desirable4 ,i am not sure the later ones of mine are much in a literary way2 but he did say some of the earlier ones #8ought to exist as long as the most beautiful of my drawings should--because they were also beautiful4' ,i tell you this because you know how great was the affection between us that you will not think it conceit4 ,i feel so honoured by it1 that ,i can only feel honoured for my name ever to appear near his4 ,my dearest love to you4 ,,katie4 ,from the facsimile letter given in the following pages1 it will be observed that ,kate ,greenaway later on developed a habit of frequently employing capital letters in unusual places4 ,these1 as a mere eccentricity1 have been corrected in transcription4 ,our gratitude--may we say the gratitude of our readers also8--is due to the several ladies and gentlemen who have supplied us with reminiscences1 correspondence1 and other information duly acknowledged in the text2 indeed1 with but one or two exceptions1 we have been favoured with the most obliging responses4 ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn1 ,lady ,maria and the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby1 ,mrs4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson1 ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson1 ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 ,mr4 ,william ,marcus ,ward1 the ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie1 ,mr4 ,edward ,jones1 ,mr4 ,ernest ,g4 ,brown1 and the late ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans1 whose death at the age of seventy-nine occurred as this book was passing through the press1 all have shown an interest and have extended a friendly help which cannot be too highly appreciated or too cordially recognised4 ,a word must be said concerning the illustrations4 ,the published works of ,kate ,greenaway are known1 and ought to be found1 in every house where children live and are loved4 ,we have therefore confined ourselves1 with a few rare and intentional exceptions1 to work quite unknown to the public1 such as early drawings of the cottage at ,rolleston where her career1 undreamed of as yet1 was being determined1 thumb-nail sketches with which she embellished her letters1 and more important drawings done for sale to picture-buyers or for presentation to friends4 ,about half a hundred have been reproduced with particular care by the #8three-colour process1' for the most part with extraordinary success1 the rest by other methods suited to the exigencies of the case4 ,for the use of the originals we are indebted to the kindness of many owners--to ,her ,grace the ,duchess of ,bedford1 to ,mr4 ,ernest ,g4 ,brown1 ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 ,mr4 ,alfred ,emmott1 ,m4,p41 ,mr4 ,w4 ,finch1 ,mr4 ,campbell ,s4 ,holberton1 ,mr4 ,charles ,p4 ,johnson1 ,mrs4 ,w4 ,levy1 the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby1 ,mr4 ,john ,riley1 ,mr4 ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,m4,p41 ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn1 ,mr4 ,henry ,silver1 the ,hon4 ,mrs4 ,w4 ,le ,poer ,trench1 ,mr4 ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,mr4 ,wm4 ,marcus ,ward1 and ,mr4 ,creeser1 as well as to ,mr4 ,john ,greenaway4 ,other illustrations come from the collections of ,miss ,evans1 ,lady ,victoria ,herbert1 ,mrs4 ,f4 ,locker-,lampson1 ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie1 ,f4,s4,a41 ,lady ,pontifex1 and ,mr4 ,b4 ,elkin ,mocatta4 ,to all of them we express our hearty thanks1 and to ,messrs4 ,cassell ,co4 our indebtedness for having permitted the publication of the border illustration with ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson's #8,home ,beauty1' the copyright of which they hold2 and to ,messrs4 ,m',caw1 ,stevenson ,orr1 ,ltd41 of ,belfast1 similar acknowledgments must be made for according their consent in respect of the three famous ,christmas cards which appear in colour4 ,our thanks are also due to ,messrs4 ,frederick ,warne ,co4 for their courtesy in allowing us to reproduce the illustrations of #8,bubbles' and #8,the ,bubble' as well as the end-papers4 ,the last-named are based upon the nursery wallpaper to which1 with the artist's permission1 the illustrations of one of her ,almanacks were adapted by ,mr4 ,david ,walker4 ,messrs4 ,warne are the present holders of the bulk of ,kate ,greenaway's published copyright work as well as of the stock of books which were originally issued by ,messrs4 ,g4 ,routledge ,sons1 and from them nearly all the books dealt with in the following pages are still to be obtained4 ,contents ,,chapter ,i ,,page ,introductory #a ,,chapter ,,ii ,early ,years3 ,birth--,autobiography of ,childhood--,first ,visit to ,rolleston--,love of ,flowers--,family ,trouble--,evening ,parties and ,entertainments #h ,,chapter ,,iii ,childhood in ,rolleston3 ,early ,reading--,adventures in ,london ,streets--,a ,community of ,dolls--,buckingham ,palace--,life in ,rolleston--,education--,brother and ,father #ba ,,chapter ,,iv ,student ,days and ,early ,success3 ,early ,promise and ,art ,classes--,south ,kensington ,prizes--,lady ,butler--,dudley ,gallery--,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie and ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward--,amateur ,theatricals--,toy-,books and ,fairy ,tales--,progress #da ,,chapter ,v #ahgg-ahgh ,the ,triumph of ,under the ,window3 ,royal ,academy--,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,edmund ,evans--,mr4 ,evans's ,colour-printing--,john ,ruskin on ,kate ,greenaway--,topo--,randolph ,caldecott1 and ,mr4 ,walter ,crane #ee ,,chapter ,,vi #ahgi-ahhj ,christmas ,cards and ,books--,h4 ,stacy ,marks1 ,r4,a41 ,john ,ruskin1 and ,frederick ,locker-,lampson #gc ,,chapter ,,vii #ahha-ahhb ,the ,empress ,frederick1 ,mrs4 ,richmond ,ritchie1 ,ruskin1 and ,mr4 ,punch--,a ,day in a ,child's ,life--,little ,ann and ,mother ,goose #ih ,,chapter ,,viii #ahhb 7continued7 and #ahhc ,the ,ruskin and ,severn ,friendship ripens--,at ,brantwood--,the ,art of ,england--,ruskin's ,advice--,kate ,greenaway's ,first ,almanack--,a ,greenaway #8,boom'--,mr4 ,austin ,dobson #aji ,,chapter ,,ix #ahhd-ahhe ,language of ,flowers--,mavor's ,spelling-,book--,dame ,wiggins of ,lee--,ruskin ,correspondence--,his ,tuition and ,plans for ,co-operation--,intimacy with ,mrs4 ,severn and her ,children #abg ,,chapter ,x #ahhe ,,and #ahhf ,the ,move to ,frognal--,ruskin3 ,letters and ,confidences1 ,praise and ,blame1 his ,illness--,mrs4 ,allingham #adb ,,chapter ,,xi #ahhg-ahij ,kate ,greenaway as a ,correspondent--,her ,letters to ,ruskin--,her ,friends--,learning ,perspective--,ruskin's ,last ,letters--,the ,pied ,piper of ,hamelin--,mrs4 ,allingham1 ,r4,w4,s4--,the ,book of ,games--,elected to the ,royal ,institute of ,painters in ,water-,colours--,paris ,exhibition--,death of ,mr4 ,john ,greenaway1 ,sr4 #afc ,,chapter ,,xii #ahia-ahie ,kate ,greenaway's ,first ,exhibition--,the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby--,almanacks--,contributions to the ,columbian ,exposition1 ,chicago--,book-plates--,lady ,maria ,ponsonby--,works ,sold--,the ,ladies' ,home ,journal--,death of ,mrs4 ,greenaway--,lady ,mayo--,brantwood again--,kate ,greenaway's ,criticism of ,modern ,art--,marie ,bashkirtseff--,friendship with ,miss ,violet ,dickinson--,religious ,opinions--,ruskin--,views on ,mr4 ,george ,meredith1 etc4 #agi ,,chapter ,,xiii #ahif-ahig ,the ,last of the ,almanacks--,opinions on ,books1 ,pictures1 the ,new ,woman1 and ,eternal ,man--,her ,defence of ,ruskin #bja ,,chapter ,,xiv #ahih-aija ,kate ,greenaway's ,third ,exhibition--,correspondence with ,john ,ruskin1 and ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel--,her ,views on ,art1 ,religion1 and ,books--,her ,oil-painting--,death of ,ruskin--,illness and ,death of ,kate ,greenaway--,posthumous ,exhibition--,the ,kate ,greenaway ,memorial #bbd ,,chapter ,,xv ,verse-writing3 ,kate ,greenaway's ,feeling for ,poetry--,problem1 ,tragedy1 and ,resignation--,charm of her ,verses for ,children--,on ,death #beg ,,chapter ,,xvi ,the ,artist3 ,a ,review and an ,estimate #bfe ,,list ,,of ,,books1 etc41 illustrated wholly or in part by ,kate ,greenaway #bhe ,,index4 #bia ,list of ,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,owner ,,of ,,original ,,page #a4 ,off to the ,village ,duchess of ,bedford ,frontispiece #b4 ,sisters ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #d #c4 ,in the ,chappells' ,cottage ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #aj at ,rolleston--,the ,kitchen #d4 ,the ,kitchen ,pump and ,old ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #ab ,cheese ,press1 ,rolleston #e4 ,winter1 #ahib ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #bj #f4 ,the ,open ,door ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #bf #g4 ,the ,chappells' ,cottage1 ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #cf ,farm1 and ,croft at ,rolleston #h4 ,thomas ,chappell 7#8,dadad'7 ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #ch #i4 ,kate ,greenaway's ,nat4 ,art ,library1 ,victoria and #db ,student-work ,albert ,museum1 ,s4 ,kensington #aj4 ,the ,elf ,ring ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #dh #aa4 ,the ,little ,model ,mrs4 ,j4 ,st4 ,g4 ,whitly #eh #ab4 #8,mary had a ,little ,lamb' ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #fb #ac4 ,bubbles3-- 7#a7 ,the ,bubble ,the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby between 7#b7 ,bubbles pp4 #fd and #fe #ad4 ,christmas ,cards ,wm4 ,marcus ,ward1 ,esq4 #gd #ae4 ,the ,little ,go-cart ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 #hj #af4 ,pink ,ribbons ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #hh #ag4 ,a ,calm in a ,teacup ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #id #ah4 ,out for a ,walk ,ernest ,g4 ,brown1 ,esq4 #ajj #ai4 #8,lucy ,locket lost her ,w4 ,finch1 ,esq4 #ajd ,pocket' #bj4 ,two ,girls going to ,school ,john ,riley1 ,esq4 #aad #ba4 ,the ,old ,farm-house ,campbell ,s4 ,holberton1 ,esq4 #abb #bb4 ,the ,red ,boy ,charles ,p4 ,johnson1 ,esq4 #acj #bc4 ,many ,happy ,returns of the ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #acf ,day #bd4 ,the ,naughty ,little ,girl ,miss ,violet ,severn between pp4 #adj 7#d pages7 and #ada #be4 ,the ,cherry ,woman ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 #aej #bf4 ,taking in the ,roses ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #afj #bg4 ,the ,garden ,seat ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 #aff #bh4 ,happy ,returns of the ,day ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #agj #bi4 ,cottages ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 #agb #cj4 ,portrait of a ,lady ,the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby #ahj #ca4 ,joan ,ponsonby1 #ahia ,the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby #ahb #cb4 ,brother and ,sister ,charles ,p4 ,johnson1 ,esq4 #ahh #cc4 ,the ,bracken ,gatherers ,the ,hon4 ,mrs4 ,w4 ,le ,poer ,trench #aid #cd4 ,a ,surrey ,cottage ,alfred ,emmott1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #aih #ce4 ,the ,pink ,sash ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #bjd #cf4 ,the ,peacock ,girl ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #baj #cg4 ,vera ,evelyn ,samuel ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #bab #ch4 ,two ,girls in a ,garden ,john ,riley1 ,esq4 #baf #ci4 ,the ,dancing of the ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #bah ,felspar ,fairies #dj4 ,a ,baby in ,white ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #bbb #da4 ,book-plate of ,miss ,vera ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #bbf ,evelyn ,samuel #db4 ,kate ,greenaway before ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #bcj the ,fates #dc4 ,the ,fable of the ,girl ,w4 ,finch1 ,esq4 #bcf and her ,milk ,pail #dd4 ,the ,muff 7unfinished7 ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #bdj #de4 ,the ,stick ,fire ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 #bdd #df4 ,two at a ,stile ,mrs4 ,w4 ,levy4 #bdf #dg4 ,waiting ,the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby #bej #dh4 ,springtime ,henry ,silver1 ,esq4 #bef #di4 ,swansdown ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 #bfj #ej4 #8,dead' ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #bfd #ea4 ,the ,may ,dance ,miss ,violet ,dickinson #bgb #eb4 ,alfy 7unfinished7 ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #bgd ,,in ,,black ,,and ,,white #a4 ,john ,greenaway 7,father of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #dj ,kate ,greenaway74 ,by ,birket ,foster1 ,r4,w4,s4 #b4 ,kate ,greenaway's ,nat4 ,art ,library1 ,victoria and #dd ,student-work ,albert ,museum1 ,s4 ,kensington #c4 ,kate ,greenaway at the ages 444444 #df of #af and #ba4 7,from ,photographs7 #d4 ,pencil ,sketches of ,the ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie1 ,f4,s4,a4 #ej #8,tragedy' #e4 ,john ,greenaway 7,brother ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #eb of ,kate ,greenaway7 #f4 ,pencil ,sketches ,the ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie1 ,f4,s4,a4 #ff #g4 ,kate ,greenaway1 #ahhj4 444444 #hd 7,from a ,photograph by ,elliott ,fry7 #h4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson ,mrs4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson #hf #i4 ,the ,twins ,mrs4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson between pp4 #ij #aj4 ,little ,dinky and #ia #aa4 ,water-colour ,drawings ,mrs4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson #ib on ,letters #ab4 ,water-colour ,drawing on ,mrs4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson #if ,letter #ac4 ,letter from ,john ,ruskin ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #aaa to ,kate ,greenaway1 #bgth ,dec4 #ahhb #ad4 #8,home-,beauty' ,mrs4 ,croft #abe #ae4 ,kate ,greenaway's ,home1 444444 #adb #ci1 ,frognal1 ,hampstead4 7,from a ,photograph7 #af4 ,tea ,room leading out from 444444 #add the ,studio1 #ci1 ,frognal1 ,hampstead4 7,from a ,photograph7 #ag4 ,the ,studio1 #ci1 ,frognal1 444444 #adf ,hampstead4 7,from a ,photograph7 #ah4 ,letter from ,john ,ruskin ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #aeg-aei to ,kate ,greenaway1 #hth ,nov4 #ahhf #ai4 #8,rover4' 7,from a 444444 #afd ,photograph7 #bj4 ,pencil and ,tint ,drawing ,b4 ,elkin ,mocatta1 ,esq4 #agd #ba4 ,kate ,greenaway in her 444444 #agh ,studio1 #ahie4 7,from a ,private ,photograph by ,mrs4 ,wm4 ,miller7 #bb4 ,mabel ,ponsonby ,the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby #ahd #bc4 ,eileen ,ponsonby ,the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby #ahf #bd4 ,sketch on ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson #aib ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 #hth ,july #ahif #be4 ,sketch on ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson #aic ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 #ajth ,dec4 #ahif #bf4 ,sketch on ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson #aid ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 #aith ,jan4 #ahig #bg4 ,letter from ,kate ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #bag ,greenaway to ,john ,ruskin 7#8,kate ,nickleby'7 #bh4 ,sketch on ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson #bbe ,miss ,violet ,dickinson #bi4 #8,ronald's ,clock' ,mrs4 ,m4 ,h4 ,spielmann #bdh #cj4 ,sketch-design for the ,mrs4 ,arthur ,lasenby ,liberty #bee ,plate affixed above the ,kate ,greenaway ,cot in the ,gt4 ,ormond ,st4 ,hospital #ca4 ,pencil ,study from ,life ,m4 ,h4 ,spielmann1 ,esq4 #bgf #cb4 ,letter from ,kate ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn #bgh ,greenaway to ,john ,ruskin #cc4 ,the ,picnic ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #bhj #cd4 ,pen ,sketch ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 #bhb #ce to #ij4 ,fifty-six ,thumb-nail and other ,sketches with ,pen and ,pencil1 throughout the ,text1 viz43 #bf on ,letters to ,john ,ruskin1 in the possession of ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn 7pp4 #a1 #h1 #ah1 #ba1 #bc1 #aaf1 #aeb1 #afb1 #afc1 #afe1 #agi1 #aig1 #aii1 #bjb1 #bjg1 #bbb1 #bcb1 #bcc1 #bcg1 #bci1 #bda1 #bdc1 #bdg1 #bgg1 #bhc1 #bhd74 #e from ,pencil ,sketches1 in the possession of ,m4 ,h4 ,spielmann1 ,esq4 7pp4 #e1 #ee1 #abc1 #aca1 #bde74 #e from the ,,ms4 of ,kate ,greenaway's ,autobiography1 in the possession of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 7pp4 #bf1 #cj1 #cc1 #ce1 #dj74 #e from ,book-plates1 etc41 in the possession of ,mrs4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson 7pp4 #bj1 #ed1 #gb1 #hh1 #ig74 #d on ,letters to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 in the possession of ,miss ,violet ,dickinson 7pp4 #fc1 #baj1 #bac1 #bba74 #d ,early ,rough ,sketches for ,christmas ,cards and ,valentines1 in the possession of ,wm4 ,marcus ,ward1 ,esq4 7pp4 #de1 #ge1 #bgi1 #bhj74 #b from ,pencil ,sketches1 in the possession of ,lady ,pontifex 7pp4 #f and #ajh74 #a from a ,book-plate1 in the possession of ,lady ,victoria ,herbert 7p4 #g74 #a on a ,letter to ,miss ,lily ,evans1 in the possession of ,miss ,lily ,evans 7p4 #ajg74 #a ,skit by ,randolph ,caldecott1 in the possession of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 7p4 #fi74 #a ,poem by ,austin ,dobson1 ,esq41 in the album of ,ernest ,g4 ,brown1 ,esq4 7p4 vii474 #a ,sketch-plan of ,kitchen at ,rolleston 7p4 #aa74 ,the ,illustrations in colour in this volume have been engraved and printed by ,the ,menpes ,press4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,chapter ,i ,,introductory ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,about the name of ,kate ,greenaway there floats a perfume so sweet and fragrant that even at the moment of her death we thought more of the artist we admired than of the friend we had lost4 ,grateful for the work she had produced1 with all its charm and tender cheerfulness1 the world has recognised that that work was above all things sincere4 ,and1 indeed1 as her art was1 so were her character and her mind3 never was an artist's self more truly reflected in that which her hand produced4 ,all the sincerity and genuine effort seen in her drawings1 all the modesty1 humour1 and love1 all the sense of beauty and of charm1 all the daintiness of conception and realisation1 the keen intelligence1 the understanding of children1 the feeling for landscape1 with all the purity1 simplicity1 and grace of mind--all those qualities1 in short1 which sing to us out of her bright and happy pages--were to be found in the personality of the artist herself4 ,all childhood1 all babyhood1 held her love3 a love that was a little wistful perhaps4 ,retiring1 and even shy1 to only a few she gave her friendship--a precious possession4 ,for how many are there who1 gifted as she was1 have achieved a triumph1 have conquered the applause and admiration of two hemispheres1 and yet have chosen to withdraw into the shade1 caring for no praise but such as she might thankfully accept as a mark of what she was trying to accomplish1 never realising 7such was her innate modesty7 the extent and significance of her success8 ,here was a fine character1 transparently beautiful and simple as her own art1 original and graceful as her own genius4 ,large-hearted and right-minded1 ,kate ,greenaway was gentle in her kindness1 lofty and firm in principle1 forgiving to the malevolent1 and loyal to her friends--a combination of qualities happily not unrivalled among women1 but rare indeed when united to attributes of genius4 ,it is true that what ,kate ,greenaway mainly did was to draw ,christmas cards1 illustrate a score or two of toy-books1 and produce a number of dainty water-colour drawings2 and that is the sum of her work4 ,why1 then1 is her name a household word in ,great and ,greater ,britain1 and even abroad where the mention of some of the greatest artists of ,england of to-day scarcely calls forth so much as an intelligent glance of recognition8 ,it is because of the universal appeal she made1 almost unconsciously1 to the universal heart4 ,all who love childhood1 even though they may not be blessed with the full measure of her insight and sympathy1 all who love the fields and flowers and the brightness of healthy and sunny natures1 must feel that ,kate ,greenaway had a claim on her country's regard and upon the love of a whole generation4 ,she was the ,baby's ,friend1 the ,children's ,champion1 who stood absolutely alone in her relations to the public4 ,randolph ,caldecott laboured to amuse the little ones2 ,mr4 ,walter ,crane1 to entertain them4 ,they aimed at interesting children in their drawings2 but ,kate ,greenaway interested us in the children themselves4 ,she taught us more of the charm of their ways than we had seen before2 she showed us their graces1 their little foibles1 their thousand little prettinesses1 the sweet little characteristics and psychology of their tender age1 as no one else had done it before4 ,what are ,edouard ,frre's little children to hers8 ,what are ,frhlich's1 what are ,richter's8 ,she felt1 with ,douglas ,jerrold1 that #8babes are earthly angels to keep us from the stars1' and has peopled for us a fairy-world which we recognise nevertheless for our own4 ,she had a hundred imitators 7from whom she suffered enough71 but which of them is a rival on her own ground8 ,m4 ,boutet de ,monvel was inspired by her2 but with all his draughtsman's talent and astonishing invention and resource1 he has not what she has3 he has given us the insouciance of childhood1 but at what sacrifice of touch2 he has given us some of the beauty1 but at what surrender of nearly all the lovableness and charm4 ,and not babies and school-girls only1 but maidens who are past the ignorance though not the innocence of childhood2 not roses only1 but all the flowers of the garden2 not the fields only1 but the fair landscape of the ,english country-side1--all these things ,kate ,greenaway has shown us1 with winning and delightful quaintness1 and has made us all the happier for her own happiness in them2 and1 showing us all these things1 she has made us love them and her drawings the more for the teaching and the loveliness in them1 and herself as well for having made them4 ,the children who welcomed her work when it first appeared are grown up now and are looking rather old1 and those who bought the picture-books #8for the little ones' 7as they said7 but enjoyed them so much themselves1 are mostly wearing spectacles4 ,and all the while ,kate ,greenaway worked hard1 making hundreds1 and thousands1 of her little pictures1 and doing more for the pleasure and happiness of the little folks than most little folks know4 ,so that now when her pencil and her brush are laid aside for ever1 and herself has been called away1 her life-task being done1 it is surely well that we should remember her in affection1 and wrap up the memory of her name in a little of the lavender of her love that filled her heart and welled over into her work4 ,one of the charms1 as has been said1 most striking in the character of #8,k4 ,g4' 7as she was called by her most intimate friends and relatives7 was her modesty4 ,a quiet1 bright little lady1 whose fame had spread all over the world1 and whose books were making her rich1 and her publisher prosperous and content--there she was1 whom everybody wanted to know1 yet who preferred to remain quite retired1 living with her relatives in the delightful house ,mr4 ,norman ,shaw had designed for her--happy when she was told how children loved her work1 but unhappy when people who were not her intimate friends wanted to talk to her about it4 ,she was1 therefore1 so little seen in the world that ,m4 ,arsne ,alexandre declared his suspicion that ,kate ,greenaway must really have been an angel who would now and then visit this green earth only to leave a new picture-book for the children1 and then fly away again4 ,she has flown away for ever now2 but the gift she left behind is more than the gift of a book or of a row of books4 ,she left a pure love of childhood in many hearts that never felt it before1 and the lesson of a greater kindness to be done1 and a delight in simple and tender joys4 ,and to children her gift was not only this2 but she put before them pictures more beautiful in their way and quaint than had ever been seen1 and she taught them1 too1 to look more kindly on their playmates1 more wisely on their own little lives1 and with better understanding on the beauties of garden and meadow and sky with which ,heaven has embellished the world4 ,it was a great deal to do1 and she did it well--so well that there is no sadness in her friends' memory of her2 and their gratitude is tinged with pride that her name will be remembered with honour in her country for generations to come4 ,what ,kate ,greenaway did with her modest pencil was by her example to revolutionise one form of book-illustration--helped by ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans1 the colour-printer1 and his wood-blocks1 as will be shown later on4 ,and for a time she dressed the children of two continents4 ,the smart dress with which society decks out its offspring1 so little consonant with the idea of a natural and happy childhood1 was repellent to ,kate ,greenaway4 ,so she set about devising frocks and aprons1 hats and breeches1 funnily neat and prim1 in the style of #ahjj1 adding beauty and comfort to natural grace4 ,in the first instance her ,christmas cards spread abroad her dainty fancy2 then her books1 and finally her almanacks over a period of fifteen years1 carried her designs into many countries and made converts wherever they were seen4 ,an ,englishman visiting ,jules ,breton1 in the painter's country-house in ,normandy1 found all the children in ,greenaway costumes2 for they alone1 declared ,breton1 fitted children and sunshine1 and they only were worthy of beautifying the chef-d'uvres du bon ,dieu4 ,illustration3 ,,sisters4 #8,girl with blue sash and basket of roses1 with a baby4' ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,indeed1 ,kate ,greenaway is known on the ,continent of ,europe along with the very few ,english artists whose names are familiar to the foreign public--with those of ,millais1 ,leighton1 ,burne-,jones1 ,watts1 and ,walter ,crane--being recognised as the great domestic artist who1 though her subjects were infantile1 her treatment often elementary1 and her little faults clear to the first glance1 merited respect for originality of invention and for rare creative quality4 ,it was realised that she was a tte d'cole1 the head and founder of a school--even though that school was but a ,kindergarten--the inventor of a new way of seeing and doing1 quite apart from the exquisite qualities of what she did and what she expressed4 ,it is true that her personal identity may have been somewhat vague4 ,an ,english customer was once in the shop of the chief bookseller of ,lyons1 who was showing a considerable collection of ,english picture-books for children4 #8,how charming they are6' he cried2 #8we have nothing like them in ,france4 ,ah1 say what you like--,walter ,crane and ,kate ,greenaway are true artists--they are two of your greatest men6' ,it was explained that ,kate ,greenaway was a lady4 ,the bookseller looked up curiously4 #8,i can affirm it1' said the visitor2 #8,miss ,greenaway is a friend of mine4' #8,ah1 truly8' replied the other1 politely yet incredulous4 ,later on the story was duly recounted to ,miss ,greenaway4 #8,that does not surprise me1' she replied1 with a gay little laugh4 #8,only the other day a correspondent who called himself 8a foreign admirer0 sent me a photograph of myself which he said he had procured1 and he asked me to put my autograph to it4 ,it was the portrait of a good-looking young man with a black moustache4 ,and when ,i explained1 he wrote back that he feared ,i was laughing at him1 as ,kate is a man's name--in ,holland4' ,illustration ,but if her personality was a #8mystification' to the foreigner1 there was no doubt about her art4 ,in ,france1 where she was a great favourite1 and where her extensive contribution of drawings to the ,paris ,exhibition of #ahhi had raised her vastly in the opinion of those who knew her only by her picture-books1 she was cordially appreciated4 ,but she had been appreciated long before that4 ,nearly twenty years earlier the tribute of ,m4 ,ernest ,chesneau was so keen and sympathetic in its insight1 and so graceful in its recognition1 that ,mr4 ,ruskin declared to the ,oxford undergraduates that no expressions of his own could vie with the tactful delicacy of the ,french critic4 ,but in his lecture on #8,the ,art of ,england' 7,fairyland7 ,ruskin found words to declare for himself that in her drawings #8you have the radiance and innocence of reinstated infant divinity showered again among the flowers of ,english meadows4' ,and privately he wrote to her3 #8,holbein lives for all time with his grim and ugly 8,dance of ,death02 a not dissimilar and more beautiful immortality may be in store for you if you worthily apply yourself to produce a 8,dance of ,life40' ,the touchstone of all art in which there is an element of greatness is the appeal which it makes to the foreigner1 to the high and the low alike4 ,kate ,greenaway's appeal was unerring4 ,dr4 ,muther has paid his tribute1 on behalf of ,germany1 to the exquisite fusion of truth and grace in her picture-books1 which he declared to be the most beautiful in the world2 and1 moreover1 he does justice to her exquisite feeling for landscape seen in the utmost simplicity--for she was not always drawing children4 ,but when she did1 she loved the landscape setting almost1 if not quite1 as much as the little people whom she sent to play in it4 ,illustration3 ,from a ,pencil ,sketch in the possession of ,lady ,pontifex4 ,in speaking of ,kate ,greenaway as a #8great' artist1 we do not1 of course1 mean that she was technically accomplished in the sense or degree that a great picture-painter or a sculptor may be4 ,her figure-drawing was by no means always impeccable2 and the fact of the design and composition being generally #8right' arose1 we imagine1 as much from intuition as from the result of scholarly training4 ,and that is the chief thing4 ,as he grows older1 even the artist who is primarily technician and purist is apt to ask1 #8,what does technical excellence matter so long as the gist of the thing is there8 ,is not that a finer thing which convinces us from the instinct of the painter than that which satisfies us from his knowledge of it8' ,yet ,kate could draw an eye or the outline of a face with unsurpassable skill3 firmness and a sense of beauty were among her leading virtues4 ,the painter with whom she had most affinity was perhaps ,mr4 ,g4 ,d4 ,leslie1 for her period and treatment are not unlike4 ,her sense of humour is allied to that of ,stacy ,marks2 and her sentiment to that of ,fred ,walker4 ,yet she was wholly personal 7as will be shown later on when the details of her art come to be discussed71 and full of independence1 courage1 and fixity of purpose4 ,and just as ,g4 ,f4 ,watts in his portraits of men and women invariably sought out the finest and most noble quality in his constant search for beauty in the sitter1 not only in features but in character1 so did ,kate ,greenaway in her quiet little drawings show us all that was sweet and pleasant and charming in children's lives of days gone by in country-side and village1 and left out all that was ugly1 wrong1 or bad4 ,illustration3 ,book-plate designed for ,lady ,victoria ,herbert4 ,the life and progress of the fascinating artist lie here before the reader1 with their quaint beginning and logical development4 ,,chapter ,,ii ,,early ,,years3 ,,birth--,,autobiography ,,of ,,childhood--,,first ,,visit ,,to ,,rolleston--,,love ,,of ,,flowers--,,family ,,trouble--,,evening ,,parties ,,and ,,entertainments4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,kate ,greenaway was born at #a1 ,cavendish ,street1 ,hoxton1 on the #agth day of ,march #ahdf4 ,she was the daughter of ,john ,greenaway and of his wife1 ,elizabeth ,jones4 ,john ,greenaway was a prominent wood-engraver and draughtsman1 whose work is to be found in the early volumes of the ,illustrated ,london ,news and ,punch1 and in the leading magazines and books of the day4 ,his paternal grandfather was also the forebear of the artist1 ,mr4 ,frank ,dadd1 ,r4,i41 whose brother married ,kate's sister4 ,the family consisted of 7#a7 ,elizabeth ,mary 7#8,lizzie'71 afterwards ,mrs4 ,frank ,coxall1 born in #ahda2 7#b7 ,catherine 7#8,kate'71 born in #ahdf2 7#c7 ,frances ,rebecca 7#8,fanny'71 afterwards ,mrs4 ,edward ,martin ,dadd1 born in #ahej2 and 7#d7 ,alfred ,john1 born in #aheb4 ,it was the intention of the parents that the second child should bear the name of ,kate1 but by a blunder ,catherine was substituted4 ,kate she called herself all her life1 and so entirely was ,catherine dropped that she always had to be reminded of her real name before she put her signature to any document in which strict accuracy was required4 ,kate's early life was1 in the general acceptance of the term1 uneventful4 ,unimportant1 childhood never is2 but what is important in it is generally hard to come at4 ,the reason is that we are rarely able to recall the trivial yet very material events which make up the sum of child-experience2 and the biographer is commonly left to ferret out the more salient points of the little one's surroundings1 and dress out his own conjectures of the effect they may have exercised upon the subject of his memoir4 ,in the case of ,kate ,greenaway we are in a better position1 for there are in existence certain records from the pen of the artist herself1 candid and direct1 and as particular in detail as if they had been studied1 as it were1 with her eye at the microscope of memory4 ,these records1 however1 are not the best that could be desired1 either in kind or in form1 so that their proper presentation is not without some difficulty4 ,a few years before her death ,miss ,greenaway conceived the idea of writing the autobiography of her childhood4 ,this she did not live to accomplish1 nor did she succeed in producing what can properly be called a complete rough draft of her nursery days4 ,what she left behind is the long detailed record of undigested recollections and sensations as she recalled them1 marked by discursiveness and lacking in literary form4 ,in the desire to render acceptable such of them as are here reproduced1 we have deemed it wise to substitute1 in the main1 the third for the first person singular4 ,no apology need be offered for dwelling upon the trifling personal details with which character is built up1 more particularly when they are revealed by a searching observation reinforced by an unusually retentive memory4 ,these things come to be of peculiar interest and1 combining to form a study of child-life1 may be said to possess real value and importance4 ,a certain lack of sequence and cohesion may be apparent in the record of these early days2 but the events happened and the impressions were created1 and from them there arose the ,kate ,greenaway who was destined to be beloved of two continents4 ,the reader is therefore prepared1 so far as the early years are concerned1 for a cumulative effect rather than for a rigidly consecutive narrative4 ,kate's own ideas on the relative merits of biography and autobiography may be gathered from the following quotations from letters written to her friend1 ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 in #ahig3-- ,what an interesting thing nearly every one's life would be if they could put it all down2 but it is only the horrid ones who will1 like ,marie ,bashkirtseff or ,rousseau--but if nice people could tell all their mind it would be charming4 ,did you ever read ,goethe's ,life--the autobiography8 ,all the early part is so charming1--only there you feel he also was very heartless4 ,and he was1 but it is so charmingly told4 ,sometimes frankness is curious4 ,i once met a young man who told me he was a coward and a liar--and it turned out he was1 to my great surprise4 ,it isn't often people know themselves so truthfully1 or1 if they know1 they don't say4 ,and again3 ,i am longing to read the ,tennyson ,life--shall send for it next week4 ,i don't know1 ,i'm sure1 who is best to write a ,life--outsiders don't know half what any one is like1 and relations often get a wrong idea of you because they are cross at little points in your character that annoy them4 ,i feel an autobiography or diary is best4 ,a person must reveal himself most in that4 ,kate was a precocious child4 ,we have it on her authority that when she was eight months old she could walk alone1 and while still an infant criticised the pronunciation of her sister ,lizzie1 who was five years her senior4 ,she was not a year old when she was taken by her mother to visit her great-aunt1 ,mrs4 ,wise1 the wife of a farmer at ,rolleston1 a village some five miles from ,newark and fourteen from ,nottingham4 ,and ,aunt ,aldridge1 her mother's sister1 lived in the neighbourhood1 at a lonely farm1 weirdly called the #8,odd ,house4' ,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,chappells' ,,cottage ,,at ,,rolleston--,,the ,,kitchen4 ,an early drawing by ,kate ,greenaway4 7,see ,no4 #a on ,sketch ,plan47 ,at ,aunt ,wise's house ,mrs4 ,greenaway was taken seriously ill1 and it was found necessary to put little ,kate out to nurse4 ,living on a small cottage farm in ,rolleston#a was an old servant of ,mrs4 ,wise's1 ,mary ,barnsdale1 at this time married to ,thomas ,chappell4 ,with the ,chappells lived ,mary's sister1 ,ann4 ,it was of this household that ,kate became an important member1 and forthwith to the child ,mary became #8,mamam1' her husband #8,dadad1' and her sister ,ann #8,nanan4' ,this was as soon as she found her tongue4 ,among her earliest recollections came a hayfield named the #8,greet ,close1' where ,ann carried ,kate on one arm1 and on the other a basket of bread and butter and cups1 and1 somehow1 on a third1 a can of steaming tea for the thirsty haymakers--which tells us the season of the year4 ,kate was sure that she had now arrived at the age of two1 and for the rest of her life she vividly remembered the beauty of the afternoon1 the look of the sun1 the smell of the tea1 the perfume of the hay1 and the great feeling of ,happiness--the joy and the love of it--from her royal perch on ,ann's strong arm4 ,illustration3 ,,sketch ,,of ,,the ,,kitchen ,,at ,,rolleston4 ,showing the disposition of the apartment pictured in the three coloured illustrations4 ,another remembrance is of picking up tiny pebbles and putting them into a little round purple-and-white basket with another little girl named ,dollie1 who was engaged in the same serious business with another purple-and-white basket4 ,kate was dressed in a pink cotton frock and a white sun-bonnet--she would have sworn1 she tells us1 to the colours half a century later1 under cross-examination if necessary4 ,indeed1 she seems never to have forgotten the colour of anything her whole life long4 ,but great as was the joy of tiny pebbles and of playmate ,dollie1 far greater was the happiness inspired by the flowers1 with which she struck up friendships that were to last to her life's end4 ,there was the snapdragon1 which opened and shut its mouth as she chose to pinch it4 ,this she #8loved'2 but the pink moss rose1 which grew by the dairy window1 she #8revered4' ,it grew with the gooseberry bushes1 the plum tree1 and the laburnum in the little three-cornered garden near the road4 ,then there was a purple phlox on one side of the gate and a ,michaelmas daisy on the other side2 and outside the gate 7she put this into a picture years afterwards1 and to her indignation was laughed at for it7 grew a wallflower4 ,but though she loved and revered the garden flowers1 they were never to her what those were which grew of their own free will in the fields and hedgerows4 ,there were the large blue crane's-bill1 the purple vetch1 and the toad-flax1 and1 above all others1 the willow-herb1 which to her sisters and brother was #8,kitty's flower4' ,these were the prime favourites1 and1 in the absence of the most elementary botanical knowledge1 had to be christened #8my little blue flower1' #8yellow dragon's-mouth1' or what not1 for private use4 ,farther away were the more rarely visited fairylands of the ,cornfield and the ,flower-bank1 only to be reached under ,ann's grown-up escort when she was free of a ,sunday4 ,in the first1 where the corn-stalks grew far above ,kate's head1 the enchanted vistas reached1 so it seemed1 away for ever and ever1 and the yellow avenues were brilliant with pimpernels1 pansies1 blue and white veronica1 tiny purple geraniums1 the great crimson poppies1 and the persistent bindweed1 which twined up the stems of the wheat4 ,but the ,flower-bank was better still--a high raised pathway which sloped down to a field on the one side and what was to her a dark1 deep stream on the other1 with here and there stiles to be climbed and delightfully terrifying foot-planks to be crossed2 then through a deep1 shady plantation until a mill was reached1 and right on1 if one went far enough1 to the river ,trent itself4 ,then1 in the plantation grew the large blue crane's-bill1 the purple vetch1 and the large white convolvulus1 which with the vetch trailed over the sloe and blackberry bushes4 ,and up in the trees cooed wood-pigeons2 and1 in the autumn1 all sorts of birds were gathered in view of flights to warmer lands4 ,round the mill wound the little river ,greet1 with forget-me-nots on the banks and overhanging apple trees1 from which apples1 falling off in the autumn1 would float away and carry with them ,kate's baby thoughts on and on to the sea1 and so to the new and wonderful world of the imagination which was to be her heritage1 and which she was to share with children yet unborn4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,kitchen ,,pump ,,and ,,old ,,cheese ,,press1 ,,rolleston4 ,early drawings by ,kate ,greenaway4 7,see ,nos4 #b and #c on ,sketch ,plan47 ,one thing only marred her pleasure1 one note of melancholy discord on these ,sunday morning walks--the church bells1 which from earliest childhood spoke to her of an undefined mournfulness lying somewhere in the background of the world of life and beauty4 ,she had heard them tolled for the passing of some poor soul1 and ever after that they took the joy out of her day for all their assumption of a gayer mood4 ,as ,kate grew a year or two older1 another prime entertainment was to rise at five o'clock in the morning and go off with ,ann to the #8,plot' to fetch the cows4 ,the #8,plot' was a great meadow to which all the ,rolleston cottagers had the right to send their cows1 the number of beasts being proportioned to the size of the cottage4 ,the ,chappells sent three1 ,sally1 ,strawberry1 and ,sarah ,midgeley1 and the sight was to see ,ann running after them--,ann1 tall and angular1 running with great strides and flourishing a large stick which she brought down with sounding thwacks on to tough hides and protruding blade-bones4 ,the cows were evil-minded and they resented uncalled-for interference with their morning meal4 ,they were as determined to stay in the plot as ,ann was to get them out of it2 sometimes1 indeed1 so determined were they on defiance that they would wander into the #8,high ,plot1' and then their disgrace and punishment were terrible to behold4 #8,get along in1 ye bad #8uns1' she would cry in her shrill voice1 and down the stick would come2 until at last1 hustling each other from where the blows fell thickest1 and running their horns into each other's skin1 while little ,kate grew sick with terror1 they were at last marshalled to the milking-place1 and peace would reign once more4 ,after a year or two at ,rolleston1 ,kate was taken back to ,london1 to ,napier ,street1 ,hoxton1 whither the ,greenaways had now moved4 ,up to this time the family had been in easy circumstances1 but trouble was now to come4 ,mr4 ,greenaway had been engaged to engrave the illustrations for a large and costly book4 ,the publishers failed and he never received a penny of his money4 ,there was nothing for it but to make the best of a bad job1 and ,mrs4 ,greenaway was not one to be daunted4 ,the family was removed to ,upper ,street1 ,islington1 opposite the church1 and while her husband sought further work1 ,mrs4 ,greenaway courageously set up shop and sold lace1 children's dresses1 and all kinds of fancy goods4 ,the venture was successful1 and the children found nothing to complain of in their new surroundings4 ,fashioned out of the middle portion of an old ,elizabethan country house1 the wings being likewise converted into two other small shops and the rooms apportioned accordingly1 the new home was a very castle of romance4 ,to the ,greenaways fell the grand staircase and the first floor1 with rambling passages1 several unused rooms1 too dilapidated for habitation1 and weird1 mysterious passages which led dreadfully to nowhere4 ,at the back was a large garden1 the use of which was held in common by the three families4 ,it was in ,islington that ,kate had her first taste of systematic education1 from ,mrs4 ,allaman1 who kept an infants' school--an old lady with a large frilly cap1 a frilly muslin dress1 a scarf over her shoulders1 and a long apron4 ,here she learned her letters and how to use needle and cotton4 ,on the whole1 she liked the old lady1 but all her life long she could feel the sounding tap of her admonitory thimble on her infant head in acknowledgment of a needle negligently and painfully presented point first to the mistress's finger4 ,of all her relations ,kate loved best her mother's mother1 #8,grandma ,jones1' who lived in ,britannia ,street1 ,hoxton1 in a house of her own4 ,she was a bright1 clever old lady1 with a sharp tongue1 fond of shrewd sayings and full of interesting information4 ,not her least charm was that she always had ,coburg loaves for tea1 beautiful toast1 raspberry jam1 and honey4 ,of ,grandfather ,jones1 ,kate writes3 ,my mother's father was a ,welshman4 ,she used to tell us he belonged to people who were called ,bulldicks because they were big men and great fighters1 and that they used as children to slide down the mountains on three-legged milking-stools4 ,he was very bad-tempered and made them often very unhappy1 but he was evidently intellectual and fond of reading4 ,my mother has often told me how he read ,sir ,charles ,grandison1 and she used to stand behind his chair unknown to him and read it also over his shoulder4 ,on her twentieth birthday he insisted upon giving a party1 because he said he should die before she was twenty-one1 and he did4 ,other relations of whom the little ,greenaways saw a great deal were their aunts ,rebecca1 a bookbinder1 and ,mary1 a wood-engraver4 ,aunt ,mary was a great favourite because she always had bread and treacle or bread and butter and sugar for tea4 ,but on ,sundays there were oranges and apples1 cakes and sweets1 with ,the ,pilgrim's ,progress1 ,john ,gilpin1 or ,why the ,sea became ,salt to follow4 ,especially from ,aunt ,mary1 later on1 did ,kate derive her deep love of poetry4 ,it was in ,aunt ,mary's company that a certain disastrous walk was taken up the ,city ,road one enchanted night1 dimly lighted by the stars overhead and by the red and blue chemist's-bottles in the windows below4 ,sister ,fanny was of the company1 and both the little girls1 overcome by the splendours of the scene1 tumbled off the curb into the road1 and arrived home muddy and disgraced4 ,and the whole was the more terrible because ,fanny was resplendent--7for there seems no limit to ,kate's sartorial recollection7--,fanny was resplendent in #8a dark-red pelerine1 with three rows of narrow velvet round the cape1 and a drab plush bonnet1 trimmed with chenille and red strings2 and ,kate in a dark-red frock1 a bonnet like her sister's1 and a little grey cloth jacket scalloped at the edge1 also bound and trimmed with red velvet4 ,and each had a grey squirrel muff4' ,from which particularity we see how the artist in posse was already storing her mind with matters which were to be of use to her in garment-designing in time to come4 ,as we proceed1 we shall more and more realise how important a factor in her artistic development was this early capacity for accurate observation1 ravenously seizing upon and making her own the infinitely little details of her childish experiences4 ,it was the vividness of these playtime impressions that made their recall possible at such period as her life-work had need of them4 ,there was another aunt1 ,mrs4 ,thorne1 ,mrs4 ,greenaway's youngest sister1 who lived at ,water ,lane1 near the ,river ,lee1 of whom ,kate by no means approved1 for hers was an extremely ill-ordered household4 ,but though visits there left a very disagreeable impression1 they were big with something of delightful import which had its development many years later4 ,it illustrates well how impressions absorbed in early years coloured the artist's performances in far-off days to come4 ,aunt ,thorne's garden was overrun with a glory of innumerable nasturtiums4 ,they were1 in ,kate's own words1 the #8gaudiest of the gaudy1' and she #8loved and admired them beyond words4' ,she was possessed by their splendour1 and finally got them visualised in a quite wonderful way in a dream with a background of bright blue palings4 ,for many a long year she bore the entrancing vision about with her1 and then gave it permanent expression for the delight of thousands in her picture of ,cinderella fetching her pumpkin4 ,the visits1 therefore1 which were so distasteful at the time were neither without result nor unimportant4 ,moreover1 the nasturtium dream brought to ,kate1 who as a child was a great dreamer1 a new experience4 ,two or three years before she had dreamed that she had come to a cottage in a wood and knocked at the door4 ,it was opened by an old woman whose face suddenly assumed an expression so awful that she awoke frightened and trembling4 ,in the nasturtium dream there was just such another cottage with just such another door1 at which1 after she had passed through the garden and had absorbed its beauties1 she also knocked4 ,then in a moment she knew that the door would be opened by the old woman with the horrible face of three years before4 ,a deadly faintness seized upon her and she again woke in horror4 ,this was her first experience of a dream within a dream4 ,many of her dreams were recurrent and are common enough to childhood4 ,one constantly repeated vision1 she tells us1 brought to her her dearly loved father4 ,she would dream that1 gazing into his face1 the countenance would change and be1 not his face1 but another's4 ,with this change would come an agony of misery1 and she would desperately tear off the false face1 only to be confronted by another and yet another1 but never his own1 until in mercy she awoke and knew that the terrible mutations were as unreal as they were terrifying4 ,again1 an often-repeated dream was of falling through water1 down1 down past the green weeds1 slowly1 slowly1 sink1 sink1 with a sort of rhythmic pause and start until the bottom was reached1 and she gently awoke4 ,or something would be in pursuit1 and just as capture was imminent1 she would feel that she could fly4 ,up1 up she would soar1 then float down over a steep staircase1 out at one window and in at another1 until she found herself lying in an ecstasy awake and wanting the delightful experience all over again4 ,kate's childhood seems1 on the whole1 to have been happy enough1 not so much in consequence of her surroundings as of her temperament4 ,writing to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson forty years later1 she says3 ,did you ever know ,mr4 ,augustus ,hare8 ,i find his book so very interesting4 ,i once was at the ,locker-,lampsons' when he was there4 ,i did not feel very sympathetic then1 but now ,i read his ,life1 ,i feel so very sorry for the poor unhappy little child he was4 ,and the horrid stern people he lived with--it makes me feel ,i don't know what1 as ,i read4444 ,i can't think how people can be hard and cruel to children4 ,they appeal to you so deeply4 ,i had such a very happy time when ,i was a child1 and1 curiously1 was so very much happier then than my brother and sister1 with exactly the same surroundings4 ,i suppose my imaginary life made me one long continuous joy--filled everything with a strange wonder and beauty4 ,living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling--,i can so well remember it4 ,there was always something more--behind and beyond everything--to me2 the golden spectacles were very very big4 ,late on in life1 too1 she used to compare the #8don't-much-care' attitude of the modern child with the wildness of her own enjoyments and the bitterness of her own disappointments4 ,it was a complaint with her that the little girl in ,jane ,taylor's poems who cried because it rained and she couldn't go for a drive was a child of the past1 whereas her modern representative1 surfeited with treats1 takes her disappointments stoically1 or at least apathetically1 and never sheds a tear4 ,there may have been some grounds for the comparison1 but probably what she missed in the modern child was the latent artistic emotion with which she had been endowed at birth4 ,for this power of joyful realisation had its necessary converse3 the very intensity of anticipation which made it necessary for treats to be concealed from her until the morning of their occurrence1 and her wild abandonment to pleasure when it came1 found its counterpart in fits of depression and gloom1 such as do not come to the humdrum and unimaginative child4 ,at such times she would make up her mind not only to be not happy1 but to be aggressively gloomy4 ,one day1 indeed1 she went so far as to announce at breakfast that she did not intend to smile the whole day long1 nor indeed to utter a single word4 ,the announcement was received with derisive laughter1 for the others knew it was only ,kate's way1 and that at the afternoon party which was imminent she would be the gayest of the gay4 ,and the worst of it was that ,kate knew in her heart of heart that they were right1 and that when the time came she would laugh and be happy with the rest4 ,one of these well-remembered gatherings was the ,b4's party1 an annual affair1 held in a long rambling furniture shop1 full of dark corners1 weird shadows1 and general mystery4 ,here it was1 year in1 year out1 that they met the little ,miss ,c4's1 who1 full of their own importance1 seeing that they were much better dressed than the other children1 annually sat silent1 sulky1 and superior4 ,here too disported himself the debonnaire ,johnny ,b41 a very wild boy1 who generally managed to break some furniture1 and had such dexterity in the lancers that he could shed his shoes as he went round and get into them again without stopping4 ,fate claimed him for the ,navy1 and he passed out of their lives in a midshipman's uniform4 ,another was ,mr4 ,d4's annual ,twelfth ,night party1 notable for its very big ,twelfth cake1 its drawing for king and queen1 and its magic-lantern4 ,kate never became queen1 but at ,miss ,w4's party1 quite the most important of the year1 she once had her triumph4 ,according to her own account-- ,it was some way off2 even now ,i remember the shivery feeling of the drive in the cab1 and the fear that always beset me that we might have gone on the wrong day4 ,there was ,miss ,w41 ,miss ,w4's brother1 ,miss ,w4's aunt1 and ,miss ,w4's mother4 ,miss ,w4 taught my eldest sister ,lizzie music1 and all her pupils were invited once a year to this party1 their sisters also1 but no brothers--at least1 two brothers only ,i ever remember seeing there4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,there was one big tomboy sort of girl1 with beautiful blue eyes and tangled fair hair1 who used to have a grown-up brother come to fetch her2 this girl ,i loved and admired intensely1 and never spoke to her in my life4 ,she had merry ways and laughing looks1 and ,i adored her4 ,the other brother was the cause of my one triumph4 ,one party night there was just this little boy--among all the girls--and tea over and dancing about to begin1 the boy was led to the middle of the room by ,miss ,w41 and told out of all the girls to choose his partner for the first dance4 ,he took his time--looked slowly round the room1 weighing this and that1 and1 to my utter discomfiture and dire consternation1 he chose me--moment of unwished triumph--short-lived also1 for he didn't remain faithful1 but fell a victim later on to the wiles of some of the young ladies nearly twice his age4 ,i remember ,i was much relieved1 became fast and devoted friends with a nice little girl1 passed an agreeable evening1 and remember at supper-time surreptitiously dropping an apple-tart ,i loathed behind a fender4 ,i daresay it was good really1 but it was tart with the tartness of lemonade and raspberryade1 two things ,i disliked at that time4 ,but delightful as were these private parties1 they were as nothing compared with the rarer visits to the theatres or other places of entertainment4 ,on these never-to-be-forgotten occasions ,mr4 ,greenaway1 whose work was chiefly done away from home1 would turn up quite unexpectedly at tea-time1 would pretend that he had come home for nothing in particular1 and would playfully keep the eager children on the tenterhooks of expectation4 ,but it was only part of a playful fraud1 for they knew well that nothing would tempt him early from his work but some thrilling treat in store for them4 ,what delight there was1 when finally the secret of their destination leaked out1 to scramble over tea1 hurry on best clothes1 thread dark streets1 and finally blink their way into the magic circle of the blazing theatre itself1 with its fascinating smell of oranges and gas1 the scraping of violins1 and all the mysterious titillations of the expectant senses4 ,kate's first taste of the theatre was ,henry the ,fifth at ,sadler's ,wells4 ,then came the ,midsummer ,night's ,dream1 ,henry the ,fourth1 ,the ,lady of ,lyons1 and 7at ,astley's7 ,richard the ,third4 ,it was at ,astley's1 too1 when she must have been several years older1 that she saw a piece called ,the ,relief of ,lucknow1 in which ,general ,havelock rode on to the stage on a beautiful white horse4 ,this made so great an impression upon her that she burst into tears1 whereupon her sister said she was #8a silly' and her father said she wasn't2 for the awful tragedy of the ,indian ,mutiny was at that time filling everybody's thoughts1 and with the details of it she had grown terribly familiar by poring over the pictures in the ,illustrated ,london ,news4 ,moreover1 her imagination had stimulated her pencil at this time to make many dramatic drawings of ladies1 nurses1 and children being pursued by bloodthirsty sepoys2 but the pencil was of slate1 and consequently these earliest known drawings were wiped out almost as soon as executed4 ,hardly less enchanting than these theatrical experiences were the days which brought them tickets for the ,polytechnic or took them to the ,crystal ,palace4 ,the former was not yet the haunt of ,pepper's ,ghost1 or of ,liotard 7in wax7 on his trapeze1 but it was quite enchanting enough with its ,diving ,bell and the goggle-eyed ,diver1 who tapped the pennies1 retrieved from the green depths of his tank1 on the sounding brass of his helmet4 ,the ,palace1 with its ,alhambra ,courts1 its great fountains1 its tall water towers1 and other innumerable delights1 was an ,abode of ,bliss4 ,those were days in which1 to her memory1 the sun seemed always to be shining1 the sky always to be blue1 and the hours never long enough for all their joyous possibilities4 ,and1 though the time had to come when the sun sometimes forgot to shine1 and1 when it did1 threw longer shadows before her1 ,kate ,greenaway never wholly forgot1 but kept these joys alive in her heart for the enchantment of others4 ,illustration3 ,book-plate designed for ,miss ,hannah ,jane ,locker-,lampson1 #ahih4 ,illustration3 ,,winter1 #ahib4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,,chapter ,,iii ,,childhood ,,in ,,rolleston3 ,,early ,,reading--,,adventures ,,in ,,london ,,streets--,a ,,community ,,of ,,dolls--,,buckingham ,,palace--,,life ,,in ,,rolleston--,,education--,,brother ,,and ,,father4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,when ,kate was midway between five and six years of age1 the family moved into a larger house and shop nearer to ,highbury4 ,here they fairly established themselves1 and here was the home of her recollection when she looked back on her childhood4 ,then a new world opened to her1 a new1 boundless world1 unfenced about with material walls1 illimitable1 inexhaustible--the world of books and measureless imagination4 ,of a sudden1 to her mother's and her own great happiness and surprise1 she found that she could read6 ,first came the two-a-penny ,fairy ,tales in coloured paper covers4 ,there were larger ones for a penny1 but the halfpenny ones were better4 ,pepper and ,salt was one of the most enjoyably and delightfully afflictive4 ,who that has read it in tender years can ever forget how the ,cruel ,stepmother kills ,salt and buries her1 or the mysterious voice that chanted-- #8,she drank my blood and picked my bones1 ,and buried me under the marble stones4' ,kate never forgot them1 as1 indeed1 she never forgot ,bluebeard1 or ,toads and ,diamonds1 or ,beauty and the ,beast4 ,but1 although she never forgot them1 she never remembered them too well4 ,the delicious excitement could always be renewed4 ,a hundred times she had heard ,bluebeard call in his awful voice to ,fatima to come down4 ,a hundred times ,sister ,ann had cried her shrill reply3 #8,i see the sky that looks blue and the grass that looks green4' ,a hundred times the little cloud of dust had risen1 and the brothers had come in the nick of time to save her4 ,but1 at the hundredth reading1 ,kate's fear was as acute and her relief as great as at the first4 ,other favourites were ,frank1 ,harry1 and ,lucy1 ,the ,purple ,jar1 ,the ,cherry ,orchard1 ,julianna ,oakley1 ,the ,child's ,companion1 and ,line upon ,line4 ,then there were the verses of ,jane and ,ann ,taylor1 rendered especially delightful by ,mrs4 ,greenaway's dramatic rendering at bedtime--#8,down in a green and shady bed1' #8,down in a ditch1 poor donkey1' and #8,miss ,fanny was fond of a little canary4' ,the last harrowed ,kate with an intense sorrow1 as indeed it did to the day when she set to work to illustrate it for the joy and delight of a later generation in a volume dedicated to ,godfrey1 ,dorothy1 ,oliver1 and ,maud ,locker4#b ,others which she could never hear too often were #8,greedy ,richard1' #8,careless ,matilda1' #8,george and the ,chimney-,sweep1' #8,dirty ,jim1' #8,little ,ann and her ,mother1' and #8,the ,cow and the ,ass4' #8,take a seat1' said the ,cow1 gently waving her hand4 #8,by no means1 dear ,madam1' said he1 #8while you stand4' ,then showing politeness1 as ,gentlemen must1 ,the ,ass held his tongue that the ,cow might speak first4 ,but one book there was which1 whilst it delighted the rest1 depressed little ,kate horribly and miserably1 though she would never confess it1 partly out of loyalty to her father and partly from shame at what she felt might be regarded as a foolish weakness4 ,this was a book of rhymes for which ,mr4 ,greenaway had engraved the wood-blocks4 ,it contained the #8,courtship1 ,life1 and ,death of ,cock ,robin and ,jenny ,wren'2 #8,the ,three ,bears'2 #8,the ,little ,man and the ,little ,maid'2 #8,the ,wonderful ,history of ,cocky ,locky1 ,henny ,penney1 and ,goosey ,poosey'2 and a story of a ,goose and her three daughters1 ,gobble1 ,goosey1 and ,ganderee1 which began ,a ,goose who was once at the point of death ,she called her three daughters near4 ,these seemed to her tender heart cruel and terrible tales1 and their funny names and affectation of gaiety in no way palliated their brutality or comforted their little reader4 ,other books over which she would pore were the ,plays of ,shakespeare1 illustrated by ,kenny ,meadows1 all of which she managed to read before she was many years older1 two large volumes of the ,illuminated ,magazine1 an odd volume of the ,illustrated ,family ,journal1 and a monster scrap-book of coloured and uncoloured prints1 collected probably by her father in the course of his occupation4 ,one dreadful print there was among the last which had for her a horrible fascination4 ,it was the etched plate by ,george ,cruikshank from ,ainsworth's ,tower of ,london--#8,the ,burning of ,edward ,underhill on ,tower ,green1' where1 according to ,reid's rather lurid description1 we see #8the victim losing self-command in his horrible sufferings1 and in agony plunging his hands into his flesh4' ,it is easy to realise the effect of such a scene upon a child so sensitive that she could not bear to dwell even upon the sufferings of ,gobble1 ,goosey1 and ,ganderee4 ,and yet1 terrible as it was1 she would not1 had she wished1 escape from its dreadful attractiveness4 ,into the victim's stricken face she would gaze and gaze until she trembled with horror4 ,then seizing it and shutting her eyes1 she would frantically hide it away in a cupboard filled with copies of the ,illustrated ,london ,news1 slipping it blindly in amongst the reams of printed paper1 half hoping never to see it again4 ,then would pass an interval of relief1 only to be followed as certainly as night follows day by an irresistible craving to look upon the awful thing again1 a frantic search1 another horrified glance1 and again a hasty but not a final occultation4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,but such experiences were few and detached4 ,the prevailing notes of her life1 she insists1 were wonder and delight4 ,how limitless1 for example1 were the pleasures to be got out of the streets1 where1 with her younger sister ,fanny1 she was allowed to roam1 so long as she kept away from the forbidden land which lay beyond ,wellington ,street on the one hand and ,barnsbury ,street on the other4 ,all else was out of bounds4 ,of course1 like all imaginative children1 they played at the fascinating game of #8,pretence1' merging their individualities in those of grand and mysterious children whom1 nurse-guarded1 as the little ,greenaways were not1 they met on their daily walks4 ,two there were in particular who1 they made believe1 had their home in the sky1 descending to earth daily for their morning's exercise4 ,and surely there was nothing incongruous or surprising in the fact that these celestial visitors should choose ,islington as the most eligible part of this best of all possible worlds for the purpose4 ,where else could they see such fascinating shops and such rustling1 perfumed ladies8 #8,where else such a ,fancy ,emporium into which you could gaze and gaze for ever 7until driven away by the owner7 at the picture-books and puzzle-maps in the glass case at the side of the doorway8' ,and when chased away from there1 where such another print-shop with its coloured engravings after ,john ,martin--#8,belshazzar's ,feast1' #8,the ,great ,day of ,wrath1' and #8,the ,plains of ,heaven'8--pictures which ,kate never wearied of1 and which from their wealth of detail could never be wholly mastered4 ,if variety of entertainment were wanted1 was there ever such a diversity of side-shows as the corner of ,wellington ,street1 by great good fortune just within bounds8--by good fortune1 because ,kate and her sister1 being out on parole1 never dreamed of straying beyond the permissible limit4 ,here one day would be found a sailor with one leg real and the other of wood1 appealing to the sympathetic passer-by by means of a large and lurid picture of a ship overturned by a whale4 ,another day the pitch would be taken by an impostor of the same feather who set forth an equally lurid representation of a battle on ship-board1 with a cannon-ball exploding in the midst of a crowded deck and dealing around all manner of grisly and impossible hurts4 ,impostor he must have been1 for no brave man ever hit out so viciously as he did with his crutch at well-behaved children1 directly he found that no grown-up people were looking1 just because he knew that there were no coppers coming to him from that quarter4 ,again1 there was the ,punch and ,judy show4 ,hither at the first sound of the drum and ,punch's weird screech the little ,greenaways' feet would be set incontinently running4 ,arrived1 with breathless interest they would follow the familiar tragedy1 thrill at the ghost1 pity the poor trembling protagonist1 and follow the drama responsively to its close4 ,but there were times when their eagerness was cruelly balked4 ,as the drama drew to its most thrilling moment1 there would fall a great despair upon the little onlookers4 ,of a sudden the play would stop1 and the stage manager1 stepping forward1 would declare that the audience was not a paying one1 and that unless a certain amount of hard cash were forthcoming1 he couldn't afford to go on4 ,now the little ,greenaways never had any money1 so they were helpless in the matter1 and1 if the rest of the audience happened to be in the same plight1 as was not rarely the case1 there was an abrupt termination to the play for that day1 and ,punch struck his camp for some less impecunious sphere4 ,but the corner was full of possibilities4 ,as likely as not the faithless ,punch would be replaced in almost no time by the hardly less fascinating ,fantoccini--of which ,mother ,goose with her milk-pails from which jumped little children1 the skeleton that came to bits and joined itself together again1 and the four little figures dancing a quadrille dwelt longest in the memory4 ,indeed1 rarely was this wonderful corner unoccupied1 for1 lacking the more regular entertainers1 there was always the chance of tumblers1 or tight-rope dancers1 or a ,happy ,family4 ,the last-named1 by the way1 not infrequently belied its description1 and had to be hastily curtained for the saving of its impresario's reputation4 ,such contretemps1 it need hardly be said1 met with hearty appreciation from the audience1 for children1 like their elders1 bear with more than equanimity the misfortunes of others4 ,again1 there were dancing dolls which knocked each other about in very lively fashion1 a variety of peep-shows1 and a delightful organ with a scene of great ingenuity on the top1 in which an executioner cut off the head of a queen about once every minute1 to the tune of the #8,marseillaise4' ,there was one dreadful day when there came something more than little ,kate had bargained for4 ,in place of the looked-for entertainment1 there marched along a man dressed in skins1 a modern edition of ,solomon ,eagle1 who blew blasts out of a great brass trumpet and announced in a loud voice that the ,end of the ,world was at hand4 ,the shock was a terrible one4 ,for months ,kate went about haunted by the gloomiest forebodings4 ,those gruesome pictures of ,martin's in the print-seller's window assumed a new significance4 ,she began to guess at what we call inexorable fate1 to catch a glimpse of destiny4 ,nor was this all4 ,from pondering1 fearsomely1 the world's imminent destruction so convincingly announced1 she came to trying1 in a hopeless1 childish fashion to hark back to the beginning of things4 ,driving herself almost frantic with terror at the thought of burning worlds afloat in space as dark as night1 she would rack her brains as to what was behind it all1 until she faced the blank black wall of nothingness1 against which she was not the first to knock her poor little head4 ,then baffled and despairing she would run away1 she says1 seeking relief and forgetfulness wherever it might be found4 ,fortunately she had not a few distractions4 ,there were her dolls1 which ranged from the little giant #8,gauraca' 7given to ,kate for learning a piece of pianoforte music so entitled1 then in vogue71 so huge--more than a yard and a quarter long--that she could only be carried with legs trailing on the ground1 to the little group of ,dutch mannikins of which half-a-dozen could be grasped in one hand4 ,by right of bulk ,gauraca claimed precedence4 ,she wore the discarded clothes of brother ,john1 the tucks in which had to be let down to make them big enough1 and took full-sized babies' shoes4 ,she was a wonder1 not indeed altogether lovable2 rather was she of value as a stimulator of covetous feelings in others4 ,below ,gauraca came dolls of all sorts and sizes1 too many for enumeration1 but all of importance1 seeing that on their persons were performed those tentative experiments which were to colour the work of twenty years later4 ,illustration ,on these dolls ,kate dilates at some length1 and the gist of her record is this4 ,least in size though first in rank came the ,royal group1 with ,queen ,victoria 7who had cost a halfpenny7 as its centre1 supported by ,prince ,albert 7also a halfpenny7 appropriately habited in a white gauze skirt trimmed with three rows of cerise satin1 and1 for further distinction and identification1 a red ribbon tied across his shoulder and under his left arm4 ,these garments could only be removed by an actual disintegration4 ,the ,royal circle was completed by the princes and princesses at a farthing apiece4 ,their dresses were made from the gauze bonnet linings just then going out of fashion1 and such scraps of net and ribbon as had proved unsaleable4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,open ,,door4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn4 ,the little ,greenaways were profoundly interested in the doings of the august personages who were their prototypes4 ,they knew their names1 ages1 and birthdays as well as they knew each other's1 and eagerly studied their likenesses in the ,illustrated ,london ,news4 ,on great occasions the children would be taken by ,mr4 ,greenaway to peep in at the gates of ,buckingham ,palace itself1 and ,kate wished and wished with all her might that she might be driven through them1 as an invited guest1 in a ,royal coach4 ,little did she dream that thirty years later would indeed find her an honoured visitor within the sacred precincts1 entertained by the ,princess ,royal 7then ,crown ,princess of ,germany71 and chatting on easy terms with the future ruler of the ,german ,empire4 ,it was only when she was actually driving between those gates1 not exactly in a #8,royal coach1' that the memory of her ardent wish suddenly recurred to her1 for she had never thought of it since2 and it filled her mind as she entered the ,royal presence4 ,then it was she learned that1 whilst she as a child had envied the lot of those within1 the ,princess as a child had envied the freedom of those without1 and that a prison is none the less a prison because the bars are of gold4 ,here also she had the privilege of meeting the ,princess ,helena 7by that time ,princess ,christian71 who doubtless would have been highly amused had she known how often the artless-looking little lady before her had boldly represented her in bygone days when #8pretending' in the wilds of ,islington4 ,how heartily1 too1 would she have laughed 7nay1 perhaps she may laugh still7 at the picture of the farthing wooden effigy which an enthusiastic little loyalist had invested with her exalted personality in those fast-receding days4 ,after the wooden dolls1 with their crude and irremovable garments1 came the far more human-looking effigies in china1 which populated the cupboard in the little girls' bedroom4 ,their clothes were all exquisitely made by ,kate1 and were all removable4 ,they took their walks abroad on the mantelpiece4 ,their hats were made of tiny straw-plaits trimmed with china ribbons and the fluffy down culled from feathers which had escaped from the pillows4 ,they revelled in luxurious gardens made of fig boxes filled with sand collected on ,sunday walks to ,hampstead ,heath1 and planted with the tiniest of flowering plants1 which often had to be replaced1 as they would not thrive in the uncongenial soil4 ,furniture was hard to come by at a farthing a week1 which was ,kate's income at this time1 but twenty-four weeks' saving got a sixpenny piano1 for the sake of which the sacrifice of other expensive pleasures during that period was considered not unreasonable4 ,once indeed ,aunt ,aldridge came to town and presented the dolls with a work-table1 but so great a piece of good fortune never again befell4 ,later there were ,lowther ,arcadian dolls at fourpence halfpenny apiece1 but these like the royal group were short-lived and ephemeral4 ,they passed away so rapidly that memory lost their identity1 whereas #8,doll ,lizzie1' made of brown oak1 legless1 armless1 and devoid of paint1 and #8,one-eye1' equally devoid of paint1 half-blind1 and retaining but one rag arm1 were seemingly immortal1 and were more tenderly loved than all1 notwithstanding the fact that their only clothing consisted of old rags tied round them with string4 ,these remnants went to bed with the little girls1 and enjoyed other privileges not accorded to the parvenues4 ,london1 as we see1 was now the home of ,kate ,greenaway1 but fortunately there was ,rolleston and the country always in the background as a beautiful and fascinating possibility2 and it was rarely that a year passed without a visit1 though now and again not enough money had been saved to make the thing feasible4 ,in ,kate's own simple words3 ,in these early days all the farm things were of endless interest to me4 ,i used to go about in the cart with ,dadad1 and ,nancy to draw us4 ,he thought wonderful things of ,nancy--no pony was like her4 ,i shared his feeling1 and when my ,uncle ,aldridge used to inquire how the high-mettled racer was1 ,i felt deep indignation4 ,there was no weight ,nancy couldn't draw--no speed she could not go at 7if she liked71 but there was no need on ordinary occasions--there was plenty of time4 ,the cart had no springs--it bumped you about2 that didn't matter to me4 ,sometimes we used to go to ,southwell to get malt4 ,this was a small quiet town two and a half miles off1 and the way to drive was through green lane-like roads4 ,it took a good while4 ,nancy went at a slow jog-trot2 ,i didn't mind how long it took1 it was all a pleasure4 ,there was an old cathedral called ,southwell ,minster1 with quaint old carvings in stone and old stained-glass windows which they said were broken and buried in ,cromwell's time so as to save them4 ,southwell now possesses a ,bishop1 but it did not then4 ,then we used to go to the #8,plot1' where all the cottage people had land1 to get potatoes or turnips4 ,at hay-time and harvest the cart had one of those framework things fitted on1 and ,nancy fetched corn or hay4 ,i had a tiny hayfork1 a little kit to carry milk in1 and a little washing-tub1 all exactly like big real ones1 only small4 ,i washed dolls' things in the tub1 and made hay with the fork1 and carried milk in the kit4 ,then1 besides ,nancy1 there were the three cows1 numerous calves1 two pigs1 two tortoiseshell cats1 and a variable number of hens4 ,variable1 for barring #8,sarah ,aldridge1' the tyrant of the yard1 their lives were sadly precarious1 and the cooking-pot insatiable4 #8,sarah ,aldridge1' so named after the giver1 was a light-coloured1 speckled1 plump hen with a white neck--a thoroughly bad character1 a chartered ,jezebel of a fowl1 bearing a charmed and wholly undeserved existence4 ,she took1 says ,kate ,greenaway1 the biggest share of everything1 chased all the other hens1 and--crowed4 ,stowed somewhere in ,mary ,chappell's memory was the old proverb-- ,a whistling woman and a crowing hen ,are neither good for ,god nor men4 #8,sarah ,aldridge' crowed4 ,and when she crowed ,mary became strangely moved with mingled rage and fear4 ,she would fling down whatever she was doing4 ,she would fly after #8,sarah' breathing dreadful threats4 ,she would run her well-nigh out of her life1 nor desist until she was compelled for want of breath4 ,then she would fall into an awe-stricken state1 which she called a #8dither1' convinced that because of this monstrous breach of nature some terrible thing would be sure to happen4 ,but1 notwithstanding her superstitions1 ,mrs4 ,chappell was a truly worthy woman1--one of the noblest4 ,indeed1 ,kate ,greenaway always insisted that she was the kindest1 most generous1 most charitable1 the cheerfullest1 and most careful woman she had ever known4 ,to quote her words1 #8in all things she was highest and best4' ,she meant nothing derogatory to her husband when she told every one before his face that he was a #8poor creature4' ,he entirely agreed4 ,there was no hint at his being #8wanting' in any particular1 but rather that ,providence was at fault in not vouchsafing him a full measure of health and strength4 ,indeed1 he felt rather distinguished than otherwise when his wife drew attention to his infirmities4 ,he was one of those who thoroughly enjoyed his bad health4 ,it was a rule of life with ,mrs4 ,chappell never to speak ill of her neighbours4 #8,ask me no questions and ,i will tell you no stories1' was the letter always on her lips1 and the spirit of charity was always in her heart4 ,she combined the utmost generosity with a maximum of carefulness4 ,she did not know how to be wasteful4 ,she had a merry heart1 and ,kate always maintained that it was through her that she learnt to be in love with cheerfulness4 ,so that more than one unmindful generation has since had cause to bless the memory of ,mary ,chappell4 ,her real name was ,phyllis1 ,phyllis ,barnsdale1 previous to her marriage4 ,before going to ,rolleston she had been in service with a ,colonel1 a friend of ,lord ,byron's and a neighbour of his at ,newstead ,abbey4 ,of her reminiscences ,kate retained just two things4 ,of ,byron1 that his body was brought home in spirits of wine4 ,of the ,colonel1 that he was so short-sighted that the groom only rubbed down his horse on the near side1 secure that the half-heartedness of his service would never be discovered4 ,illustration3 ,,mrs4 ,,chappell1 ,,dressed ,,for ,,sunday1 ,,taking ,,her ,,usual ,,nap ,,against ,,the ,,copper4 ,coming to ,rolleston1 ,phyllis ,barnsdale entered the service of the ,fryers1 farmers and butchers4 ,mrs4 ,fryer1 to whom she was devoted1 was very severe1 a violent-tempered woman but very kind-hearted4 ,here ,phyllis stayed until she married1 doing unheard-of quantities of work1 up at half-past two in the mornings1 or three at the latest1 doing all the domestic work of the farm-house1 and washing the clothes of her master1 her mistress1 two girls1 and ever so many boys4 ,work was her business in life and she didn't care how much she did4 ,one condition only and there was nothing she was too proud to put her hand to4 ,in one thing was she unyielding4 ,she must have the highest wages in the village4 ,these she would have1 not because she loved money but just because her pride lay that way4 ,when ,kate first went to ,rolleston the ,fryers' farm had passed into the hands of a married daughter1 ,mrs4 ,neale1 whose husband1 an idle1 good-natured1 foolish man1 smoked and drank whilst the butcher-business slipped through his fingers4 ,in ,kate's earliest days they were seemingly prosperous enough1 and one of the first things the little ,greenaways had to do on arrival at ,rolleston was to make an odd little morning call at #8,the ,house1' where they were regaled with cowslip wine and sponge-cakes4 ,this was the etiquette of the place3 it was the respect due from ,cottage to ,farm4 ,the ,fryers' garden was1 in ,kate's own words years afterwards1 #8my loved one of all gardens ,i have ever known1' and that was saying a good deal1 for it would be hard to find anywhere a greater lover of gardens than she was4 ,it was her real ,paradise4 ,round the windows of #8,the ,house' grew the biggest and brightest convolvuluses in the world 7at least in the world she knew7--deep blue blossoms with #8pinky' stripes and deep pink blossoms with white stripes4 ,her intimacy with them told her every day where the newest blooms were to be found4 ,across the gravel path on the left as you emerged from #8,the ,house' was a large oval bed1 with roses1 pinks1 stocks1 sweet ,sultans1 the brown scabious1 white lilies1 red lilies1 red fuchsias1 and in early summer1 monster tulips1 double white narcissus1 peonies1 crown imperials1 and wallflowers4 ,indeed1 all lovely flowers seemed to grow there4 ,and the scent of them was a haunting memory through life4 ,then there were the biggest1 thickest1 and bushiest of box borders1 nearly a yard high1 so thick and solid that you could sit on them and they never gave way4 ,these bounded the long gravel walk which led straight down to the bottom of the garden1 and along which grew flowers of every lovely shape and hue4 ,beyond them on the left was the orchard--apples1 pears1 plums1 and bushy filberts2 on the right the kitchen garden--currant bushes with their shining transparent bunches1 red and white1 gooseberries1 strawberries1 feathery asparagus1 and scented herbs such as good cooks and housewives love4 ,it was an enchanted fairyland to the little ,londoner and had a far-reaching influence on her life and work4 ,later on her letters teemed with just such catalogues of flowers4 ,so great was her love for them that1 next to seeing them1 the mere writing down of their names yielded the most pleasurable emotions4 ,another thing which greatly appealed to her was the spaciousness of everything--the great house seemingly illimitable in itself1 yet stretching out farther into vast store-houses and monster barns4 ,for those were days when threshing machines were unknown and corn had to wait long and patiently to fulfil its destiny4 ,indeed1 people took pride in keeping their corn1 unthreshed1 just to show that they were in no need of money4 ,then large bands of ,irishmen wandered over the country at harvest-time1 leisurely cutting the corn with sickles1 for the machine mower was at that time undreamed of4 ,at the ,neales'1 too1 there were birds innumerable--peacocks strutting and spreading their tails1 guinea-fowls1 turkeys with alarming voices and not less alarming ways1 geese1 pigeons1 ducks1 and fowls4 ,all these things were in the early ,rolleston days1 but they did not last4 ,by degrees1 through neglect and carelessness1 the business drifted away from the ,neales into more practical and frugal hands1 and in the end they were ruined--wronged and defrauded by the lawyers1 the ,chappells believed1 but in reality abolished by the natural process of cause and effect4 ,anyhow1 the ,chappells acted up to their belief1 and with unreasoning loyalty gave them money1 cows1 indeed everything they had1 until they were themselves literally reduced to existing on dry bread and were involved in the general downfall4 ,in this ,mary ,chappell was1 of course1 the moving spirit1 but her husband agreed with all she did1 and took his poor fare without complaint4 ,but before the crash came there were many happy days and lively experiences4 ,there was ,newark market on ,wednesdays1 to which ,mary ,chappell always went with ,mrs4 ,neale1 sometimes1 but rarely1 accompanied by the latter's husband4 ,on special occasions ,kate went too4 ,fanny1 the brown pony1 drew them in a lovely green cart4 ,when ,mr4 ,neale went1 ,mrs4 ,chappell and ,kate sat behind4 ,when he didn't1 ,kate sat behind alone and listened to the two ladies talking about ,fanny as if she were a human being1 discussing her health1 her likes and dislikes of things she passed on the road1 in full enjoyment of the never-failing topic of #8the old girl4' ,there was a good deal of preliminary interest about these expeditions4 ,there was the walk up to #8,the ,house' with ,mary ,chappell heavily laden with baskets of butter on each arm4 ,mary was no ordinary butter-seller4 ,she would no more have dreamed of standing in the butter-market to sell her butter than she would have dreamed of selling it to the shops to be vended over the counter like ordinary goods4 ,only people who did not keep their pans properly clean would stoop to that4 ,no1 she #8livered' her own butter4 ,she had her own regular customers who had had her butter for years1 and they always wanted more than she could supply4 ,the making of good butter and cheese was part of her religion4 ,she would drop her voice and speak only in whispers of people--half criminals she thought them--whose puncheons were not properly cleansed1 whose butter might #8turn' and whose cheese might #8run4' ,arrived at #8,the ,house1' they would find the green cart waiting before the door4 ,then a farm hand would stroll leisurely round with ,fanny and put her into the shafts4 ,everything was done slowly at ,rolleston1 and bustle was unknown4 ,next would come ,sarah ,smith1 the maid1 with a basket after her kind4 ,then a help or out of-door servant1 with another after his kind4 ,a minute later some one bearing ducks or fowls with their legs tied4 ,these went ignominiously under the seat1 and took the cream1 as it were1 off ,kate's day4 ,their very obvious fate made her miserable1 but she cajoled herself into something like happiness by imagining that someone might buy them #8who didn't want to eat them and would put them to live in a nice place where they could be happy4' ,illustration3 ,,mrs4 ,,neale4 ,as the prospect of starting became more imminent1 ,mrs4 ,neale would arrive with the whip and a small basket4 ,then ,mr4 ,neale1 and the two young ,fryer nephews who lived with them1 would stroll round to see them off4 ,at the last moment would arrive baskets of plums1 apples1 pears1 and1 perhaps1 sage cheeses1 and a start would then be made4 ,the five miles into ,newark1 through ,staythorpe1 ,haverham1 and ,kelham1 where the ,suttons1 to whom nearly all ,rolleston belonged1 lived at #8,the ,hall1' was a progress of great enjoyment and variety1 for they knew not only all the people they met on the road1 but all the animals and all the crops1 and these had all to be discussed4 ,arrived at ,newark1 ,mrs4 ,neale was left at the inn1 whilst ,mary and ,kate went their rounds with the butter4 ,all the customers got to know ,kate1 and the little girl received a warm welcome year after year in the pretty red-brick1 green-vine-clad courtyards with which ,newark abounded4 ,when the butter was sold the shopping came1 and when all the necessary groceries and supplies had been laid in1 a stroll through the market-place1 where peppermints striped and coloured like shells were to be got4 ,why people bought groceries when they could afford peppermints ,kate didn't know4 ,in the market of course everything was on sale that could be imagined1 from butter to boots1 from pears to pigs1 from crockery to calves4 ,but it was the crockery that had a peculiar fascination for ,mary1 and many an unheard-of bargain made a hole in her thinly-lined pocket4 ,these pots were from ,staffordshire and became ,kate's cherished possession in after years4 ,at last there was the weary return to the inn-yard to find ,mrs4 ,neale1 who might or might not be ready to go home4 ,anyhow ,fanny and the cart were always welcome enough when the time came to exchange the confusion and hubbub of the town for the quiet country roads again4 ,it didn't matter what time they arrived home1 ,chappell would always be found watching for them at the gate4 ,tea was ready and they were hungry for it2 ,chappell1 too1 for he spent the whole afternoon on market days leaning over the gate4 ,it was his one chance in the week of seeing his acquaintances as they passed to ,newark1 and it was his one chance of buying pigs4 ,he had a weakness for pigs1 and he would stop every cart that had a likely one on board4 ,sometimes he would have out a whole load1 would bargain for half-an-hour1 and then refuse to have one4 ,time was of no consequence to him1 but the owner's wrath would be great1 for all the pigs that were wanted in ,newark might be bought before he could arrive there4 ,then the cart would be driven away to a blasphemous accompaniment1 leaving ,chappell blandly smiling1 placid and undisturbed4 ,this would be repeated many times until the pigs arrived which took his fancy4 ,on great and rare occasions1 ,kate would go to market with ,aunt ,aldridge in a high dog-cart behind a spanking horse named ,jack4 ,then she would have a taste of really polite society1 and would be taken to dine in a big room at the chief inn with the leading farmers and their wives4 ,for in the ,nottinghamshire of those days the farmers were in a large way1 prosperous and with plenty of money to spend4 ,it was quite a shock and surprise to her in after life to see farmers in other parts of the country little better than labourers4 ,for this reason she never cared for ,thomas ,hardy's books2 she never could get on terms with his characters4 ,but with ,george ,eliot's it was quite another matter4 ,mrs4 ,glegg1 ,mrs4 ,tulliver1 ,mrs4 ,poyser1 and the rest1 she had known all her life4 ,they were old friends and she felt at home with them at once4 ,illustration3 #8,,dadad' ,,and ,,ann ,,going ,,to ,,church4 ,kate was present at two great events at ,rolleston--a fire and a flood4 ,here is her own account of them3-- ,the fire happened in a cottage joining ,mrs4 ,neale's farm4 ,it joined the kitchen4 ,it was a blazing hot day in ,august1 in the morning1 about #aa o'clock1 when suddenly there were loud shrieks of #8,fire6' and ,i saw ,ann rushing to the gate shouting out #8,fire6' at the top of her voice1 quite unconscious of what she was doing4 ,it was far off us4 ,but the danger was to ,mrs4 ,neale's4 ,they all started off except ,ann and me4 ,then groups of people went rushing by to help2 by and by came my ,aunt ,aldridge and my sister ,lizzie and all the work-women and servants that could possibly be spared4 ,the small fire-engine was miles away at ,southwell1 so the men and women were formed into a long line from the house to the nearest point of the stream1 and passed buckets of water from hand to hand 7they could hardly use their hands for days afterwards74 ,but the cottage was burnt down and a bit of the roof of ,mrs4 ,neale's kitchen4 ,fortunately it stopped there1 but they moved all the things out of the house for fear it should not be saved4 ,the best bedroom floor of polished oak was so slippery the men could hardly walk about to move the things4 ,some of the men behaved disgracefully1 tapping the casks of wine and beer that had to be brought out into the yard4 ,i shall never forget my terror and fright of this day1 and to #8,mamam' it was as the end of all things4 ,one summer when we went down--the day was pouring wet1 it had been very rainy--,i went to the ,chappells'1 ,lizzie to ,aunt ,aldridge's4 ,when ,i got up the next morning ,i found a great event had taken place in the night--the floods were out--rose in the night4 ,they 7the ,chappells7 were called up about #aa o'clock and had to get up and go off to save their animals1 which all had to be brought home4 ,fortunately they were in time to save them all--others were not so lucky4 ,the house and the next house and the croft were high and dry4 ,the croft was filled with animals--sheep and calves4 ,when you looked out at the front gate1 each way you looked you saw a stream of muddy water rushing across the road4 ,there was a tendency to floods at ,rolleston1 only not bad like this4 ,both ,trent and ,greet overflowed and met and then flooded all over the country4 ,no houses at ,rolleston were washed away1 but the lower parts of the houses were flooded1 cellars and drains were filled up with water1 the contents floating on the top4 ,the people used to wait at the end of the street where the water rushed over1 and people who were passing in carts would drive them through the water1 and boys crossed over in washing-tubs4 ,a great many animals were drowned4 ,the ,neales lost a great many sheep4 ,after some days the floods began to subside and you could begin to get about1 and then my sister could get down to see me1 for we were quite separated for days4 ,after the water had all gone the country was horrible1 covered with mud and dead worms1 and it smelt dreadfully4 ,i stayed some weeks1 and before ,i left it had returned pretty much to its old look again4 ,this was the only time ,i was ever there in what they called #8the waters being out4' ,illustration3 ,,the ,,chappells' ,,cottage1 ,,farm1 ,,and ,,croft ,,at ,,rolleston4 ,drawn by ,kate ,greenaway when a young girl4 ,next we have a glimpse of ,kate making triumphant progresses in the corn-waggons and hay-carts as they rattled back empty to the fields4 ,the corn-waggons1 it must be admitted1 had a drawback in the little dark beetles--#8clocks' as the waggoners called them--which ran about and threatened her legs4 ,but these were soon forgotten in the near prospect of a ride back perched high on the ,harvest ,home load1 decked with green branches1 while the men chanted-- #8,mr4---- is a good man1 ,he gets his harvest as well as he can1 ,neither turned over nor yet stuck fast1 ,he's got his harvest home at last4 ,hip1 hip1 hip1 hurrah6' ,and she loved to sit on the stile watching for the postman4 ,in earliest days #8he was an imposing person who rode on a donkey and blew a brass trumpet4 ,if you wished to despatch a letter and lived alongside his beat you displayed it in your window to attract his attention4 ,when he saw a letter thus paraded1 he drew rein1 blew a blast1 and out you ran with your letter4 ,if you lived off his route you had to put your letter in somebody else's window4 ,so with the delivery4 ,aunt ,aldridge's letters1 for example1 were left at the ,chappells' and an old woman got a halfpenny a letter for taking them up to the ,odd ,house4' ,in those days the postman was clearly not made for man1 but man for the postman4 ,once and once only ,kate went fishing at the flour mill1 which had its water-wheel on the ,greet4 ,she sketches the scene vividly in a few words4 ,how lovely it all was1 she tells us--the lapping of the water against the banks of the reedy river1 the great heaps of corn1 the husks1 the floury sacks and carts1 the white-coated millers1 the clean white scent1 and1 above all1 the excitement of looking out for the fish6 ,what could be better than that8 ,it was about as good as good could be1 when of a sudden all was changed4 ,there was a jerk of the rod1 a brief struggle and a plunge1 and there lay a gasping fish with the hook in its silly mouth1 bleeding on the bank4 ,what could be worse than that8 ,it was about as bad as bad could be4 ,the sun had gone in4 ,the sky was no longer blue1 and misery had come into the world4 ,she loathed the task of carrying the poor dead things home to be cooked1 and she refused to partake of the dreadful dish4 ,it was all too sad4 ,the pleasant river and the bright glorious days were all over for them and she was not to be comforted4 ,and that was the end of ,kate's single fishing experience4 ,surely fate was in a singularly ironical mood when1 in later years1 it brought her a letter of hypercritical remonstrance because of her supposed advocacy of what the writer considered a cruel and demoralising sport6 ,indeed1 we have only to read her rhyme of #8,miss ,molly and the little fishes' in ,marigold ,garden to realise that her sentiments as a child remained those of the woman3 ,oh1 sweet ,miss ,molly1 ,you're so fond ,of fishes in a little pond4 ,and perhaps they're glad ,to see you stare ,with such bright eyes ,upon them there4 ,and when your fingers and your thumbs ,drop slowly in the small white crumbs1 ,i hope they're happy4 ,only this-- ,when you've looked long enough1 sweet miss1 ,then1 most beneficent young giver1 ,restore them to their native river4 ,in this fashion the little #8,lunnoner1' as she was always called1 got her fill of the country1 and her intimacy with more or less unsophisticated nature--a love which was her prevailing passion throughout her life4 ,her early education was alike unsatisfactory and varied1 for at that time it was extremely difficult to find girls' schools at once convenient of access and reasonable in price1 where the teaching was of any value4 ,after leaving ,mrs4 ,allaman's1 of whom mention has been made1 ,kate was handed over to a ,miss ,jackson1 where she remained only a few days4 ,thence she went to a ,miss ,varley1 but here also her career was a short one4 ,she soon fell ill1 #8under the strain1' said ,mrs4 ,greenaway1 #8of impossible lessons1' and was promptly removed4 ,then a trial was made of some ladies named ,fiveash4 ,here again ,kate's health flagged4 ,she herself was inclined to put it down to the fact that ,miss ,anne ,fiveash1 of whom she was otherwise fond enough1 had a cross eye1 which filled her with terror4 ,at any rate1 the new scheme succeeded no better than the old ones1 and this for the time being was an end of school4 ,henceforward the child's education was continued1 if it could properly be said yet to have begun1 by a lady who came two or three afternoons a-week to give lessons 7very bad ones they were7 in ,french and music4 ,this arrangement lasted for several years2 at the end of which time ,kate went back to ,miss ,fiveash's1 where she remained until she left school altogether4 ,during all this time she was drawing as much as she could in private4 ,illustration3 ,,thomas ,,chappell 7#8,,dadad'74 ,drawn in his old age by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,when ,kate was six years old her brother ,john was born2 and of course she remembered to her dying day all the clothes he ever had1 and all those which she and her sisters had at the same time2 and she notes the details of three of his earliest costumes which she remembered to good purpose4 ,first1 a scarlet pelisse1 and a white felt hat with feathers2 next1 a drab pelisse and a drab felt hat with a green velvet rosette2 and thirdly1 he was resplendent in a pale blue frock1 a little white jacket1 and a white ,leghorn hat and feather--all of which afterwards found resurrection in the ,greenaway picture-books4 ,there was always a deep bond of sympathy between ,mr4 ,greenaway and his little daughter1 whom1 by the way1 he nicknamed #8,knocker1' to which it amused him to compare her face when she cried4 ,her devotion to her father doubtless had far-reaching results1 for not only was ,mr4 ,greenaway an accomplished engraver1 but an artist of no mean ability4 ,and there was a fascination and mystery about his calling which made a strong appeal to her imagination4 ,on special occasions he would be commissioned to make drawings for the ,illustrated ,london ,news1 and then ,kate's delight would be unbounded4 ,the subject might be of ,queen ,victoria at some such ceremony as the opening of ,parliament2 or sometimes of some more stirring occurrence--such1 for example1 as that which necessitated the long journey into ,staffordshire to make sketches of the house and surroundings of the villainous doctor1 ,william ,palmer1 the ,rugeley murderer1 an event which stood out in her memory as of supreme interest and importance4 ,mr4 ,greenaway's office1 as long as ,kate could remember1 was #d1 ,wine ,office ,court1 ,fleet ,street4 ,there most of his work was done2 but when1 as frequently happened1 there was a scramble to get the wood blocks engraved in time for the press1 he would have to work the greater part of two consecutive nights4 ,then he would bring portions of his blocks home1 distributing the less important sections among his assistants1 so that the whole might be ready in the morning4 ,these were times of superlative pleasure to ,kate4 ,she would wake up about midnight and see the gas still burning outside in the passage4 ,this meant that her father was hard at work downstairs4 ,about one o'clock he would go to bed1 snatch an hour or two's sleep1 and be at it again until it was time to be off to the ,city4 ,this was his routine1 and ,kate quickly planned how to take advantage of it4 ,waiting till sister ,fanny was asleep1 she would slip out of bed1 hurry into her clothes1 all except her frock and shoes1 and1 covering them with her little nightgown1 creep back into bed again4 ,thus prepared for eventualities1 she would fall asleep4 ,but not for long4 ,somehow she would manage to wake again in the small hours of the morning and see if the light of the gas jet in the passage still shone through the chink of the door4 ,if it did1 she would climb with all quietness out of bed1 doff her nightdress1 slip into her frock1 take her shoes in her hand and creep softly down to the drawing-room1 where her father was at work4 ,then he would fasten her dress and she would set to work to make his toast4 ,and so the two would breakfast together alone in the early hours with supreme satisfaction4 99 99 99 99 99 ,here ,miss ,greenaway's autobiographical notes come to an abrupt termination1 save for a sheet of memoranda which stimulate but do not satisfy curiosity4 ,how1 we may ask1 did the #8,fear of ,water-taps' take her8--a fear which lasted all her life4 ,what confessions did she contemplate under the heading #8,my ,religious ,fit1' and #8,my ,fight1' and what episodes would have grouped themselves under #8,pincushions'8 ,illustration3 ,,explanatory ,,sketch ,,of ,,rolleston ,,cottage ,,farm4 ,gate to ,our ,bedroom4 ,mamam's ,bedroom4 ,gate to ,croft4 ,cart ,shed4 ,garden4 ,kitchen4 ,house4 ,parlour4 ,road4 ,illustration3 ,,john ,,greenaway 7,,father ,,of ,,kate ,,greenaway71 ,,wood-,,engraver1 ,,at ,,work4 ,pencil ,drawing by ,birket ,foster1 ,r4,w4,s4 ,in the possession of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 ,,chapter ,,iv ,,student ,,days ,,and ,,early ,,success3 ,,early ,,promise ,,and ,,art ,,classes--,,south ,,kensington ,,prizes--,,lady ,,butler--,,dudley ,,gallery--,,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,,loftie ,,and ,,messrs4 ,,marcus ,,ward--#8,,amateur ,,theatricals'--,,toy-,,books ,,and ,,fairy-,,tales--,,progress4 ,in #aheg the whole of ,great ,britain1 as has been said1 was stirred to its depths by the terrible events which were taking place in ,india4 ,people talked and thought of little else besides the ,mutiny1 and the papers1 prominent among them the ,illustrated ,london ,news1 properly played up to the public's dreadful hunger for literary and pictorial details4 ,many of the latter passed through the hands of ,mr4 ,greenaway1 and nothing was more natural than that ,kate1 with her inborn artistic capacity1 should try her hand at expressing the sensations so aroused1 pictorially4 ,here is her own memorandum on the subject1 written on an isolated leaf of the autobiographic notes3-- ,at the time of the ,indian ,mutiny ,i was always drawing people escaping4 ,i wish ,i had some of the old drawings1 but they were nearly always done on a slate and rubbed off again4 ,we knew all about it from the ,illustrated ,london ,news1 and the incident of the ,highland woman who heard the bagpipes made a great impression on me4 ,i could sit and think of the sepoys till ,i could be wild with terror1 and ,i used sometimes to dream of them4 ,but ,i was always drawing the ladies1 nurses1 and children escaping4 ,mine always escaped and were never taken4 ,fortunately1 ,kate's father and mother were not blind to the promise of these tentative efforts4 ,the root of the matter they felt was in her1 and the first opportunity must be taken of giving it a chance of growth and development4 ,this opportunity was not long in coming1 and by the time she was twelve years old her artistic education had already begun4 ,the first art class to which she went was that held at ,william ,street1 ,clerkenwell1 close to ,claremont ,square4 ,a girl-cousin 7one of the ,thornes7 was at that time being educated as a wood-engraver by ,mr4 ,john ,greenaway1 who sent his pupil to this evening class--a school in connection with the ,science and ,art ,department 7now the ,board of ,education74 ,so that she should not go alone1 his daughter was sent to bear her company2 and ,kate soon showed such undoubted signs of ability that it was decided her attendance should continue4 ,she was soon promoted to the day class carried on by ,miss ,doidge1 which was held at ,miss ,springet's school at ,canonbury ,house1 also under the ,science and ,art ,department1 and ,kate remained a member of it during its successive removals to ,st4 ,george's ,hall1 ,barnsbury ,street1 and ,myddleton ,hall1 close to the ,greenaways' dwelling4 ,to ,kate1 ,canonbury ,house was an ancient palace4 ,it was an interesting old place1 with beautiful moulded ceilings and a wonderful ,jacobean fireplace1 which is figured and described in ,nelson's ,history of ,islington4 ,it stood immediately behind ,canonbury ,tower1 which was said to have been one of ,queen ,elizabeth's innumerable hunting-boxes1 and was popularly believed to have subterranean passages leading to ,smithfield4 ,so satisfactory and encouraging was ,kate's progress--her first prize was gained when she was twelve years old--that in due time it was determined that she should make ,art her profession1 and she forthwith joined the chief school of the ,art ,department1 then under ,mr4 ,r4 ,burchett1 who soon formed a very high opinion of her talents and prospects4 ,in #ahfa she was awarded the bronze medal 7local71 ,stage #aj ,a2 in #ahfd the #8,national1' ,stage #bb2 and in #ahfi the silver 7,south ,kensington71 ,stage #ag ,b4#c ,the set of six tiles1 here reproduced1 display charming harmonies of colour4 ,one is composed of olive-green and two different yellows on a slate-blue ground1 while the flowers are outlined with white edges4 ,in another1 crimson-purple1 russet-yellow1 and blue are on a slate-grey ground2 and in a third the grey-blue flowers are outlined with white1 and grey-green1 violet1 purple1 and yellow tell richly on a brown ground4 ,the other schemes of colour are equally well combined1 and the pattern designs are all good1 and display a sense of grace and ability in line and arrangement4#d ,in addition to the awards mentioned1 ,kate received many book prizes in lieu of medals to which she was later entitled4 ,here she worked for several years with great diligence and thoroughness1 undaunted by difficulties and hardships such as fall to the lot of few students4 ,indeed1 so eagerly industrious was she that at the same time she attended the ,life ,classes at ,heatherley's1 and later on the newly opened ,london ,slade ,school1 then in charge of ,professor ,legros and his assistants4 ,illustration3 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,prize ,,student-,,work4 ,a facsimile reproduction in colour of one of the drawings for tiles shown in the plate illustrating the set of six4 ,it has often been said of ,kate ,greenaway that she did not sufficiently draw from the nude1 and1 as will be seen later on1 ,professor ,ruskin implored her to undertake this severer form of study1 in order to correct and improve her figure drawing2 and it has been too readily assumed that her training was lacking in this essential element of an artist's academic education4 ,as a matter of fact1 ,kate executed a vast number of careful studies from the figure1 both at ,heatherley's and at a studio which she occupied with ,miss ,elizabeth ,thompson 7afterwards ,lady ,butler7--who1 like ,miss ,helen ,paterson 7,mrs4 ,william ,allingham71 was her fellow-student at ,south ,kensington--and at her death between fifty and a hundred were still in existence4 ,many of them were in #8the old ,south ,kensington manner'--in pencil or chalk1 plenty of stump-work1 and heightening of the lights with white chalk3 dull1 uninspired things1 excellent in proportion and construction1 and not without use for the acquisition of knowledge of the human frame4 ,there were also short-time sketches1 but only a few of the chalk drawings have been preserved4 ,of these student days ,lady ,butler kindly sends the following note3-- ,she and ,i were keen competitors in the ,sketching ,club competitions at ,south ,kensington4 ,she was a very quiet student1 so that it is difficult to find anything striking to say of her4 ,i have no letters of hers and no sketches4 ,we were very good friends1 she and ,i1 in spite of our rivalry in the sketching club2 and indeed so quiet and peaceable a student was necessarily liked1 and she never1 to my knowledge1 gave trouble or offence to any one in the schools4 ,i wish ,i could give you more material1 but the character of the girl was such as to supply very little wherewith to make up a biographical sketch4 ,i only knew her at the schools1 not in her home life4 ,it may be added that ,miss ,thompson and ,kate ,greenaway were both such enthusiastic workers that they would bribe the custodian to lock them in when the other students were gone1 so that they might put in overtime4 ,such was the regularity and steady application of ,kate's eager student days4 ,by the time she was twenty-two she was exhibiting at the old ,dudley ,gallery a water-colour drawing entitled #8,kilmeny1' illustrating a versified legend1 and #8six little drawings on wood'3 the latter1 as we shall see1 fortunate enough to attract the attention of an excellent judge and discriminating editor4 ,this was in the year #ahfh1 and here1 in the old ,egyptian ,hall1 her work made its first public appearance4 ,then there came a series of small pictures in water-colour at the same gallery1 in which she already gave evidence of the bent which her brush was to follow with such remarkable success4#e ,even then her fancy was leading her back to the quaintly picturesque costume which was in vogue at the close of the eighteenth century4 ,not that her enthusiasm for our grandmothers' gowns at once tickled the fancy of the public4 ,that was to come4 ,indeed1 she herself was as yet only feeling her way1 though with remarkable deliberation and thoroughness4 ,no doubt it was in her first remunerative but anonymous work of designing valentines and ,christmas cards that the possibilities which lay in childhood archaically1 or at least quaintly1 attired first presented themselves to her1 but the goal was not to be reached without unstinted labour and active forethought4 ,her subsequent success rested upon the thoroughness with which she laid her foundations4#f ,she did not merely pick up an old book of costumes and copy and adapt them second-hand to her own uses4 ,she began from the very beginning1 fashioning the dresses with her own hands and dressing up her models and lay-figures in order to realise the effects anew4 ,she would not allow herself any satisfaction until her models lived and moved in her presence as their parents or grandparents had lived and moved in the previous century4 ,only then was she sure of her ground and could go forward with confidence4 ,illustration3 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,student-,,work4 ,set of ,tile ,drawings in ,colours1 executed at the age of #ag4 ,bronze ,medal awarded and ,drawing purchased by the ,science and ,art ,department4 ,at the risk of slightly anticipating later events1 there may be interpolated here the following facts1 dealing mainly with her early work1 kindly provided for our purposes by the ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie1 who has a legitimate source of pride in the fact that he was ,kate ,greenaway's first outside employer3 for work had already come to her through her father's instrumentality4 ,illustration3 ,early ,pencil ,sketch for a ,christmas ,card4 ,at the time of the first ,black and ,white ,exhibition 7#ahfh7 at the ,dudley ,gallery1 ,egyptian ,hall1 ,piccadilly1 ,mr4 ,loftie was editor of the ,people's ,magazine4 ,he was much pleased with a frame of six drawings on wood1 which were priced at #b3 #bs41 and he secured them at once4 ,the artist's name1 he found1 was #8,k4 ,greenaway1' and he was given the address3 ,miss ,kate ,greenaway1 ,upper ,street1 ,islington--a student at ,south ,kensington4 ,the drawings were equally divided between fairy scenes in outline and pictures of child life4 ,he used them in the magazine as occasion allowed1 and some of his leading contributors1 ,charles ,eden1 ,robert ,bateman1 ,john ,richard ,green1 who were charmed with their beauty1 wrote little tales or verses to suit one or other1 until three or four were disposed of4 ,but he was puzzled about the rest1 and eventually wrote to ask ,miss ,greenaway to tell him the subjects4#g ,she called immediately at the office4 ,she was very small1 very dark1 and seemed clever and sensible1 with a certain impressive expression in her dark eyes that struck every one4 ,her visit led to further acquaintance1 in which ,mrs4 ,loftie shared1 and she became a frequent visitor at #eg1 ,upper ,berkeley ,street1 where they then lived4 ,the magazine soon came to an end1 but ,miss ,greenaway was an artist who never disappointed her employers1 and before long many opportunities occurred for recommending her4 ,she had some work to do for ,kronheim ,co4 about that time1 but--forgetting1 apparently1 her excellent achievement at ,south ,kensington--she found a difficulty with colours4 ,like many beginners1 she imagined that a sufficient number of bright colours made a bright-coloured picture1 and being disappointed with the result1 complained to ,mr4 ,loftie4 ,so he got the little manual of ,colour-,harmony which was prepared by ,redgrave for the ,south ,kensington authorities and gave it to her4 ,in the meanwhile ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward of ,belfast had consulted ,mr4 ,loftie as to extending their business1 and proposed to carry out a scheme he had laid before them some time before for issuing artistic ,christmas cards and valentines in gold and colours4 ,miss ,greenaway entered into the idea with great zest1 but at first her designs were1 as she said herself1 gaudy4 ,a little study of colour-harmony soon showed her where the fault lay1 and she used to ask her friend to set her exercises in it--in primaries1 or secondaries1 or tertiaries1 as the case might be4 ,she derived extraordinary pleasure from studying the colour scale of such a picture as ,van ,eyck's #8,jean ,arnolfini and his ,wife' in the ,national ,gallery1 or ,gainsborough's so-called #8,blue ,boy4' ,it was only by incessant study of this kind earnestly pursued that she acquired the delicate and exquisite facility for figures and flowers in colour by which she soon became known4 ,meanwhile she drew constantly in black and white1 and illustrated a child's book1 ,topo1 by ,miss ,blood1 afterwards ,lady ,colin ,campbell1 which was published by ,messrs4 ,ward and speedily went out of print4 ,a volume of valentines1 ,the ,quiver of ,love1 was published about the same time1 and contained specimens of colour-printing by the same firm after her drawings and those of ,mr4 ,walter ,crane#h4 ,illustration3 ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,at the age of #af4 ,at the age of #ba4 ,miss ,greenaway worked very hard at the production of the designs for birthday cards and valentines4 ,they constantly improved in harmony of colour and delicacy of effect4 ,a curious chance revealed to her the wonders of medieval illumination4 ,mr4 ,loftie was engaged at the time on a volume of topographical studies for the ,society for the ,promotion of ,christian ,knowledge1 and wanted a copy from the pages of the book of ,benefactors of ,st4 ,albans ,abbey--,nero1 ,d4 #g1 in the ,,ms4 room at the ,british ,museum4 ,mr4 ,thompson1 better known as ,sir ,e4 ,maunde ,thompson1 ,principal ,librarian1 was head of the department1 and showed her many of the treasures in his charge1 and he arranged her seat and gave her every possible assistance4 ,she undertook to make a coloured drawing of ,abbot ,john of ,berkhampstead wringing his hands1 for ,mr4 ,loftie's book4 ,being still in want of work1 this particular job1 with its collateral advantages in learning1 pleased her very much4 ,another lady who was copying an illuminated border was her next neighbour at the same table1 and they seem to have made one another's acquaintance on the occasion4 ,in after years ,miss ,greenaway quaintly said #8this was the first duchess she had ever met'--the late ,duchess of ,cleveland1 ,lord ,rosebery's mother1 who was a notable artist1 and who died only a few months before ,miss ,greenaway herself4 ,as for the ,abbot1 the committee of the ,s4,p4,c4,k4 rejected him1 and the picture passed into and remained in ,mr4 ,loftie's possession4 ,it figured later in his ,london ,afternoons 7p4 #aaj71 as ,miss ,greenaway only a few days before her death gave him leave to make what use of it he pleased4 ,her first great success was a valentine4 ,it was designed for ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward1 whose ,london manager hardly recognised1 her introducer thought1 what a prize they had found4 ,the rough proof of the drawing1 in gold and colour1 is both crude and inharmonious1 but it has merits of delicacy and composition which account for the fact that the firm is said to have sold upwards of #be1jjj copies of it in a few weeks4 ,her share of the profits was probably no more than #c4 ,she painted many more on the same terms that year and the next1 and was constantly improving in every way as she became better acquainted with her own powers and with the capabilities1 at that time very slight1 of printing in colour4 #8,i have a beautiful design1' says ,mr4 ,loftie1 #8in the most delicate tints1 for another valentine1 which she brought me herself to show how much better she now understood harmony4 ,it was unfinished1 and in fact was never used by the firm4 ,i need not go into the circumstances under which she severed her connection with them1 but ,i well remember her remarkable good-temper and moderation4 ,in the end it was for her benefit4 ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans seized the chance1 and eventually formed the partnership which subsisted for many years1 till near the end of her life4' ,about the year #ahgi ,mr4 ,loftie met her one day at a private view in ,bond ,street4 ,she was always very humble about herself4 ,she was the very last person to recognise her own eminence1 and was always1 to the very end1 keen to find out if any one could teach her anything or give her a hint or a valuable criticism4 ,she was also very shy in general society1 and inclined to be silent and to keep in the background4 ,on this occasion1 however1 she received him laughing heartily4 #8,the lady who has just left me1' she said1 #8has been staying in the country and has been to see her cousins4 ,i asked if they were growing up as pretty as they promised4 8,yes10 she replied1 8but they spoil their good looks1 you know1 by dressing in that absurd ,kate ,greenaway style0--quite forgetting that she was talking to me6' ,kate would often repeat the story with much zest4 ,on two subsequent occasions did she execute work for books in which ,mr4 ,loftie was concerned4 ,in #ahgi he asked her for some suggestions for illustrations of ,mr4 and ,lady ,pollock's ,amateur ,theatricals in his #8,art at ,home' ,series 7,macmillan ,co474 ,she sent him half-a-dozen lovely sketches1 of which only three were accepted by the publishers4 ,the frontispiece1 #8,comedy1' a charming drawing1 was not well engraved4 ,a tail-piece on p4 #ag shows a slight but most graceful figure of a young girl in the most characteristic #8,kate ,greenaway' costume4 ,the third1 less characteristic1 is even more charming--#8,going on4' ,among the sketches was a #8,tragedy1' represented by a youthful ,hamlet in black velvet holding a large turnip apparently to represent the skull of ,yorick4 ,this was never completed4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,elf ,,ring4 ,from a large water-colour drawing in the possession of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 ,once again1 in #ahia1 she made a drawing at ,mr4 ,loftie's instance4 ,he was editing the fourth edition of the ,orient ,guide for ,mr4 ,j4 ,g4 ,s4 ,anderson1 the ,chairman of the ,orient ,line1 who had lately1 through his wife1 ,mrs4 ,garrett ,anderson1 ,m4,d41 made ,miss ,greenaway's acquaintance4 ,it was suggested that she might design a title-page for the guide1 which she did with alacrity1 refusing remuneration1 and only stipulating for the return of her drawing4 ,it was a charming border1 consisting of twelve delightful little girls and two little boys1 all #8,kate ,greenaway' children1 very dainty1 but extraordinarily inappropriate for the title-page of a steamship company's guide-book4 ,as soon as the introduction to ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward was brought about1 ,kate ,greenaway made a practice of consulting ,mr4 ,william ,marcus ,ward on the subject of her artistic and literary ambitions4 ,in the matter of her drawing and painting she bowed to his expert opinion1 unhesitatingly destroying her work when he told her that it was bad1 and for years profited by his kindly advice2 but when in the matter of her verses he told her that her efforts were #8rubbish and without any poetic feeling1' though she listened meekly enough1 she reserved her opinion--as we shall see in the event1 not without some measure of justification4 ,after working for the firm for six or seven years1 during which time her designs were trump cards in their annual pack1 she was advised by friends that the drawings ought to be returned to her after reproduction4 ,this new departure1 however1 did not meet with her employers' approval1 and the connection ceased4 ,amongst the early and unsigned work done for ,messrs4 ,kronheim1 who had a great colour-printing establishment in ,shoe ,lane1 may be mentioned ,diamonds and ,toads1 in #8,aunt ,louisa's ,london ,toy ,books' ,series 7published by ,frederick ,warne ,co471 containing six full-page unsigned drawings of no striking promise and crude in colour1 the harshness mainly due1 no doubt1 to the rude methods of engraving and colour-printing for children then in vogue4 ,far better was the work done in the same style and for the same firm in #ahga for a series of #8,nursery ,toy ,books' 7published by ,gall ,inglis71 amongst which may be mentioned1 for the sake of the collector1 ,the ,fair ,one with ,golden ,locks1 ,the ,babes in the ,wood1 ,blue ,beard1 ,tom ,thumb1 ,hop o' my ,thumb1 ,red ,riding ,hood1 ,the ,blue ,bird1 ,the ,white ,cat1 and ,puss in ,boots4 ,in these the illustrations1 remarkably well composed and drawn1 rise somewhat above the level of children's coloured books of the period4 ,the figures were mainly studied from members of her own family4 ,the letterpress consisted for the most part of translations from the ,fairy ,tales of ,madame la ,comtesse d',aulnoy1 the well-known author of the ,memoirs and ,voyages in ,spain1 who flourished at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century4 ,her fairy tales had been originally published in ,amsterdam in eight little volumes1 with thirty-three plates signed #8,s4 ,f4 inv4 et sc4'--a set very different from the fanciful illustrations of ,kate ,greenaway4 ,up to the year #ahga it is not possible to be very precise as to ,kate's progress towards the overwhelming popularity which she was so soon to win4 ,but from that time onwards her systematic keeping of accounts enables us to be definite4 ,besides the work done for ,messrs4 ,kronheim1 for which she was paid #cf1 we have the entry1 #8,happy ,wretched ,family1' #ajs42 #8,tracts' 7apparently for the ,religious ,tract ,society71 #b3 #es42 and commissions for a ,mr4 ,sheers and ,mr4 ,griffith1#i #bd3 #ajs42 the year's takings amounting to something over #gj4 ,the preceding year she had been represented at the ,dudley ,gallery by a water-colour drawing entitled #8,apple-,blossom--,a ,spring ,idyll'2 and in ,suffolk ,street1 for the first time1 by another entitled #8,a ,peeper1' representing children at play4 ,in #ahga too1 as we have seen from ,mr4 ,loftie's note1 she was designing ,christmas cards for ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward of ,belfast4 ,in these drawings she adopted the style of dress which she had seen as a child about the farm at ,rolleston1 where there was a survival of costumes which had long since disappeared from the towns and more #8progressive' villages and country districts1 adapting them to her purpose and filling her wardrobes with frocks1 bonnets1 and jackets and other garments1 partly conjured up from memory and partly invented4 ,she soon began to discover that she was creating a vogue4 ,she felt their quaintness and charm herself1 and was hardly surprised that others found them equally attractive4 ,and notwithstanding some doubts thrown by her father1 artist though he was1 upon her wisdom in proceeding upon these lines1 she determined to persist1 and events proved her instinct to be right4 ,fortunately1 her friend ,mr4 ,stacy ,marks1 ,r4,a41 at the moment of crisis gave her strong support1 and in the face of universal opposition urged her to continue in the path on which she had entered4 ,illustration3 ,,rapid ,,alternative ,,pencil ,,sketches ,,for ,,tragedy ,,as ,,title-,,page ,,to #8,,amateur ,,theatricals1' ,,by ,,walter ,,herries ,,pollock ,,and ,,mrs4 ,,pollock4 ,in the possession of ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie1 ,f4,s4,a4 ,in #ahgb she was designing yellow-back covers for ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans1 of whom much will be heard later4#aj ,at the same time she was doing more work for ,kronheim1 she found her way into the ,illustrated ,london ,news1 and she sold her pictures at the ,dudley ,gallery for something like #bj4 ,by #ahgc1 doubtless through the influence of her father1 who at that time was doing much work for ,messrs4 ,cassell1 ,petter1 ,galpin1 ,kate made her first appearance in ,little ,folks1 for which1 as well as for other publications of the firm1 she executed innumerable dainty and characteristic drawings4 ,this1 of course1 was mostly journeyman's work1 and she was hampered by having to express other people's ideas pictorially4 ,she never excelled as an illustrator1 and it was not till she had a free hand that she did herself full justice4 ,it was1 however1 an excellent school wherein to test her powers and to gain the experience which led her eventually to #8find herself4' ,in many of these wood-engravings it is interesting to notice the joint signature #8,k4 ,greenaway1 del41' and #8,j4 ,greenaway1 sc4' ,she disliked being bound by another person's imagination1 and her aversion to #8mere illustration' remained with her to the end4 ,as late as ,february #aijj1 when she was asked if she would make a drawing to a story by ,mrs4 ,m4 ,h4 ,spielmann1 she wrote3 #8,it would rather depend if ,i saw my way to making a good illustration4 ,i'm a very tiresome person and do things sometimes very badly4 ,i should1 if ,i could1 like to do it very much1 especially as it is ,mrs4 ,spielmann's4 ,i've not made any drawings for illustration for so long1 and now ,i've just taken a book to do6'#aa ,in this same year 7#ahgc7 her pictures at the ,dudley and ,suffolk ,street ,galleries found a market1 and #8,a ,fern ,gatherer1' at the ,royal ,manchester ,institution1 was bought by ,mr4 ,john ,lomax for fifteen guineas4 ,the following year 7#ahgd7 her gross earnings were #abj1 and she realised that she was progressing steadily in public favour4 ,kate was now a person of some importance in the ,greenaway establishment4 ,not only had she adopted a profession1 but she was making that profession pay1 and the time was coming when she felt that there should be some tangible sign1 at least so far as she was concerned1 of the improvement in their fortunes4 ,it was a cause of profound gratification to her mother1 who1 by dint of thrift and self-sacrifice and devotion amounting almost to heroism1 had been enabled to realise her ambition to educate each of her children to the greatest advantage4 ,her eldest daughter was sent to the ,royal ,academy of ,music2 her son to the ,royal ,college of ,chemistry2 and ,kate to ,south ,kensington and ,heatherley's4 ,all of them were on the high-road to success1 and a sense of satisfaction and good-humour permeated the household4 ,good-humour1 indeed1 was characteristic of ,kate1 and to this sweetness of disposition and thoughtfulness for others she owed not a little of her success4 ,artists' grown-up models are often difficult enough to manage1 but child-models are apt to prove exasperating2 and it was due only to her infinite tact and unwearying resourcefulness in inventing amusements and distractions for her little sitters that she coaxed them into good temper and into displaying the charm which she was so successful in reproducing4 ,during the last year or two spent in ,islington1 ,kate rented near by a room which she fitted up as a studio1 but about #ahgc or #ahgd she and her father between them bought the lease of a house in ,pemberton ,gardens1 where the family lived till #ahhe4 ,her friend ,mrs4 ,miller writes of her at this period3 #8,she was then as ever gentle1 patient1 industrious1 exquisitely sensitive1 extraordinarily humorous1 while under and over it all was an indomitable will4 ,i always remember one little remark she made to me once when we were walking from her home in ,islington to a little room she had taken as a studio 7her first7 in a side street4 ,it was wet and miserable1 the streets vulgar and sordid4 8,never mind10 she said1 8,i shall soon be in the spring40 ,the first primrose she drew upon the sheet before her would place her in another world4 ,she loved all sorts of street music1 and once said to me1 8,the moment ,i hear a band1 ,i am in fairyland40' ,illustration3 ,,john ,,greenaway1 ,,esq4 ,pencil ,sketch by ,kate ,greenaway of her brother at study 7about #ahgj74 ,in #ahgd ,kate ,greenaway illustrated a little volume of fairy stories1 issued in coloured boards by ,griffith ,farran1 entitled ,fairy ,gifts2 or ,a ,wallet of ,wonders4 ,it was written by ,kathleen ,knox1 the author of ,father ,time's ,story-,book1 and contained four full-page and seven small woodcuts1 engraved by ,john ,greenaway4 ,the more important illustrations are prettily composed1 while revealing a fine taste in witches and apparitions2 and the small sketches are daintily touched in4 ,it was ,kate's first appearance on any title-page4 ,there was nothing remarkable in the little volume1 yet it met with considerable popular favour4 ,the first edition consisted of #b1jjj copies2 in #ahhj it was reprinted to the extent of half as many4 ,in #ahhb a cheap edition of #e1jjj copies was issued1 and later in the year this large number was repeated4 ,to what extent the artist shared in the success does not appear4 ,the year #ahge1 so far as earnings were concerned1 was a lean year1 and introduced the names of no new clients4 ,this does not indicate that her activity was any the less than the year before4 ,indeed1 we must remember that in the life of the artist results1 so far as monetary reward is concerned1 represent previous rather than contemporaneous activity1 for payment is made certainly after the work is sold1 and in the case of work for the press as often as not after publication4 ,in the following year 7#ahgf7 her earnings again ran into #bjj1 her water-colour drawing at the ,dudley being sold for twenty guineas1 and her two black-and-white drawings for ten guineas the pair4 ,but the crowning event of this year was the publication by ,mr4 ,marcus ,ward of the volume mentioned by ,mr4 ,loftie1 entitled #8,the ,quiver of ,love1 a ,collection of ,valentines1 ,ancient and ,modern1 with ,illustrations in ,colours from ,drawings by ,walter ,crane and ,k4 ,greenaway4' ,all the designs had already been published separately4 ,the verses were mainly from the pen of ,mr4 ,loftie himself1 although he is modest enough not to claim them in his notes4 ,none of the illustrations in this volume is signed1 but the following are the productions of ,kate ,greenaway3 7#a7 ,the ,frontispiece2 7#b7 the illustration to #8,do ,i love you8' by ,julia ,goddard2 7#c7 that to #8,the ,surprise1' anonymous2 and 7#d7 that to #8,disdain1' by ,f4 ,r4 ,it would have been difficult to arrive at their authorship without unexceptionable evidence1 had not ,mr4 ,walter ,crane identified his part in the publication4 ,probably1 had not ,kate ,greenaway's name appeared on the title-page1 it would scarcely have occurred to any one1 even to those best acquainted with her work1 that she had had any hand in the production at all4 ,the volume is merely interesting as a curiosity4 ,it is not surprising to learn that the republication in permanent form1 with his name attached1 of ephemeral and unsigned work executed for the butterfly existence of a valentine1 did not commend itself to ,mr4 ,crane2 and to neither artist did any profit accrue4 ,illustration3 ,book-plate designed for ,miss ,maud ,locker-,lampson4 ,,chapter ,v #ahgg-ahgh ,,the ,,triumph ,,of #8,,under ,,the ,,window'3 ,,royal ,,academy--,,mr4 ,,and ,,mrs4 ,,edmund ,,evans--,,mr4 ,,evans',s ,,colour-,,printing--,,john ,,ruskin ,,on ,,kate ,,greenaway--#8,,topo'--,,randolph ,,caldecott1 ,,and ,,mr4 ,,walter ,,crane4 ,illustration ,so far ,kate had been going through the usual experiences of the free-lance who with pen or pencil in hand sets forth to win recognition from the public4 ,public taste is the hardest thing in the world to gauge by those who would be original according to their talents1 and harder still is it to arrest attention1 save by gasconades of which she certainly was wholly incapable4 ,hitherto she had been the servant eager to please the whim of her master1 but the time was coming when she would call the tune and the public would delight to dance to it4 ,kate ,greenaway was now in her thirty-third year1 and1 though fairly prosperous1 could scarcely consider herself successful4 ,commissions were certainly coming in faster and faster1 and in #ahgg1 when she took her studio to ,college ,place1 ,liverpool ,road1 ,islington1 her earnings had nearly reached #cjj2 but she had not yet made any great individual mark4 ,she appeared in the ,royal ,academy ,exhibition and sold her picture #8,musing' for twenty guineas4 ,she was a recognised contributor to the ,dudley ,gallery1 and was pretty sure of buyers there4 ,she was getting more or less regular employment on the ,illustrated ,london ,news4 ,she had been asked by ,mr4 ,w4 ,l4 ,thomas of the newly established ,graphic to provide him with a running pictorial full-page story after the manner of ,caldecott1 and had succeeded in satisfying his fastidious taste1 though the first sketch-plan which she sent seemed to him lacking in humour4 #8,they strike me1' he wrote1 #8as being a little solemn in tone4' ,but this defect was soon rectified1 and the result was so greatly admired that it led to many further commissions from the artist-editor4 ,these were gratifying and encouraging results1 but in ,kate's opinion they were but the prizes of the successful artist-hack4 ,her name had not yet passed into the mouth of the town4 ,though she had drawn many charming pictures1 she had not yet drawn the public4 ,what was true of the public was true of the publishers4 ,though ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward of ,belfast had seen the possibilities that lay in her designs for valentines1 ,christmas cards1 and the like1 and had achieved a real success by their publication1 ,kate was but yet only the power behind the throne4 ,she was the hidden mainspring of a clock with the maker's name upon the dial4 ,now all this was to be changed by a business arrangement1 almost amounting to a partnership1 in which she was to take her full share of the credit as well as of the spoil4 ,the story will be best told in the words of the man who so boldly backed his opinion as to print a first edition of #bj1jjj copies of a six-shilling book written and illustrated by a young lady who could hardly yet be said to have commanded anything like wide public approval4 ,this was ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans4 ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans was primarily a colour-printer2 his wood-engraving department was subsidiary4 ,for the purposes of his business he owned a good many machines2 he had three houses full of them in the ,city1 and he was sometimes puzzled to find work to keep them going1 to do which is at the root of commercial economy and success in his business4 ,he printed most of the #8yellow-backs' of the time1 covers for books as well as for small magazines of a semi-religious character1 working-men's magazines1 and so forth1 all with much colour-work in them4 ,mr4 ,evans also executed much high-class work of the kind1 such as ,doyle's ,chronicles of ,england1 which had done much to make his reputation4 ,therefore1 to fill up the spare time during which his machines would otherwise be idle1 he began publishing the toy-books of ,mr4 ,walter ,crane1 then those of ,randolph ,caldecott1 and finally he turned his attention to ,miss ,kate ,greenaway4 ,it should be recorded to the credit of ,mr4 ,evans that he excelled all others in the skill with which he produced his colour-effects with a small number of printings4 ,mr4 ,john ,greenaway1 himself an expert in the preparation of blocks for colour-printing1 as well as an artist of much intelligence1 used to declare that no other firm in ,london could come near the result that ,edmund ,evans would get with as few1 say1 as three colour-blocks1 so wonderful was his ingenuity1 so great his artistic taste1 and so accurate his eye4 ,mr4 ,evans informs us3 ,i had known ,john ,greenaway1 father of ,k4 ,g41#ab since ,i was fourteen years of age4 ,he was an assistant engraver to ,ebenezer ,landells1#ac to whom ,i was apprenticed4 ,i knew he was having one of his daughters educated for the musical profession and another for drawing4 ,i had only seen engravings made from drawings on wood by #8,k4 ,g4' for ,cassell ,co41 as well as some ,christmas cards by ,marcus ,ward ,co4 from water-colour drawings of very quaint little figures of children4 ,very beautiful they were1 for they were beautifully lithographed4 ,about #ahgg-gh ,k4 ,g4 came to see us at ,witley1 bringing a collection of about fifty drawings she had made1 with quaint verses written to them4 ,i was fascinated with the originality of the drawings and the ideas of the verse1 so ,i at once purchased them and determined to reproduce them in a little volume4 ,the title ,under the ,window was selected afterwards from one of the first lines4 ,at the suggestion of ,george ,routledge ,sons ,i took the drawings and verses to ,frederick ,locker1 the author of ,london ,lyrics1 to #8look over' the verses1 not to rewrite them1 but only to correct a few oddities which ,george ,routledge ,sons did not quite like or understand4 ,locker was very much taken with the drawings and the verses1 and showed them to ,mrs4 ,locker with quite a gusto2 he asked me many questions about her1 and was evidently interested in what ,i told him of her4 ,i do not think that he did anything to improve the verses1 nor did ,k4 ,g4 herself4 ,locker soon made her acquaintance and introduced her into some very good society4 ,she often stayed with them at ,rowfant1 ,sussex1 and also at ,cromer4 ,george ,eliot was at the time staying at ,witley4 ,she called on us one day and saw the drawings and was much charmed with them4 ,a little time afterwards ,i wrote to ,george ,eliot to ask if she would write me a short story of1 or about1 children suitable for ,k4 ,g4 to illustrate4 ,her reason for refusing was interesting3-- #8,,the ,,heights1 ,,witley1 ,october #bb1 #ahgi4 #8,dear ,mr4 ,evans--,it is not my way to write anything except from my own inward prompting4 ,your proposal does me honour1 and ,i should feel much trust in the charming pencil of ,miss ,greenaway1 but ,i could never say 8,i will write this or that0 until ,i had myself felt the need to do it4444--,believe me1 dear ,mr4 ,evans1 yours most sincerely1 ,m4 ,e4 ,,lewes4' ,after ,i had engraved the blocks and colour-blocks1 ,i printed the first edition of #bj1jjj copies1 and was ridiculed by the publishers for risking such a large edition of a six-shilling book2 but the edition sold before ,i could reprint another edition2 in the meantime copies were sold at a premium4 ,reprinting kept on till #gj1jjj was reached4#ad ,i volunteered to give ,k4 ,g4 one-third of the profit of this book4 ,it was published in the autumn of #ahgi4 ,we decided to publish ,the ,birthday ,book for ,children in #ahhj4 ,miss ,greenaway considered that she should have half the profits of all books we might do together in future1 and that ,i should return to her the original drawings after ,i had paid her for them and reproduced them4 ,to both these terms ,i willingly agreed4#ae 444 ,then came the ,birthday ,book1 ,mother ,goose1 and part of ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life1 in #ahha2 ,little ,ann1 #ahhc2 the ,language of ,flowers1 ,kate ,greenaway's ,painting-,book1 and ,mavor's ,spelling-,book1 #ahhd-he2 ,marigold ,garden and ,a ,apple ,pie1 #ahhf2 ,the ,queen of ,the ,pirate ,isle and ,the ,pied ,piper of ,hamelin1 #ahhg2 ,the ,book of ,games1 #ahhh2 ,king ,pepito1 #ahhi4 ,besides the above and a certain number of smaller issues1 minor works1 and detached designs1 the artist was responsible for an ,almanack from #ahhc to #ahig1 with the sole exception of the year #ahif4 ,the books named above are those which we did together4 ,there is a little story my daughter ,lily tells of her tenderness towards animals4 ,she was walking one day and came upon a stream with a rat sitting on a stone4 ,lily wished to startle it1 and was about to throw a stone in the water1 but ,k4 ,g4 exclaimed--#8,oh1 don't1 ,lily1 perhaps it's ill6' ,we all loved her4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,little ,,model4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,mrs4 ,f4 ,st4 ,g4 ,whitly4 ,this interesting account of what is one of the most important events in ,kate's life may be supplemented by the following charming sketch taken from an article written by ,mrs4 ,edmund ,evans at the request of the editor of the ,girl's ,own ,paper1 shortly after her death4 ,it was published on ,december #bf1 #aija1 together with a photograph of the artist taken by ,miss ,lily ,evans and four pen-and-ink drawings done by ,kate ,greenaway for the ,evans children4 ,miss ,lily ,evans was ,mr4 ,evans's second daughter and a special favourite with ,kate ,greenaway1 who dedicated ,mother ,goose to #8,lily and ,eddie' 7,kate ,greenaway's nephew71 #8the two children she loved most in the world4' ,kate ,greenaway 7wrote ,mrs4 ,evans7 had a very interesting personality1 and was extremely fond of the country and of flowers1 and could draw them beautifully1 and always liked those best of a more simple form--not orchids nor begonias2 she loved daffodils and roses1 and few things gave her more pleasure than a copse yellow with primroses4 ,her favourite time of year was when apple trees were in blossom2 she especially liked them when they were in the garden of a picturesque farm or cottage4 ,one such cottage at ,hambledon1 ,surrey1 she particularly admired1 where a green door had faded to a peacock blue4 ,she liked only blue and white skies2 stormy effects gave her no pleasure4444 #8,the sincerest form of flattery' 7imitation7 annoyed her1 and did her reputation harm1 as her many imitators went beyond1 in fact out-,kate-,greenawayed ,kate ,greenaway in their caricatures1 and many people did not know one from the other4 ,she herself was waiting in a bookseller's shop at ,hastings1 and a lady came in and asked for ,kate ,greenaway's books4 ,the shopman spread a handful out before her4 ,the lady asked1 #8,are those all by ,kate ,greenaway8' ,the man assured her they were4 ,kate ,greenaway was near enough to see that not one was her work4 ,she had a very affectionate nature1 very tender-hearted--seeing even an insect in pain wounded her4 ,she could not tolerate flies caught in traps1 or see a beetle or a spider killed4 ,seeing a mouse in a trap tempted her to set it free2 in fact1 the #8cruelty of nature' in the animal world quite troubled her4 7,she could not understand it or reconcile it with the goodness of ,god4#af7 ,dogs and cats recognised this quality by showing their devotion and imposing on her good-nature4 ,she would never even scold them4 ,this was simply kindness--not indicating a weak nature4 ,she was a decidedly strong-minded woman4 ,of ,kate ,greenaway's letters ,mrs4 ,evans writes3-- ,i am sorry now ,i did not keep her letters4 ,they were often very interesting and unlike ordinary people's1 but when ,i had a great many it did not seem worth while1 and ,i never do keep letters4 ,as you know1 she was so unassuming and homely1 and liked our unostentatious way of living so much1 it was difficult to realise she was a celebrated person4 ,here1 however1 is one which has escaped destruction3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,evans ,undated4 ,dear ,mrs4 ,evans--,the flowers came quite safely4 ,i am always so pleased when the postman brings the little box4 ,how strange and beautiful the daffodil is--,i never saw one like it before4 ,also thank ,w4 for the snowdrops4 ,the party was not very lively1 only a few children4 ,the songs sounded so well4 ,the #ab ,miss ,pelicoes very funny1 and the procession song pretty4 ,also there was an sthetic artist there--real genuine sort--who drank in the ,elgin marbles for recreation4 ,no wonder du ,maurier hates them4 ,the other day ,i heard ,i was sixty6--to-day ,i hear ,i am making #bjjj a year6 ,i don't think you'd find it worth while to come up for the ,dudley4 ,i like to meet the people1 of course2 they are very funny4 ,i saw ,mrs4---- the other day at the ,old ,masters' in a crimson velvet pelisse2 everybody stared and smiled4 ,she is very pretty1 but so much commoner than ,mrs4----4---- ,with love1 ,k4 ,,greenaway4 ,of ,under the ,window1 which was published at the end of #ahgh1 it is no exaggeration to say that it was epoch-making2 its popularity was such that ,kate tasted the bitter-sweet experience--shared in our own time by ,frederick ,sandys in respect of his great skit on ,millais's #8,sir ,isumbras at the ,ford1' and by ,mr4 ,brandon ,thomas in respect of ,charley's ,aunt--of finding her work coolly appropriated by others4 ,one--a lady of ,twickenham--calmly gave herself out as the artist-author1 explaining that she had preferred to issue her work under an assumed name4 ,to enter into an elaborate description of the book would be superfluous1 for it still holds its place in every properly constituted children's library1 and should be constantly taken out for renewed inspection4 ,so1 too1 would it be superfluous to make extensive quotations from the eulogiums of the reviewers4 ,we may content ourselves with the following prophecy from the ,saturday ,review1 which seems now to be within measure of its fulfilment4 #8,in time1' the writer says1 #8the hands of children will wear away1 and their pencils and paint-brushes deface ,miss ,kate ,greenaway's beautiful1 fantastic1 and dainty work ,under the ,window4 ,probably some wise collector will lay up a little stock for future use while the impressions are in their first freshness4 ,his treasure will come to be as valuable as that parcel of unbound and uncut ,elzevirs which ,mottley found in ,hungary1 and which1 after filling the hearts of bibliophiles with joy for years1 was burned by the ,commune4' ,there are1 however1 one or two facts connected with the book which demand attention4 ,in the first place1 it must be borne in mind that from this moment ,kate ,greenaway's name became a household word1 not only in ,great ,britain1 but in a vast number of homes on the continents of ,europe and ,america4 ,in the second place1 that now for the first time she was not hampered in her published work by adapting her fancy to the literary ideas of other people1 but was inspired by subjects which came red-hot from the furnace of her own imagination4 ,this is a matter of no little importance4 ,it is clear that the ideal illustrator of a literary idea1 if only the technical skill is not wanting1 is the person to whose mind that idea first presents itself4 ,in the mind of any other the conception is but a second-hand affair1 and but the reflection1 more or less accurate1 of the original1 conveyed on to the mental retina of the artist through the somewhat opaque medium of language4 ,the writer alone knows exactly what he means and what he wants4 ,his pencil may be unskilled1 but it is nerved by the original thought4 #8,i wish to goodness ,i could put it upon paper myself1' said ,barham to ,bentley1 writing about an illustration for the ,mousquetaire1 even while ,cruikshank and ,leech were at his service4 ,it is because ,thackeray had the double gift that his drawings1 although so weak in execution1 yet so evidently imbued with the living literary inspiration1 so greatly commend themselves to those who look for genuine sincerity of inspiration1 and not only for beauty of composition and execution4 ,that is why the world revelled in du ,maurier's ,peter ,ibbetson and ,trilby1 and why ,blake's ,songs of ,innocence and ,experience is one of the completest and most harmonious books in existence4 ,what ,blake did1 ,kate ,greenaway was now enabled to do1 in her own fashion1 in ,under the ,window4 ,she was expressing her own literary thoughts and at the same time treating them pictorially4 ,one word about her verses1 of which more will be said later on4 ,alone they would probably not have attracted much serious attention1 and doubtless would have met with criticism4 ,for there are in them faults of scansion1 rhythm1 and rhyme which it is easy enough to reprobate4 ,but their sincerity1 gaiety1 and feeling appealed to such unimpeachable judges as ,frederick ,locker and ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson1 the latter of whom declares1 #8,she was very deficient in technique1 but she had the root of the matter in her4' ,during the last months of her life she found much pleasure in composing many more of those charming little verses1 of which examples will be found in a later portion of this book4 ,here is an amusing sample from ,under the ,window1 written for children3 ,five little sisters walking in a row2 ,now1 isn't that the best way for little girls to go8 ,each had a round hat1 each had a muff1 ,and each had a new pelisse of soft green stuff4 ,five little marigolds standing in a row2 ,now1 isn't that the best way for marigolds to grow8 ,each with a green stalk1 and all the five had got ,a bright yellow flower1 and a new red pot4 ,it must not be supposed that ,kate had any illusions about her literary gifts1 or that she placed her own productions on a par with those of others whose work she illustrated4 ,but she preferred her liberty and found her pencil better inspired by her own pen than by the pens of others with whom she was called upon to collaborate4 ,other verses were obviously cleverer and daintier than hers1 but her own simple thoughts were more in harmony with her delightful little pictures4 ,illustration3 #8,,mary ,,had ,a ,,little ,,lamb4' ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn4 ,it was not only the critics but the public who acclaimed her1 for she had got at the secret of the beauty and charm of childhood1 and the appeal was universal4 ,as ,mr4 ,lionel ,robinson wrote3-- ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson4 ,the moment selected for striking this note was well chosen4 ,abroad and at home the claims of children were asserting themselves more loudly than ever4 ,german and ,french artists had alike proved unequal to the task1 notwithstanding the temporary popularity of ,l4 ,frhlich1 of ,ludwig ,richter1 and1 in a high degree1 of ,edouard ,frre and others4 ,clever as many of these showed themselves1 they failed to render the more transient graces of little children1 whilst they were1 with the exception of ,frre1 apparently indifferent to the bright surroundings and beauties of nature with which ,miss ,greenaway heightened the charm of her work4 ,it is this absolute harmony between the figures and the landscape which makes her work so complete4 ,mr4 ,ruskin devoted one of his lectures at ,oxford to the place occupied by ,miss ,greenaway in modern art1 and bestowed upon her praise without stint4 #8,observe1' said he1 #8that what this impressionable person does draw she draws as like as she can4 ,it is true that the combination or composition of things is not what you see every day4 ,you can't every day1 for instance1 see a baby thrown into a basket of roses2 but when she has once pleasantly invented that arrangement for you1 baby is as like baby and rose as like rose as she can possibly draw them4 ,and the beauty of them is in being like1 they are blissful just in the degree that they are natural2 the fairyland that she creates for you is not beyond the sky nor beneath the sea1 but near you1 even at your doors4 ,she does but show you how to see it1 and how to cherish4' ,when the original drawings for ,under the ,window were exhibited at the ,fine ,art ,society two years later1 the critics vied with one another in their applause4 ,ruskin in particular exhausted the splendour of his vocabulary in his praise of their unaffected beauty1 their sweetness and navet1 their delicacy of sentiment1 subtlety of humour1 and the exquisiteness of technique1 and what he added to the artist privately has already been quoted here4 ,furthermore ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson wrote that #8since ,stothard1 no one has given us such a clear-eyed1 soft-faced1 happy-hearted childhood2 or so poetically 8apprehended0 the coy reticences1 the simplicities1 and the small solemnities of little people4 ,added to this1 the old-world costume in which she usually elects to clothe her characters lends an arch piquancy of contrast to their innocent rites and ceremonies4 ,her taste in tinting1 too1 is very sweet and spring-like2 and there is a fresh1 pure fragrance about all her pictures as of new-gathered nosegays4' ,wherefore it is evident that the success was as deserved as it was instantaneous4 ,nor was it due only to the fortunate moment chosen for launching the book4 ,there was at least one other felicitous circumstance3 ,miss ,greenaway was exceptionally fortunate in her interpreter1 who had brought colour-printing by means of wood blocks to a pitch of excellence never before attempted4 ,a description1 therefore1 of the process is of exceptional interest4 ,the following account of the method is taken from notes supplied by ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans himself4 ,in the first place1 a photograph is taken and printed on the whitened surface of the wood from the original drawing in line4 ,this is engraved as faithfully as possible1 no notice being taken at this stage of colour4 ,from the engraving thus made #8transfers1' #8sets off1' or #8proofs' are pulled in dark brown or black ink4 ,these1 laid face downwards on the blocks prepared for the colour printing1 which equal in number the colours to be used1 are passed through the press4 ,by this means the wet ink is transferred and set-off on to the blocks1 and a number of facsimiles of the original drawing are ready for the engraver1 who prepares for his work by painting-in1 on each1 that part of the tinting which is to be printed from that particular block4 ,on one he paints in all the red that is to be used and engraves so much on that block1 on the next all the blue that is to be used and engraves so much on that block1 and so on until all the colours are represented1 some of them overlapping or superimposed where they have to cross and modify other colours4 ,then the engraver sets to work with his engraving until he has prepared a separate block for each colour4 ,in theory of course a proof printed from each block should exactly reproduce the blue1 red1 and other colours used in the original picture1 but1 #8alas1' as ,mr4 ,evans says1 #8the eye1 brain1 and hand of the engraver are not up to the eye1 brain1 and hand of the painter1' so that the print suffers by comparison4 ,no doubt the coloured inks can be ground and mixed as surely as by the painter on his palette1 but the mechanical print must ever come short of the nerve-driven original4 ,when all the proofs taken from the several blocks are pronounced satisfactory1 a print is taken from the key block4 ,upon that is superimposed a print from the other blocks charged each with its properly coloured ink1 the greatest care being taken to get the #8register' correct--that is to say1 that each block is printed accurately in its place upon the paper with relation to those which have gone before4 ,from this it will be seen how important it is that the colours used should be as few as possible so as to keep within bounds the cost of engraving and to simplify the difficulties of printing4 ,of course1 had ,kate ,greenaway worked in the twentieth century1 the conditions would have been altogether different4 ,now coloured wood-engravings have been almost wholly superseded by the #8,three-,colour ,process1' which owes its rise to the possibilities which have been found to lie in the use of filtering screens1 bichromate of potash1 and metal plates--possibilities of which full advantage has been taken in this volume4 ,illustration3 ,,bubbles #8,see the pretty planet6 ,floating sphere6 ,faintest breeze will fan it ,far or near4' ,from a pen and water-colour drawing by ,kate ,greenaway in the possession of the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby1 being an illustration for ,rhymes for the ,young ,folk1 by ,william ,allingham 7,cassell ,co471 here reproduced in two methods 7by permission of ,messrs4 ,frederick ,warne ,co47 for the sake of comparison4 #a 7on left74--,engraved on #h wood-blocks and printed by ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans4 ,the brighter1 yellower tone is adopted probably by subsequent direction of the artist4 #b 7on right74--,a true facsimile of the drawing1 executed by the #8three-colour process4' ,n4,b4--,a single large bubble was afterwards substituted by way of correction before publication1 the poem which the drawing was to illustrate being entitled #8,the ,bubble4' ,even with these advantages1 we cannot entirely reproduce the daintiness and incisiveness of her drawing1 the transparency and brilliancy of her colouring1 the microscopic touch of the stipple1 the delicacy of the greys1 and the inexpressible charm of the whole4 ,the three-colour process at its best is1 after all1 mechanical1 and just falls short of giving #8the spider's touch1 so delicately fine1' which #8feels at each thread and lives along the line4' ,near to perfection it has got1 especially when dealing with full-coloured drawings1 but it cannot be said that any one who has not seen the originals can estimate to the full the charm and daintiness of these pictures1 which seem to have been blown rather than painted on to the paper4 ,bartolozzi with his clever graver doubtless improved the work of those for whom he acted as middleman1 but it would have taken a greater than ,bartolozzi to have bettered 7except in the academic quality of the drawing7 the work of ,kate ,greenaway4 ,in his #8,lecture on ,mrs4 ,allingham and ,kate ,greenaway' in ,the ,art of ,england 7published by ,mr4 ,george ,allen7 ,ruskin said3 ,i may best indicate to you the grasp which the genius of ,miss ,kate ,greenaway has taken upon the spirits of foreign lands1 no less than her own1 by translating the last paragraph of the entirely candid1 and intimately observant1 review of modern ,english art given by ,monsieur ,ernest ,chesneau1 in his small volume1 ,la ,peinture ,anglaise4444 ,he gives first a lovely passage 7too long to introduce now7 upon the gentleness of the satire of ,john ,leech1 as opposed to the bitter malignity of former caricature4 ,then he goes on3 #8,the great softening of the ,english mind1 so manifest already in ,john ,leech1 shows itself in a decisive manner by the enthusiasm with which the public have lately received the designs of ,mr4 ,walter ,crane1 ,mr4 ,caldecott1 and ,miss ,kate ,greenaway4 ,the two first-named artists began by addressing to children the stories of ,perrault and of the ,arabian ,nights1 translated and adorned for them in a dazzling manner2 and1 in the works of all these three artists1 landscape plays an important part2--familiar landscape1 very ,english1 interpreted with a 8bonhomie savante0' 7no translating that71 #8spiritual1 decorative in the rarest sense--strange and precious adaptation of ,etruscan art1 ,flemish and ,japanese1 reaching1 together with the perfect interpretation of nature1 to incomparable chords of colour harmony4 ,these powers are found in the work of the three1 but ,miss ,greenaway1 with a profound sentiment of love for children1 puts the child alone on the scene1 companions him in all his solitudes1 and shows the infantine nature in all its navet1 its gaucherie1 its touching grace1 its shy alarm1 its discoveries1 ravishments1 embarrassments1 and victories2 the stumblings of it in wintry ways1 the enchanted smiles of its spring-time1 and all the history of its fond heart and guileless egoism4 #8,from the honest but fierce laugh of the coarse ,saxon1 ,william ,hogarth1 to the delicious smile of ,kate ,greenaway1 there has past a century and a half4 ,is it the same people which applauds to-day the sweet genius and tender malices of the one1 and which applauded the bitter genius and slaughterous satire of the other8 ,after all1 that is possible--the hatred of vice is only another manifestation of the love of innocence4' 444 ,i have brought with me to-day in the first place some examples of her pencil sketches in primary design4444 ,you have here for consummate example1 a dance of fairies under a mushroom1 which she did under challenge to show me what fairies were like4 #8,they'll be very like children1' she said4 ,i answered that ,i didn't mind1 and should like to see them all the same2--so here they are1 with a dance1 also1 of two girlies1 outside of a mushroom2 and ,i don't know whether the elfins or girls are the fairyfootedest3 and one or two more subjects1 which you may find out2--but in all you will see that the line is ineffably tender and delicate1 and can't in the least be represented by the lines of a woodcut4#ag 444 ,so far of pure outline4 ,next1 for the enrichment of it by colour4 ,monsieur ,chesneau doubts if the charm of ,miss ,greenaway's work can be carried farther4 ,i answer1 with security1--yes1 very much farther1 and that in two directions3 first1 in her own method of design2 and secondly1 the manner of its representation in printing4 ,illustration3 ,,pencil ,,sketches4 ,in the possession of ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie1 ,f4,s4,a4 ,first1 her own design has been greatly restricted by being too ornamental1 or1 in our modern phrase1 decorative2--contracted into any corner of a ,christmas card1 or stretched like an elastic band round the edges of an almanac4 ,now her art is much too good to be used merely for illumination2 it is essentially and perfectly that of true colour-picture1 and that the most nave and delightful manner of picture1 because1 on the simplest terms1 it comes nearest reality4 ,no end of mischief has been done to modern art by the habit of running semi-pictorial illustration round the margins of ornamental volumes1 and ,miss ,greenaway has been wasting her strength too sorrowfully in making the edges of her little birthday-books1 and the like1 glitter with unregarded gold1 whereas her power should be concentrated in the direct illustration of connected story1 and her pictures should be made complete on the page1 and far more realistic than decorative4 ,there is no charm so enduring as that of the real representation of any given scene2 her present designs are like living flowers flattened to go into an herbarium1 and sometimes too pretty to be believed4 ,we must ask her for more descriptive reality1 for more convincing simplicity1 and we must get her to organise a school of colourists by hand1 who can absolutely facsimile her own first drawing4 ,this is the second matter on which ,i have to insist4 ,i bring with me to-day twelve of her original drawings1 and have mounted beside them1 good impressions of the published prints4 ,i may heartily congratulate both the publishers and possessors of the book on the excellence of these2 yet if you examine them closely1 you will find that the colour blocks of the print sometimes slip a little aside1 so as to lose the precision of the drawing in important places2 and in many other respects better can be done1 in at least a certain number of chosen copies4 ,i must not1 however1 detain you to-day by entering into particulars in this matter4 ,i am content to ask your sympathy in the endeavour1 if ,i can prevail on the artist to undertake it4 ,only in respect to this and every other question of method in engraving1 observe further that all the drawings ,i bring you to-day agree in one thing1--minuteness and delicacy of touch carried to its utmost limit1 visible in its perfectness to the eyes of youth1 but neither executed with a magnifying glass nor1 except to aged eyes1 needing one4 ,even ,i1 at sixty-four1 can see the essential qualities of the work without spectacles2 though only the youngest of my friends here can see1 for example1 ,kate's fairy dance1 perfectly1 but they can with their own bright eyes4 ,the year #ahgh1 which gave ,under the ,window to the world1 also produced ,topo3 ,a ,tale about ,english ,children in ,italy1 written by ,miss ,gertrude ,blood1 afterwards ,lady ,colin ,campbell1 who adopted for the occasion the pen-name of #8,g4 ,e4 ,brunefille1' #8with #dd pen-and-ink ,illustrations by ,kate ,greenaway4' ,it was published by ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward ,co4 ,for the sake of the collector1 it may be said that the first issue was printed on thick and a subsequent issue on thin paper4 ,the design in black and gold on the green cloth cover was also from a drawing by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,the full-page frontispiece is printed in green and gold2 the rest of the illustrations are wood-engravings incorporated in the text4 ,of these the little girl on p4 #ag1 the singing boy and smallest singing girl on p4 #bd1 the little boy in his night-shirt on p4 #ca1 and the choir boys on p4 #de are admirable1 notwithstanding the poor printing4 ,apart from these1 the illustrations are of no great account4 ,indeed1 some of the figures are very indifferent1 more particularly the middle of the three children on p4 #eb1 which not only is very poor in the legs and feet 7a constant difficulty with ,kate through life71 but is curiously faulty in its relation to the leading figure4 ,concerning the book ,lady ,colin ,campbell has supplied the following information3-- ,the child's book1 ,topo3 or ,summer ,life in ,italy1 which she illustrated1 ,i wrote when ,i was only fifteen1 so of course there was no need for her to write to a child-author4 ,the chief point of interest is not only the beauty of the drawings1 but also that it was the first book she had ever illustrated4#ah--;before that she had only done calendars and ,christmas cards1 etc41 for ,marcus ,ward ,co4 ,marcus ,ward ,co4 agreed to pay me #e1 for the book1 and they were so pleased with it that they sent me #aj1 which ,i should think was the only case on record of a publisher doubling the price in an author's favour without being asked4 ,for the illustrations1 ,mr4 ,william ,marcus ,ward tells us1 ,kate ,greenaway made innumerable sketches--was indeed tireless in her determination to do the best for her text4 ,these preliminary designs were thrown off with amazing rapidity1 #8almost as quickly as they could be talked about4' ,those rejected she would ruthlessly tear up or beg him to do so4 ,for the donkey she made at least a dozen drawings1 but with no success1 and finally had to submit to the mortification of the animal being drawn by some one else4 ,this year ,kate was represented at the ,academy by her #8,little ,girl with ,doll1' while two of her pictures at the ,dudley ,gallery sold for fifteen guineas and fifteen pounds respectively1 her gross takings from this source being nearly fifty pounds4 ,now1 too1 began her connection with the ,scribners1 for whom she worked for several years4 ,from this time forward her accounts1 to those who enjoy figures1 make very cheerful reading4 ,in #ahgh she earned nearly #eej1 in #ahgi over #hjj1 in #ahhj rather more1 and in #ahha over #aejj1 the enormous rise being due to the accumulating royalties on the books engraved and printed by ,mr4 ,evans and published by ,george ,routledge ,sons4 ,illustration3 ,,skit ,,in ,,the ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,manner ,,by ,,randolph ,,caldecott4 ,at this time ,randolph ,caldecott1 born in the same year as ,kate ,greenaway1 was at once her rival in the affections of the young people of the #8seventies and #8eighties1 her competitor on the publishers' prospectuses1 and her admiring friend and helpful comrade4 ,a story is told of him that one morning1 staying with her in the same country-house 7probably that of ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson71 he came down declaring that he had lost all power of working in his own style and everything came out ,kate ,greenaways4 ,he then produced a telling little skit on her manner which so delighted ,kate ,greenaway that she preserved it till her dying day4 ,,randolph ,,caldecott ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway #df1 ,,great ,,russell ,,street1 ,,bloomsbury1 ,september #cj1 #ahgh4 ,dear ,miss ,greenaway--,the two children of whom ,i spoke were recommended to me by a ,mr4 ,robertson of #f1 ,britten ,street1 ,chelsea1 himself a model4 ,he seemed to say that he had the power of causing the children to sit4 ,one is a #8,saxon boy' of six years old--called ,a4 ,frost2 the other is a #8vivacious girl of an auburn colour' entitled ,minnie ,frost4 ,i do not know anything of ,mr4 ,robertson either as a professional model or as a private gentleman4 ,he has called on me twice for a few minutes at each time4 ,the brown ink of which ,i discoursed will not1 when thickly used with a pen1 keep itself entirely together under the overwhelming influence of a brush with water-colour4 ,i have found this out to-day4 ,but the liquid ,indian ink used for lines will stand any number of damp assaults4 ,this ,i know from much experience4--,believe me1 yours very truly1 ,r4 ,,caldecott4 ,p4,s4--,i hope the above information may be of use to you4--,r4 ,c4 ,on the death of ,caldecott1 ,miss ,greenaway wrote as follows to ,mrs4 ,severn3-- #ej1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead1 ,n4,w41 #agth ,feb4 #ahhf4 ,dearest ,joanie-- 444 ,isn't it sad about ,mr4 ,caldecott8 ,the last ,i heard he was so much better--and now--dead4 ,it looks quite horrid to see the black-bordered card with his books in the shop windows--it feels horrid to want to sell his books somehow1 just yet4 ,i'm very sorry4444--,good-bye1 with dearest love1 ,,katie4 ,the good understanding between the two artists was probably known outside their own circle1 and strange deductions were occasionally drawn4 ,one day a gentleman said mysteriously to ,mr4 ,rider1 the head of the firm who built ,miss ,greenaway's house at ,frognal3 #8,you know1 ,i suppose1 who ,kate ,greenaway really is8' #8,perfectly1' said ,mr4 ,rider4 #8,she's not ,kate ,greenaway at all1' said his informant1 confidentially1 #8she's ,mrs4 ,randolph ,caldecott4 ,i chance to know that she married ,randolph ,caldecott'2 and ,mr4 ,rider utterly failed to establish the truth in the mind of his visitor1 for it was a belief held by not a few4 ,on the other hand1 with ,mr4 ,walter ,crane--with whose name her own was so often linked in the public mind1 as well as in publishers' announcements--,kate ,greenaway had but the slightest acquaintance1 though for his work she entertained unbounded admiration4 ,mr4 ,crane informs us3 ,i only met her on one occasion1 and that was at a play given in ,argyll ,street1 wherein ,tennyson's second son1 ,lionel ,tennyson1 appeared1 and in which the ,lockers were interested4 ,my impressions of ,kate ,greenaway were of a very quiet and unobtrusive personality1 probably quietly observant1 self-contained1 reserved1 with a certain shrewdness4 ,she was small and plainly dressed4 ,in those days it was usual to bracket ,kate ,greenaway1 ,randolph ,caldecott1 and myself together as special children's-book providers1 ignoring very great differences of style and aims 7ignoring1 too1 the fact that ,i began my series of picture-books more than ten years before either ,caldecott or ,miss ,greenaway were known to the public74 ,both those artists1 however1 were1 ,i fancy1 much more commercially successful than ,i was1 as1 when ,i began1 children's-book designs were very poorly paid4 ,i was glad to be of some service to ,caldecott when he started his series through ,messrs4 ,routledge in #ahgh4 ,my ,baby's ,opera was published in #ahgg by the same house1 and proved so successful that the publishers wanted me to follow it up immediately with another4 ,being engaged in other work1 ,i did not see my way to this2 but the publishers were equal to the emergency1 for ,i was rather startled about ,christmas to see ,kate ,greenaway's first book1 ,under the ,window1 announced by them as #8companion volume' to ,the ,baby's ,opera4 ,to this ,i naturally objected as misleading1 and the advertisement was withdrawn4 ,the grace and charm of her children and young girls were quickly recognised1 and her treatment of quaint early nineteenth-century costume1 prim gardens1 and the child-like spirit of her designs in an old-world atmosphere1 though touched with conscious modern #8stheticism1' captivated the public in a remarkable way4 ,may ,i confess that 7for me at least7 ,i think she overdid the big bonnet rather1 and at one time her little people were almost lost in their clothes8 ,however1 one saw this in the actual life of the day4 ,i remember ,miss ,greenaway used to exhibit drawings at the old ,dudley ,gallery general exhibition1 but her larger1 more elaborated studies were not so happy as her book designs in simple outline tastefully tinted4 ,mr4 ,walter ,crane speaks here of their difference of aims4 ,those who recall the public discussion between ,mr4 ,crane and ,professor ,ruskin on the subject of children's books will remember that what the former had greatly in mind was a special appeal to the eyes and artistic taste of the little ones3 his purpose was in a measure educative4 ,kate ,greenaway1 on the other hand1 sought for nothing but their unthinking delight2 and whether her aim was higher or lower than that of her fellow-artist1 there was no doubt of the esteem and affection in which she was now held by all little people as well as by their elders4 ,illustration3 ,book-plate designed for ,godfrey ,locker-,lampson4 ,,chapter ,,vi #ahgi-ahhj ,,christmas ,,cards ,,and ,,books--,h4 ,,stacy ,,marks1 ,r4,a41 ,,john ,,ruskin1 ,,and ,,frederick ,,locker-,,lampson ,the year #ahdf--the birth-year of both ,kate ,greenaway and ,randolph ,caldecott--marked also the genesis of the ,christmas card4 ,what was in the first instance a pretty thought and dainty whim1 by its twenty-fifth year had become a craze1 and has now1 another quarter of a century later1 fallen into a tenacious and somewhat erratic dotage4 ,the first example of which there is any trace was a private card designed by ,j4 ,c4 ,horsley1 ,r4,a41 for ,sir ,henry ,cole1 of the ,south ,kensington ,museum1 and it proved to be the forerunner of at least two hundred thousand others that were placed upon the market before #ahid in ,england alone4 ,for five-and-twenty years the designing of them was practically confined to the journeyman artist1 who rang the changes on the ,christmas ,plum-pudding1 the ,holly and ,mistletoe1 and on occasional religious reference1 with little originality and less art4 ,later on all that was changed4 ,about #ahgh certain manufacturers1 printers1 and publishers recognised the possibilities which lay in an improved type of production1 with the result that in #ahhb so great was the boom that #8one firm alone paid in a single year no less a sum than seven thousand pounds for original drawings' for these cards4#ai ,thereupon arose the ,christmas card collector1 who vaunted his possessions even as the stamp collector or book-plate collector of to-day takes pride in his4 ,one of the most ardent is credited with the ownership of #gjj volumes1 weighing together between six and seven tons and containing #afc1jjj varieties6 ,the decade #ahgh to #ahhh was his happy hunting-time1 for it was then that not only were book-illustrators of the highest repute induced to follow an employment which up to that time had been looked upon as merely perfunctory1 but established artists1 ,royal ,academicians and others who were popularly supposed to work only for ,art's sake and not at all for that of ,commerce1 vied with one another for the rewards which waited upon artistic success in the new field4 ,kate ,greenaway had begun the designing of ,christmas cards anonymously in the pre-collector days1 and her earliest productions1 which were no doubt an advance upon most of those which preceded them1 are nevertheless interesting rather as curiosities than as works of art4 ,in her valentines she had adopted the slashed doublet and buskin convention2 but the ,christmas card was to prove her triumph4 ,not that she shook herself free from her trammels all at once2 but signs of grace quickly appeared1 and the year #ahgh found her working on original lines in the front rank of the artists who were taking advantage of the new departure4 ,before this date her cards seem never to have been signed1 and are not easy to identify1 as they lack the distinctive characteristics of her later work4 ,as time goes on they bear1 if not the initials #8,k4 ,g41' at any rate the unquestionable evidence of her style4 ,doubtless the difficulty of identifying her early work is due chiefly to the fact that the designs1 mainly flower pieces1 were only sketched out by her and were given into the hands of more experienced draughtsmen to be finished4 ,what was most noticeable in her work at this period was the remarkable ease with which she adapted her designs to the spaces they were to occupy1 whether oblongs1 uprights1 circles1 or ovals4 ,illustration3 ,,christmas ,,cards4 ,from water-colour drawings in the possession of ,w4 ,marcus ,ward1 ,esq4 ,by this year she was1 as ,under the ,window proves1 in her own way #8drawing her inspiration from classic forms unfettered by classic conventions1' and her very original designs1 coming at a time when the vogue was at its height1 went no little way towards increasing her popularity4 ,from this time many of her ,christmas cards are well worthy the notice of the collector of beautiful things2 and the fact that her work1 done with a single eye to this mode of publication1 grew rarer and rarer as time went on gives them the adventitious value of scarcity which sharpens the appetite for acquisition4 ,it is true that ,christmas cards bearing her signature continued to appear until late into the #8nineties1 but these were usually designs made for her books and afterwards appropriated to other uses4 ,those of her best period are fully entitled to rank amongst the ,art products of the time4 ,these were years when ,christmas cards were ,christmas cards1 designed by ,mr4 ,marcus ,stone1 ,r4,a41 ,mr4 ,g4 ,d4 ,leslie1 ,r4,a41 ,mr4 ,j4 ,sant1 ,r4,a41 ,mr4 ,w4 ,f4 ,yeames1 ,r4,a41 ,h4 ,stacy ,marks1 ,r4,a41 ,j4 ,c4 ,herbert1 ,r4,a41 and ,sir ,edward ,poynter1 the present ,president of the ,royal ,academy4 ,they had not yet developed1 as now1 into anything from the counterfeit presentment of an old boot1 or a cigar-end1 to the ,encyclopdia ,britannica4 ,as ,gleeson ,white wrote1 with genuine indignation1 in #ahid-- ,the mass of recent cards1 with few notable exceptions1 are merely bric--brac1 and of no more intrinsic merit as to design or colour than half the superfluous trifles of the #8fancy emporium1' the articles de ,paris in oxidised metal1 rococo1 gilt plush1 and ormolu1 which fill the windows of our best and worst shopping streets1 and in debased imitations overflow the baskets on the pavements outside cheap drapery stores4 ,illustration3 ,early ,sketch for ,christmas ,card4 ,wherefore1 to turn back from these to the work of ,kate ,greenaway at the end of the #8seventies and beginning of the #8eighties is to recognise something of a revelation4 ,the little drawings of sprites1 gnomes1 and fairies which1 as has been related1 attracted the attention of the ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie and of ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward1 in ,miss ,greenaway's first black-and-white exhibition at the ,dudley ,gallery1 and found their way into the ,people's ,magazine1 were indirectly responsible for at least a hundred separate designs from her brush1 all of them reflecting equal credit on the artist and the firm which reproduced them4 ,some idea of the importance of the output of this house may be gathered from the fact that in #ahhd a collection of drawings1 done in the main for their ,christmas cards1 was sold by auction at ,messrs4 ,fosters' ,rooms for #a1gbh3 #abs4#bj ,in this as in every other field of her work she received the sincerest but to her the most annoying kind of flattery4 ,for example1 in #ahhj an important house offered #ejj in prizes for ,christmas card designs1 with ,sir ,coutts ,lindsay1 ,stacy ,marks1 ,r4,a41 and ,g4 ,h4 ,boughton1 ,r4,a41 as judges2 and one of the prizes fell to #8,k4 ,terrell1 for designs after the style of ,kate ,greenaway4' ,the sale of these ,christmas cards ran literally into millions2 and when it is remembered that probably not more than three were designed then for three thousand pictorial postcards put forth to-day1 the prodigious popular success of them can easily be realised4 ,these cards1 it should be added1 were all produced by chromolithography1 each one needing1 on the average1 twelve stones4 ,in dealing with the iconographies of #8the work of certain artists of importance1' who were represented in the great decade of ,christmas card production by more than a single set of cards1 ,gleeson ,white rightly accorded to ,kate ,greenaway the premier place1 and wrote3 ,miss ,kate ,greenaway has preserved no complete set of her own designs--nor have her publishers3 hence collectors must needs exercise their ingenuity to discover which of the many unsigned cards that appear to be hers are genuine and which are imitations4 ,after the success of her first popular series 7issued1 as were the majority1 by ,marcus ,ward71 it is easy enough to discard the too faithful disciples who never once caught her peculiar charm4 ,but in the earlier of hers1 when her manner was less pronounced1 even the publishers are not always absolutely certain regarding the authorship of several designs4#ba ,but this section of her work1 important though it was in the early development of the ,kate ,greenaway we know1 and interesting though it is to the collector of her work1 was merely a by-path in the direction she was travelling4 ,she was now1 in truth1 on the high-road to fame and success4 ,the next year 7#ahgi7 she was hard at work on her ,birthday ,book1 a duodecimo volume with verses by ,mrs4 ,sale ,barker4 ,it was published in #ahhj1 and #abh1jjj ,english1 #ac1ejj ,french1 and #h1ejj ,german copies were placed on the market4 ,for the #chb tiny drawings1 #cgj of which were minute uncoloured figures1 she received #aea3 #ajs41 whilst the royalties 7not1 of course1 received all at once7 exceeded #a1ajj4bb ,every day had its own delightful little pictorial conceit1 and each month had a full page in colour in her happiest manner4 #8,good ,evans6' exclaimed a perfectly respectable newspaper at the sight of them4 ,later on1 at ,mr4 ,evans's suggestion1 ,kate ,greenaway coloured a certain number of the little wood-engravings1 with the idea of publishing them in a separate volume4 ,from these ,mr4 ,evans engraved the colour blocks and bound up a few copies1 but no title was decided upon1 and the book was never even offered to the publishers4 ,should one of these little proof copies ever come into the sale-room1 some lively bidding may be looked for4 ,but perhaps the most interesting thing connected with the ,birthday ,book is the fact1 which we learn from ,mr4 ,graham ,balfour1 that ,robert ,louis ,stevenson was first prompted by it to try his hand at those charming verses for children which were afterwards published in the ,child's ,garden of ,verse4 #8,louis took the ,birthday ,book up one day1' says ,mr4 ,balfour1 #8and saying1 8,these are rather nice rhymes1 and ,i don't think they would be very difficult to do10 proceeded to try his hand4' ,in this year also ,miss ,greenaway was commissioned by ,messrs4 ,macmillan ,co4 to illustrate a new edition of ,miss ,yonge's novels4 ,but after finishing four drawings for the ,heir of ,redclyffe and three for ,heartsease1 she threw up the task4 ,she recognised at the end that she was not entirely competent to carry out such work1 as she had declared from the beginning her extreme indisposition to enter upon it4 ,the drawings are capital1 but hardly appropriate1 and excellently as they were cut on wood by ,swain1 they failed of their effect4 ,for the young man in these drawings ,kate impressed her brother ,john as model2 and her father is to be recognised in the frontispiece1 in the figure of ,percy holding his cherished umbrella over the person of ,theodora4 ,for the same firm ,kate also drew1 as has been said1 a delightful frontispiece for ,amateur ,theatricals1 by ,mr4 ,walter ,herries ,pollock and ,lady ,pollock in the #8,art at ,home ,series1' edited by the ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie4 ,other drawings appeared in ,st4 ,nicholas1 among which should be mentioned illustrations to ,tom ,hughes' #8,beating the ,bounds1' #8,children's ,day in ,st4 ,paul's1' and ,mrs4 ,dodge's #8,calling the ,flowers1' #8,the ,little ,big ,woman and the ,big ,little ,girl1' and #8,seeing is ,believing4' ,the drawing called #8,misses1' which ,kate sent this year to the ,royal ,academy1 was less attractive to some than its foregoers4 ,fun fixed upon its title in a critical couplet in the course of a very cutting rhyming review of the exhibition entitled #8,the ,budget at ,burlington ,house1' and proceeded3 ,a picture by ,miss ,greenaway 7we scarcely like a bit of it7 ,is rightly titled #8,misses1' for she hasn't made a hit of it4 ,the popular interest in ,miss ,greenaway then and thenceforward may be partly gauged by the great sheaf of applications for biographical information addressed to her by the editors of various magazines1 found among her papers4 ,but she hated publicity at all times4 ,especially did she fear and detest the attentions of interviewers1 and she did her best to escape them4 ,in a letter of a later date to ,miss ,lily ,evans she says3 ,my mind is dull to-night4 ,i feel like what ,i was described in one of the notices of the ,p4,v4 ,private ,view1 as a gentle1 bespectacled1 middle-aged lady garbed in black4 ,somehow it sounds as if ,i was like a little mouse4 ,i don't feel gentle at all4 ,see what it is to grow old6 ,i have passed a time avoiding interviewers--no wonder they take revenge6 ,and when ,herr ,emil ,hannover sought to write a critical and personal study on the artist1 he received1 as he records1 a note from her in which she writes with characteristic reserve and dignity3 ,you must wait till ,i am dead2 till then ,i wish to live my life privately--like an ,english gentlewoman4 ,publishers1 too1 vied with one another in seeking her services1 and a bare list of commissions offered but not taken in the years immediately succeeding would fill pages of this book4 ,indeed1 if we may judge from her correspondence1 every amateur who wrote a fairy story or a child's book or a book of verses1 and wished to float it on the sea of her popularity1 applied to her to illustrate it4 ,one of them thinks that the #8kind praise received from various editors' should be sufficient recommendation4 ,another flourishes #8seven small children4' ,another appeal to her charity and generosity is from a clergyman's wife2 she is in very delicate health1 her income does not permit of her doing the things which her medical man tells her would greatly benefit her1 and so on1 and she would be so much obliged if ,miss ,greenaway would make her verses saleable by illustrating them4 ,pathetic requests of this sort must have affected her tender heart as deeply as ,thackeray's #8,thorns in the ,cushion' touched his4 ,another1 a ,german composer1 puts her verses to music1 and with a sense of morality about on a par with his ,english writes1 in the strain well known to successful ,british authors3 #8,in ,germany every composer has a right over publishing each song by composition without paying any honorary to the poet1 therefor the editor would not be obliged to hesitate in publishing your songs in the ,german translation with melodies4 ,but since it is of importance for me that my composition also find a spreading in ,england1' etc4 etc41 he offers #8one hundred mark #e for twelve of your poems4' ,it need hardly be said that to this half-threat1 half-insult ,kate made no response4 ,further evidence of ,miss ,greenaway's vogue at this time may be gathered from information which ,mr4 ,j4 ,russell ,endean has been good enough to provide4 ,he says that shortly after the issue of ,under the ,window1 ,herr ,fischer1 of the ,royal and ,imperial ,porcelain ,majolica ,manufactory1 ,buda ,pesth1 showed him half-a-dozen employs1 with a copy of the book lying before each of them1 at work in the artist's atelier1 copying the illustrations upon china plates which had been twice fired1 line for line1 size for size1 and group for group4 ,to this ,herr ,fischer himself adds3 #8,it is a fact that ,kate ,greenaway was copied in my factory1 and ,i can certainly further affirm that all the books which appeared in the #8eighties were used1 and large business was done with the pictures4' ,this annexation of copyright ,british designs by ,german china manufacturers1 however1 is in no way unusual4 ,as we write these lines there is brought before us an excellent but wholly unauthorised reproduction upon a porcelain vase decorated with one of ,mr4 ,c4 ,wilhelm's beautiful drawings of dainty animated flowers1 a design in which ,kate ,greenaway would assuredly have rejoiced4 ,h4 ,stacy ,marks1 ,r4,a41 it has been said1 was one of ,miss ,greenaway's most valued and helpful friends4 ,the letters of this year that follow show how sincere and kind he was1 and how candid a critic4 ,a constant visitor and adviser1 and an ardent admirer of her work from early years1 he did more than any one to encourage her1 to foster her genius1 and to bring her into notice4 ,always seeking eagerly for her criticism of his own work1 he was not sparing in his kindly comments on hers4 ,this he held to be not only a duty but1 in a sense1 a necessity1 for he felt that she must justify the advice he had given her to proceed along the path she had discovered for herself1 when others1 declaring she was blundering into failure1 were loudly conjuring her to be more conventional1 and to suppress her charming individuality4 ,h4 ,,stacy ,,marks1 ,r4,a41 ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,october #bb1 #ahgi4 ,dear ,miss ,greenaway--,very many thanks for your very pretty and charming book1#bc which has afforded me and my household much pleasure4 ,where so many designs are delightful1 it seems hard to select any special one1 but ,i think1 as a happy method of filling up a page1 the girls with the shuttlecocks bears the palm2 and how useful is the verse between6 p4 #cc4 ,i like page #da for its nave defiance of all rules of composition1 and pages #bc and #dg are very sweet4 ,i am not going to be #8severe1' but ,i must ask you not to repeat those funny little black shadows under the feet of your figures--looking in some places like spurs1 in others like tadpoles1 in others like short stilts4 ,vide cat and children on page #ec for the last1 page #ci for the tadpoles1 and pages #aj and #cj for spurs4 ,why you have done this 7much to the detriment of the drawings7 in special instances and not in others ,i can't see4 ,i will only find another fault--the drawing of the feet on page #ca--the tallest girl's are very funny1 but all are queer4 ,a cast of any foot placed a little below the level of the eye would teach you how to foreshorten feet better4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,little ,,go-,,cart4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 ,there1 ,i have done6 ,but ,i know you well enough to feel assured that you would not be content with unqualified praise1 and that you are grateful for a little honest criticism4 ,don't bother about painting too much4 ,you have a lay of your own1 and do your best to cultivate it4 ,think of the large number of people you charm and delight by these designs compared with those who can afford to buy paintings4 ,you have a special gift and it is your duty in every sense to make the most of it4 ,by the way1 did you write the verses also8 ,if so1 there is another feather for your cap1 for ,i know how difficult it is to write verses for children4 ,i hope ,i have not sermonised too much1 and thanking you once more for your pleasant1 happy book1 to which ,i shall turn again and again1 ,i am1 faithfully yours1 ,h4 ,s4 ,,marks4 ,h4 ,,stacy ,,marks ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,november #c1 #ahgi4 444 ,mr4 ,ruskin dined here on ,thursday last1 and spoke in high terms of your feeling for children1 etc4 ,i think it not unlikely that you may have a letter from him soon4 ,one more word of advice--although ,i almost believe you have too much common-sense to need it--don't let any success or praise make you puffed up or conceited1 but keep humble and try to perfect yourself more in your art each day--and never sell your independence by hasty or badly considered work4 ,i have seen so many spoiled by success that ,i raise my warning voice to you4 ,and sure enough before three months were out ,mr4 ,ruskin did make it his business to write and give her shrewd and humorous advice4 ,the first letter is dated #ahgi1 but that which follows it shows that this is a mistake3 like a great many other people1 he found it hard to adopt a new date at the beginning of a new year4 ,ruskin and ,kate ,greenaway1 whose friendship was soon to ripen into a happy intimacy1 shared by his household1 did not meet face to face until #ahhb4 ,he writes in his more fantastic and playful vein4 ,,john ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 ,,coniston1 ,jan4 #fth1 #ahgi a mistake for #ahhj4 ,my dear ,miss ,greenaway--,i lay awake half 7no a quarter7 of last night thinking of the hundred things ,i want to say to you--and never shall get said6--and ,i'm giddy and weary--and now can't say even half or a quarter of one out of the hundred4 ,they're about you--and your gifts--and your graces--and your fancies--and your--yes--perhaps one or two little tiny faults3--and about other people--children1 and grey-haired1 and what you could do for them--if you once made up your mind for whom you would do it4 ,for children only for instance8--or for old people1 me for instance--and of children and old people--whether for those of #ahhj--only--or of #ah--h--i--aj--aa--ab--bj--j--j--j--j1 etc4 etc4 etc4 ,or more simply annual or perennial4 ,well1 of the thousand things--it was nearer a thousand than a hundred--this is anyhow the first4 ,will you please tell me whether you can only draw these things out of your head--or could1 if you chose1 draw them with the necessary modifications from nature8 ,for instance--,down in ,kent the other day ,i saw many more lovely farm-houses--many more pretty landscapes--than any in your book4 ,but the farms had1 perhaps1 a steam-engine in the yard--the landscapes a railroad in the valley4 ,now1 do you never want to draw such houses and places1 as they used to be1 and might be8 ,that's ,no4 #a4 ,no4 #b of the thousand4 ,do you only draw pretty children out of your head8 ,in my parish school there are at least twenty prettier than any in your book--but they are in costumes neither graceful nor comic--they are not like blue china--they are not like mushrooms--they are like--very ill-dressed ,angels4 ,could you draw groups of these as they are8 ,no4 #c of the thousand4 ,did you ever see a book called ,flitters1 ,tatters1 and the ,councillor8#bd ,no4 #d of the thousand4 ,do you ever see the blue sky8 and when you do1 do you like it8 ,no4 #e4 ,is a witch's ride on a broomstick#be the only chivalry you think it desirable to remind the glorious ,nineteenth ,century of8 ,no4 #f4--;,do you believe in ,fairies8 ,no4 #g4--;,in ghosts8 ,no4 #h4--;,in ,principalities or ,powers8 ,no4 #i4--;,in ,heaven8 ,no4 #aj4--;,in-,any where else8 ,no4 #aa4--;,did you ever see ,chartres ,cathedral8 ,no4 #ab4--;,did you ever study1 there or elsewhere1 thirteenth century glass8 ,no4 #ac4--;,do you ever go to the ,,ms4 room of the ,british ,museum8 ,no4 #ad4--;,heavy outline will not go with strong colour--but if so1 do you never intend to draw with delicate outline8 ,no4 #ae4--,will you please forgive me--and tell me--some of those things ,i've asked8--,ever gratefully yours1 ,j4 ,,ruskin4 ,to this letter ,miss ,greenaway responded at once1 and he writes again3-- ,,john ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 ,,coniston1 ,jan4 #aeth4 #ahhj4 ,dear ,miss ,greenaway--,how delightful of you to answer all my questions6--and to read ,fors6 ,i never dreamed you were one of my readers--and ,i had rather you read that than anything else of mine1 and rather you read it than anybody else4 ,i am so delighted also with your really liking blue sky--and those actual cottages1 and that you've never been abroad4 ,and that's all ,i can say to-day1 but only this1 that ,i think from what you tell me1 you will feel with me1 in my wanting you to try the experiment of representing any actual piece of nature 7however little7 as it really is1 yet in the modified harmony of colour necessary for printing--making a simple study first as an ordinary water-colour sketch1 and then translating it into outline and the few advisable tints1 so as to be able to say--,the sun was in or out1--it was here1 or there1 and the gown1 or the paling1 was of this colour on one side1 and of that on the other4 ,i believe your lovely design and grouping will come out all the brighter and richer for such exercise4 ,and then--when the question of absolute translation is once answered1 that of conventional change may be met on its separate terms1 securely4--,ever gratefully yours1 ,j4 ,,ruskin4 ,,john ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 ,,coniston1 ,dec4 #gth4 _/#hj4 ,dear ,miss ,greenaway--,i have just got home and find the lovely little book and the drawing6 ,i had carried your letter in the safest recess of my desk through all the cathedral towns in ,picardy1--thinking every day to get away for home 7,now is there any little misery of life worse than a hair in one's best pen871 and to see my treasure1 and ,i never got away6 and now what an ungrateful wretch you must think me6 ,but--alas--do you know you have done me more grief than good for the moment8 ,the drawing is so boundlessly more beautiful than the woodcut that ,i shall have no peace of mind till ,i've come to see you and seen some more drawings1 and told you--face to face--what a great and blessed gift you have--too great1 in the ease of it1 for you to feel yourself4 ,these books are lovely things but1 as far as ,i can guess1 from looking at this drawing1 your proper work would be in glass painting--where your own touch1 your own colour1 would be safe for ever1--seen1 in sacred places1 by multitudes--copied1 by others1 for story books--but your whole strength put in pure first perfectness on the enduring material4 ,have you ever thought of this8 ,please tell me if you get this note4 ,i am so ashamed of not writing before4--,ever your grateful and devoted ,j4 ,,ruskin4 ,,john ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 ,,coniston1 ,,lancashire1 ,day after ,xmas1 #ahhj4 ,dear ,miss ,greenaway--,i have not been able to write because ,i want to write so much--both of thanks and petition1 since your last letter4 ,petition--not about the promised drawing3 though it will be beyond telling precious to me2 ,i don't want you to work1 even for a moment1 for me--but ,i do want you never to work a moment but in permanent material and for--#8all people1 who on earth do dwell4' ,i have lying on the table as ,i write1 your little ,christmas card1 #8,luck go with you1 pretty lass4' ,to my mind it is a greater thing than ,raphael's ,st4 ,cecilia4 ,but you must paint it--paint all things--well1 and for ever4 ,holbein left his bitter legacy to the ,eternities--,the ,dance of ,death4 ,leave you yours--,the ,dance of ,life4--,ever your grateful and glad ,,john ,,ruskin4 ,towards the end of this year ,stacy ,marks again wrote3 444 ,i will say no more now than to congratulate you on your success1 in which ,i heartily rejoice--the more so as it does not destroy the simplicity of your nature1 or make you relax in your efforts after excellence4 ,you have found a path for yourself1 and though you kindly think ,i have helped to remove some of the obstacles that beset that path1 ,i can claim no credit myself for having done so4 ,illustration3 ,,kate ,,greenaway1 #ahhj4 ,from a photograph by ,elliott ,fry4 ,the year #ahhj found her still working on the ,illustrated ,london ,news1 and exhibiting and selling her pictures at the ,royal ,academy 7#8,little ,girl with ,fan'7 and the ,dudley ,gallery4 ,she also made a drawing1 beautifully cut by ,o4 ,lacour1 for ,the ,library 7,macmillan71 written by ,mr4 ,andrew ,lang and ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson1 to be published in #ahha4 ,concerning this ,mr4 ,dobson wrote3 ,how ,i envy you this captivating talent4 ,and how lucky the little people are to get such pictures6 ,i can't help thinking that ,i should have been a better man if ,i had had such pleasant play-books in my inartistic childhood4 ,you have a most definite and special walk1 and ,i hope you won't let any one persuade you out of it4 ,i have seen some imitations of you lately which convince me--if indeed ,i needed conviction--that you have little to fear from rivalry4 ,this year also was published a particularly charming frontispiece to the annual volume of ,little ,wide-,awake1 issued by ,messrs4 ,routledge4 ,other coloured frontispieces and title-pages well worthy of the collector's attention were done for several volumes of the same firm's ,every ,girl's ,annual1 and ,the ,girl's ,own ,paper4 ,but ,kate's output at this period was so great that it is impossible to do more than specify a few of her detached productions4 ,other events of this year were the translation of her verses in ,under the ,window into ,german by ,frau ,kthe ,freiligrath-,krker2 a request from ,john ,hullah1 whose acquaintance she had just made1 to set some of her #8admirable' verses to music for a new edition of his book on #8,time and ,tune'2 and an invitation to contribute to the ,grosvenor ,gallery ,exhibition4 ,the appearance of ,under the ,window 7,am ,fenster7 in ,germany was hailed with delight by the critics4 ,herr ,trojan1 writing in the ,national ,zeitung1 labelled it #8a small masterpiece of original stamp1 out-and-out ,english1 but acceptable to the inhabitants1 great and small1 of all other civilised nations4' ,the only objections to it in its new form were the rather too free treatment of the letterpress by the translator and the very unnecessary ,germanicising of the children's names4 ,in the same year ,miss ,greenaway began fully to realise the value of her drawings done for publication1 and henceforward made it an inflexible rule to retain the drawings themselves and sell only the use of them4 ,but by far the most important occurrence at this time was the beginning of her personal acquaintance with ,mr4 ,frederick ,locker1 better known to-day as ,frederick ,locker-,lampson4 ,he had1 as we know1 heard of her from ,mr4 ,evans two years earlier1 in connection with her verses for ,under the ,window4 ,now she was to become an intimate friend of the family and a constant visitor at ,rowfant and ,newhaven ,court4 ,of one of these visits she writes3 ,i've been living in very distinguished society4 ,they have a lovely house at ,cromer1 and it is a beautiful place--such a fine sea and such beautiful ponds and commons1 also lots of beautiful houses to be seen about4 ,i went to the most beautiful one ,i have ever seen--and such a garden1 a perfect wonder--such flowers1 it looked like ,june instead of ,september4 ,there were many flowers ,i had never seen before2 it was a beautiful place4 ,this year was also notable for what must have been a red-letter day in her life--a red-letter day1 it has often been said1 in the public life of anybody4 ,most people like the attention of polite press-notices1 but who is not a little bit the prouder when #8the little rascal of ,fleet ,street' first considers him worthy of his flattering notice8 ,now for the first time ,kate appeared in ,punch1 in an important drawing entitled #8,christmas is ,coming6' 7,dec4 #d1 vol4 lxxix4 p4 #bed71 made by the masterly pencil of ,mr4 ,linley ,sambourne4 ,miss ,greenaway heralded the event1 or at least the preparations for it1 in a letter to ,mr4 ,frederick ,locker4 ,illustration3 ,,frederick ,,locker-,,lampson4 ,from the ,water-,colour ,drawing by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,in the possession of ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,frederick ,,locker #bg ,nov4 #ahhj4 ,i heard again in a hurry from ,linley ,sambourne1 and had to rush off yesterday in a great hurry and get a photo taken2 ,i had to send him simply a negative4 ,so what ,i shall turn out like ,i dare not think1 even if he could use it at all4 ,i am curious to see what is going to be made of us all--if we are going to have large heads and little bodies1 or how we are going to be made funny4444 ,i really feel quite cross as ,i look at the shop windows and see the imitation books4 ,it feels so queer1 somehow1 to see your ideas taken by some one else and put forth as theirs4 ,i suppose next year they will be all little birthday books1 in shape and sort4 ,it is clear that ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson's assurances had not soothed or convinced her4 ,those little ,bewick drawings haunt me--they are so wonderfully different to most that are done4 ,it is a pity there is no way of reproducing such fine work4 ,in ,mr4 ,sambourne's drawing1 ,mr4 ,punch1 #8at home1' is invaded by a flight and crowd of artists1 writers1 and publishers of children's books--by ,kate ,greenaway1 ,caldecott1 ,stacy ,marks1 ,mr4 ,harrison ,weir1 ,mr4 ,crane1 and ,mrs4 ,sale ,barker1 by ,messrs4 ,macmillan1 ,william ,marcus ,ward1 ,bradbury1 ,edmund ,routledge1 ,de la ,rue1 ,hildesheimer1 ,duffield1 and ,walker1 all caterers for the little ones1 #8for all children1' says ,punch1 in the accompanying text1 #8are ,mr4 ,punch's pets4 ,let's see what you've got1' and forthwith he gives the place of honour to ,miss ,kate ,greenaway1 and warmly congratulates her on her ,birthday ,book for ,children1 #8a most dainty little work and a really happy thought for ,christmas4' ,and a mother and her children are shown listening behind the door to ,mr4 ,punch's declaration4 ,this was in itself a gratifying evidence of ,miss ,greenaway's popularity1 but that it did not give much satisfaction to her friends is demonstrated by a letter from ,miss ,anderson1 who wrote1 #8,thank you so much for sending me the ,punch4 ,i had the greatest difficulty in finding your portrait4 ,what a horror6 ,it is actionable really6' ,the fact is1 the photograph from which the sketch was made was unflattering in the extreme4 #8,k4 ,g4' was destined several times to engage ,punch's attention1 but it may safely be said that no press notice ever gave her greater pleasure than that which attended her first appearance in his pages4 ,illustration3 ,book-plate designed for ,frederick ,locker 7,f4 ,locker-,lampson7 by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,many of ,kate's happiest hours were spent in ,frederick ,locker's company4 ,one day they would go to the ,national ,gallery to gloat over some of their #8darling pictures1' another day to the ,british ,museum1 or ,noseda's in the ,strand to discuss prints1 or to ,harvey's1 the printseller1 in ,st4 ,james's ,street4 ,another day would find them at the ,flaxman ,gallery 7#8,what a ,flaxman gift you have1' he said one day71 or at the #8,arts and ,crafts ,exhibition1' at a private view of the ,grosvenor ,gallery1 or at ,colnaghi's to discuss the purchase of a mezzotint4 ,through him she seems to have become acquainted with ,browning and his sister in #ahhb1 and with the ,tennyson family1 with whom she became on intimate terms4 ,his letters to her1 which run into hundreds1 teem with advice1 encouragement1 and warning4 ,in one of them 7,nov4 #bh1 #ahhb7 he says3 ,it has occurred to me that you are about the only ,english artist who has ever been the fashion in ,france4 ,bonington and ,constable are appreciated1 but not more than appreciated4 ,i think anybody writing about you should notice this important fact4 ,illustration3 ,,pink ,,ribbons4 #8,girl with pink roses and pink ribbons4' ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,that same year she designed a book-plate for him4 ,this was1 it seems1 with slight alterations reproduced as frontispiece to the edition of his ,london ,lyrics published by ,scribner in ,america4 ,she also did book-plates for other members of the family4 ,discussing them in #ahib1 he writes3 ,there is a mystery about book-plates only known to certain initiated ones1 like ,lord de ,tabley4 ,they must not be pictorial and they must fulfil certain conditions4 ,now all that you have done for us1 and they are many1 fully satisfy my aspirations4 ,she also did two coloured portraits of him1 now in the possession of ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson4 ,in #ahhc she was amused to discover that her popularity was so great in ,germany that she was claimed there as a ,german4 ,even the ,german poet who was her father was named1 and--for ,germans are nothing if not circumstantial--it was said that he was obliged to leave ,germany in #ahdh and went to live in ,england1 where he was many years engaged in a house of business in the ,city1 and that in later years he had returned to ,germany4 ,they gave the name of the street 7,grne ,weg7 in ,dsseldorf where she lived1 and stated that on publishing her first book ,kate translated the name of the street into ,english and took it as her nom-de-plume6 ,thus is history sometimes made4 ,mr4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson was a great admirer of her art1 and when he heard that ,ruskin said in #ahhc that she should aim at something higher1 he laconically1 and wisely1 warned her to #8,beware4' ,in the same strain he had written to her the year before3 ,you must not be down-hearted about your art1 or feel depressed when you gaze at ,crane's productions4 ,each has his or her merit1 and there is room for all4 ,all ,i beg is1 that you will not rashly change your style4 ,vary it1 but do not change it4 ,this advice was called forth by the following letter3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,frederick ,,locker #bd ,may1 #ahhb4 ,i've been to call on the ,caldecotts to-day with ,mrs4 ,evans4 ,my brother showed me some of his 7,mr4 ,caldecott's7 new drawings yesterday at ,racquet ,court4 ,they are so uncommonly clever4 ,the ,dish running away with the ,spoon--you can't think how much he has made of it4 ,i wish ,i had such a mind4 ,i'm feeling very low about my own powers just now1 for ,i have been looking at the originals for the new ,crane book4 ,some of them are literally dreams of beauty4 ,i do wish you could see them4 ,there is one--a long low design of a ,harvest ,home4 ,i shall try1 ,i think1 to get it1 but so many are so lovely it is difficult to fix on the best4 ,i have just got a first proof of my little ,almanack 7be sure you don't mention anything about it to any one except ,mrs4 ,locker74 ,mr4 ,evans wants me to write a little verse to put on a blank page in it4 ,i shall get you to look at it when ,i have done it4 ,he inoculated her with his irrepressible love of collecting1 and when she came to have a house of her own1 acted as her adviser in beautifying it4 ,for example1 he wrote in #ahhb3 ,i saw a little ,bow figure 7china7 to-day at the shop to which this card is the address 7,fenton and ,sons1 ,holywell ,street71 a figure as tall as your dancing lady that ,i gave you4 ,she is in a green jacket4 ,look at it as you go to the ,national ,gallery on ,friday4 ,he asks #b3 #ajs4 for it and you might get it for #b4 ,it has been injured1 but ,i rather like it1 and ,i think it is genuine1 and probably ,bow or ,chelsea4 ,now mind you go and see it or ,i shall be cross4 ,it will only be five minutes out of your way4 ,you will see it in the window4 ,one day he would send her #8a little stool1 not a stool of ,repentance1 either to sit on or on which to put the books or papers you are reading'2 and another day1 #8a new edition of my ,lyra ,elegantiarum4 ,it is a hideous book and costs #as4 #f;d4' ,another day there arrived a flower-stand1 #8which comes from ,venice1 and ,i hope is decorative'2 on another the ,athenum 7,dec4 #ahhf71 which is #8full of your praises'2 and on yet another day1 a letter in which he says1 #8,i have told a man to send you two little ,stothards which may or may not be pretty1 but which are curious from their scarcity4 ,one is called 8,just ,breeched0 and the other 8,giving a ,bite40' ,in return1 she showered upon him and his family drawings and copies of her books1 in addition to the considerable number which he purchased4 ,indeed1 so generous was she in this respect that in #ahhc he wrote3 ,i was shocked to receive the drawing1 coming as it did after the beautiful drawing you gave ,mrs4 ,locker4 ,why should you waste your time on me8 ,it is heart-breaking to think of1 when your spare time is so valuable and you have so little of it4 ,you must send me no more4 ,i say it seriously4 ,no more4 ,i have plenty1 plenty to remember you by1 and when ,i am gone1 enough to show my children the kind feeling you had for me4 ,work away1 but for yourself--for your new house and for others more worthy4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,twins4 ,two pages from the little ,,ms4 volume1 measuring about #c #b inches1 entitled 8,babies and ,blossoms40 ,drawn by ,kate ,greenaway and written by ,frederick ,locker4 7,in the possession of ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson47 ,the ,twins ,yes1 there they lie1 so small1 so quaint1 ,two mouths1 two noses1 two chins2 ,what painter shall we get to paint ,and glorify the twins8 ,in tiny cloaks coral-bells1 ,and all those other pleasant spells ,of babyhood8 ,and not forget ,the silver mug for either pet1 ,no babe should be without it3 ,come1 ,fairy ,limner1 you can thrill ,our hearts with pink daffodil ,and white rosette dimpled frill2 ,come1 paint our little ,jack ,jill-- ,and don't be long about it6 ,illustration3 ,,little ,,dinky4 ,two pages from the little ,,ms4 volume1 measuring about #c #b inches1 entitled 8,babies and ,blossoms40 ,drawn by ,kate ,greenaway and written by ,frederick ,locker4 7,in the possession of ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson47 ,dorothy4 ,text of poem in right-side image3 ,little ,dinky4 ,the hair she means to have is gold1 ,her eyes are blue1 she's twelve weeks old4 ,plump are her fists pinky4 ,she flutter'd down in lucky hour ,from some blue deep in yon sky bower-- ,i call her little ,dinky4 ,a ,tiny now1 ere long she'll please ,to totter at my parent-knees1 ,and crow1 try to chatter2 ,and soon she'll take to fair white frocks ,and frisk about in shoes socks-- ,her totter changed to patter4 ,and soon she'll play1 ay1 soon enough1 ,at cowslip ball1 blindman's buff2 ,and some day1 we shall find her ,grow weary of her toys1 indeed ,she'll fling them all aside1 to heed ,a footstep close behind her4 ,,kg4 ,her gratitude for attentions paid or gifts presented was always deeply felt1 and prettily acknowledged and expressed4 ,thus3 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,frederick ,,locker #bg ,aug3 #ahhj4 444 ,the beautiful little red book6 ,i expect ,i was very horrid and did not thank you at all1 and you thought #8,she is very ungrateful2 she might have been a little pleased1 when ,i had taken that trouble to give her pleasure4' ,when people are very very kind--well--when they are very kind1 ,i think ,i am so glad ,i can't say anything to tell them so4 ,and so ,i send you now very many thanks for your kindness and the pleasure you gave me4 ,i think you will be pleased to know that the ,birthday ,book seems to be going to turn out a selling success--#e1jjj for ,america1 #c1jjj for ,germany1 and the rest going off so well that they are ordering paper for another edition4 ,this first edition is #ej1jjj--so ,i am looking forward with rejoicing to future pounds and pennies1 uncommonly nice possessions4 ,he was for ever begging her not to overwork herself1 fearing that her health and bread-winning powers might fail4 ,for example1 he wrote in #ahhb3 ,i hope when you get home you will get to work1 but take it quite easily 7say two or three hours a day71 and try to be beforehand with the publishers1 etc41 and not let anything interfere with or stop your daily moderate work4 ,sometimes he feigned jealousy of her devotion to ,mr4 ,ruskin and others4 ,in #ahhd3 #8,i daresay that ,ruskin is sunning his unworthy self in your smiles4 ,i hope he is impressed with his good fortune4' ,in #ahhe3 #8,you must let me be one of your first visitors to the new house at ,hampstead4 ,what will you call it8 ,the ,villa ,ruskin or ,dobson ,lodge1 or what8' ,he would get her to colour prints for him1 and would watch for commissions for her4 #8,i saw ,pears of ,pears' ,soap this morning1' he wrote in #ahhi2 #8such a good fellow4 ,will you do something for him8 ,i am quite serious4 ,i think you might do it without degrading your art4' ,they did not always agree in their opinions1 but he could make a pretty amende4 ,in #ahic he wrote3 ,i remember we disputed at ,cromer4 ,i was irritable and you were--irrational4 ,that is not the right word--but you enunciated opinions that ,i thought were not sound1 and ,i was stupid enough not to agree with you1 for1 as ,prior says1 you had the best of the argument1 for #8your eyes were always in the right4' ,time is too short for these arguments1 at least so ,i think1 so let us have no more4 ,occasionally they would discuss more serious topics1 and a letter would be drawn from ,kate with charming glimpses of self-revelation4 ,for example3 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,frederick ,,locker #g ,ap3 #ahha4 ,no1 ,i do not feel angry with the notice of ,carlyle--that1 ,i think1 expresses very much what ,i feel--but ,i do feel angry with the letter1 which seems to me commonplace in the extreme1 by a man of an utterly different mind4 ,i do like1 and ,i most sincerely hope that whilst ,i possess life ,i may venerate and admire with unstinted admiration1 this sort of noble and great men4 ,they seem to me to be so far above and beyond ordinary people1 so much worth trying to be a little like--and ,i feel they talk to such unhearing ears4 ,the fact is1 most people like to lead the lives that are enjoyment and pleasure to themselves2 and pleasing oneself does not make a noble life4 ,but ,i must tell you what ,i mean1 for ,i never can write well4444 ,also1 when you come ,i want you to read a chapter in ,sartor ,resartus4 ,it is called the ,everlasting ,yea4 ,it is beautiful2 and it is when he has given up all selfish feeling for himself and feels in sympathy with the whole world4 ,frederick ,locker would write special verses for her ,christmas cards4 ,he criticised her drawings1 interjecting in his letters with curious abruptness and delightful irrelevancy1 as though half afraid of his temerity1 such remarks as3 #8,do you think the ,bride sitting under the tree is so feeble that she could not stand up8' or #8,are the young lady's arms 7sitting under the tree7 like cloth sausages8' and then promptly passing on to other subjects4 ,illustration3 ,,from ,,carefully ,,executed ,,water-,,colour ,,drawings ,,on ,,letters ,,addressed ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,frederick ,,locker-,,lampson4 ,at her request he also criticised her verse4 ,here is an example3-- ,you ask me to do what ,shelley would have had a difficulty in doing4 ,are you aware that your poem1 as it stands1 is only not prose because of the inversions8 and it has neither rhythm1 metre1 nor rhyme1 excepting #8fun' and #8done1' which is not a rhyme to the eye4 #8,let me lie quietly in the ,sunshine on ,god's green grass1 for the laugh and fun is 78 are7 over and ,god's day is nearly done4' ,i defy ,shelley1 or any one1 to rhyme those short lines--in the childish language you want4 ,it is not possible4 ,you must either lengthen the lines--or allow yourself a more free and complex diction4 ,something like this3 ,the sun is warm1 so let me lie ,and sweetly rest4 ,the grass is soft and that is why ,i like it best4 ,the games are over that made us gay-- ,and all the fun4 ,the sun is dying1 so ,god's fair day ,is nearly done4 ,then he would advise her how to take criticism3-- ,you must be influenced by what the critics say up to a certain point--but not beyond4 ,it is very annoying to be misunderstood and to see critics trying to show off their own cleverness1 but you are now paying the penalty of success1 and ,tennyson suffers from it1 and your friend ,ruskin and ,carlyle and all who make their mark in works of imagination4 ,i quite feel what you say about ,ruskin4 ,there does seem to be a #8holiness' about his words and ideas4 ,i am very glad he telegraphed to you1 and wrote4 ,his opinion is worth all the commonplace critics put together1 and worth more than the opinion of nineteen out of twenty ,royal ,academicians4 ,again1 when one of the critics had complained of the lack of vitality and the woe-begone expression in her children's faces1 he consoled her and criticised her together3-- ,sept4 #ahha4 ,i have been thinking over what ,i said about expression in your faces4 ,i do not think it would suit the style and spirit of your pictures if they were exactly gay children--but at present the same sort of complaint might be made about them that is made about ,burne-,jones's1 and with more reason1 for nearly all the subjects you treat of are cheerful1 and some playful1 and none are classic or tragic4 ,there is no doubt that ,b4-,j4 is wrong and the critics are right1 but still ,i am grateful to ,b4-,j4 and take thankfully what he gives me1 and think it very beautiful1 but ,i cannot but feel its monotony of expression4 ,any mirth in your pictures should be quite of the subdued kind1 such as you see in those delicious pictures of ,stothard4 ,just get out the volume that you have and look at #8,hunt the ,slipper' and many others1 and you will see exactly what ,i want4 ,you also see it in ,reynolds1 but often overdone1 and more overdone in ,romney and what ,i call the #8roguish' school4 ,leech has often children that look very happy without an absolute smile4 ,you must make your faces look happy4 ,to this she replied in a letter from ,pemberton ,gardens3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,frederick ,,locker 444 ,you are quite right about the expressions4 ,of course1 it is absurd for children to be having a game and for their faces to be plunged in the deepest despair and sadness4 ,i shall bear it in mind1 and ,i hope to do better in my next4 ,the deep colour you complain of in some is due to hurry1 ,i'm afraid4 ,there was no time to prove this book1 and ,i never had any proof for correction at all1 for ,mr4 ,evans said it was impossible1 it must go2 and some of the darker ones suffer in consequence4 ,i know you imagine ,i'm always having them for correction1 and sending them back and back again2 but that is not so4444 ,i've found a good subject for you to exercise your energy upon1 namely1 the ,penny ,postage stamp4 ,get the colour changed and you will confer a benefit on everybody4 ,the old ,penny ,stamp was a good red4 ,then they changed to a worse2 and now to this detestable purple colour4 ,i never put one on a letter without hating the sight of it4 ,i can't tell you how bitter ,i feel4 ,they ought to study colour in all things4 ,i feel a competent judge to-day1 because ,i flatter myself that this morning ,i have executed a drawing which for colour is--is--is--too--too--too---- as ,i look at it ,i feel happy4 7,compare feeling for postage stamps47 ,illustration3 #8,a ,,calm ,,in ,a ,,tea-,,cup4' ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn4 ,it is a girl walking a baby2 she has an orange spotted dress and a yellow hat with a green wreath round it1 and the baby has a white frock with a blue sash and blue toes4 ,do you see the picture8 ,your little baby girl seems to me as if she ought always to wear a coral necklace and have blue bows to tie up her shoes4 ,to the same subject of solemn expression in her children ,mr4 ,locker returns in #ahhb3 ,i was looking at your sketch of the #8little giddy laugh1' and ,i really think it is the only figure of yours ,i know that has a smile on its face4 ,he kept a sharp eye on her employers1 too1 and helped her in business matters4 ,in #ahha he wrote3 ---- told me you were engaged on two works for his house1 in one of which you were associated with ,crane and ,caldecott4 ,now remember you are to be treated on as handsome terms as those two gentlemen or ,i shall not be satisfied4 ,we must find out what they are to receive4 ,when his twins were born he called upon her to paint them1 embodying his request in the following charming lines3-- ,yes1 there they lie1 so small1 so quaint-- ,two mouths1 two noses1 and two chins-- ,what painter shall we get to paint ,and glorify the twins8 ,to give us all the charm that dwells ,in tiny cloaks and coral bells1 ,and all those other pleasant spells ,of babyhood2--and don't forget ,the silver mug for either pet2 ,no babe should be without it3 ,come1 fairy ,limner1 you can thrill1 ,our hearts with pink and daffodil ,and white rosette and dimpled frill2 ,come paint our little ,jack and ,jill-- ,and don't be long about it6 ,and sometimes ,kate would take ,locker in hand and talk about his work4 #8,so it is a little ,french poem you have been translating1' she writes4 #8,i wish you would do more of that sort of thing--and some new originals too2 then ,i would do the illustrations to them4' ,the proposal was seriously considered for a time1 but never was carried into execution--at least1 for publication4 ,what happened was this4 ,locker-,lampson had written a number of poems on his children 7published in #ahha71 and as a surprise present for his wife ,kate ,greenaway made a series of drawings in a tiny ,,ms4 volume1 and the poet copied his verses on to the pages in his beautiful handwriting4 ,this1 he afterwards told ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson1 was the most anxious experience of his life2 for the drawings were done first1 and he was in agony all the time lest he should make a mistake or a blot4 ,the result of the collaboration is one of the most exquisite little bibelots it is possible to imagine1 and the pretty title of it1 #8,babies and ,blossoms4' ,their delightful friendship lasted for fifteen years1 and when he died in #ahie his son wrote to her3 #8,a son has lost the most dear father a son ever had1 and friends the truest friend a friend ever had4' ,an equal favourite1 too1 with ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson and with her children1 to whom in #ahhc she had dedicated ,little ,ann1 embellishing the page with their four portraits1 ,miss ,greenaway continued her visits after ,mr4 ,locker-,lampson's death4 ,she played hockey with them1 and entered heartily into all their games4 ,she #8corrected' ,miss ,dorothy ,locker-,lampson's drawings1 and she sent priceless little drawings of her own to ,godfrey ,locker-,lampson at ,eton4 ,of the last of the visits one of them wrote3 #8,it was such tremendous fun having you here1 and you so enter into our roystering spirits4' ,and again3 #8,i wish you were here to join in with your rippling laughter4' ,her attachment for her hostess was very strong1 and she would write to #8,my dear dear ,mrs4 ,locker' letters full of affection and gratitude and of love for the children4 ,at the same time she was not to be lured from her work1 and in thanking ,mrs4 ,locker for her repeated invitations and kindness--#8it makes the world so much more beautiful1' she said--she firmly declined to budge2 but finding it hard to refuse1 she would write to ,mr4 ,locker 7,april #h1 #ahhb73 ,don't let ,mrs4 ,locker ask me to come4 ,do explain to her2 tell her ,mrs4 ,jeune asked me to go to see her and ,i was obliged to say ,no4 ,and it all looks so delicious2 even about here the trees are so tendrilly and pretty1 and it is so sunny and holiday feeling--,i long to be out in it all4 ,it is quite an effort to sit at the table bending over my paper4 ,all the little children are out in the gardens and ,i hear their voices4 ,i even envy the cats as they run along the wall4 ,illustration3 ,,from ,a ,,water-,,colour ,,drawing ,,on ,a ,,letter ,,addressed ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,frederick ,,locker-,,lampson4 ,she would not only illustrate her letters to ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson with the little pen sketches she bestowed on her other favoured friends1 she would now and again embellish them with finished water-colour drawings exquisite in quality4 ,of these one or two are here reproduced1 but they necessarily lose most of their charm in surrendering their beauty of colour4 ,the last of the letters runs as follows3-- ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,mrs4 ,frederick ,locker-,lampson4 ,dear ,mrs4 ,locker--,you see me at the top doing penance in my own particular style1 being1 according to ,mr4 ,locker's advice--uninfluenced by the works of others4 ,i do not know which bear 7black1 white1 or brown7 behaves in the most bearish manner1 but ,i feel ,i am of that colour2 but please forgive me and let me say thank you very much for your beautiful gift4 ,you must not think so much of any little sketches ,i do for you2 it is only my voice saying thank you for all your kindness always4 ,the half of the candle belongs to ,mr4 ,locker for his dear little box4 ,,chapter ,,vii #ahha-ahhb ,,the ,,empress ,,frederick1 ,,mrs4 ,,richmond ,,ritchie1 ,,ruskin1 ,,and ,,mr4 ,,punch--#8,a ,,day ,,in ,a ,,child',s ,,life'--#8,,little ,,ann' ,,and #8,,mother ,,goose4' ,as has already been said1 to drive to a palace in a royal carriage to see a princess had been a dream of ,kate's childhood2 and in the year #ahha her baby wish saw its almost complete fulfilment4 ,royalties with a small #8r' were now1 she said1 a matter of course to her1 but of ,royalties with a big #8,r' she had as yet no experience4 ,in her diary of engagements1 the entry #8,sunday1 ,july #ag1 ,crown ,princess of ,germany1' foretells her first visit to ,buckingham ,palace4 ,her own account is not forthcoming1 but we have hint of it in the following quotation from a letter written to her by ,mrs4 ,richmond ,ritchie4 ,it was just like a fairy tale to hear of you at court with all the nice little princes and princesses hopping about and asking you to make enchanting things for them4 ,mrs4 ,stanley#bf says they one and all lost their hearts to you1 and to me for bringing you to their threshold4 ,to this ,mrs4 ,ritchie adds3 ,i remember ,miss ,greenaway telling me of her visit to the ,crown ,prince and ,princess at ,buckingham ,palace1 and how cordial they were1 and how the ,crown ,prince came in and put his hand on his wife's shoulder and said laughing1 #8,i am the husband1' as he stood up like a column by the ,princess1 who was a little woman4 ,this was the beginning of a friendship which did as much honour to the ,imperial lady as to the artist whose worth she was so ready to recognise4 ,until the ,empress's death ,kate ,greenaway's books1 as often as not extra-embellished with original drawings1 and her autographed ,christmas cards1 were always received with appreciative acknowledgments1 generally accompanied by some little souvenir in return4 ,they would be accompanied by letters from the ,count ,seckendorff such as these sent by the ,empress's command3#bg-- ,,count ,,seckendorff ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,osborne1 ,dec4 #beth1 #ahhh4 ,dear ,miss ,kate ,greenaway--,her ,majesty the ,empress ,frederick desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your charming new little book1 and to say how very kind it was of you to think of her just now at ,christmas time4 ,her ,majesty is most grateful to you for your artistic little present4--,believe me1 dear ,miss ,kate ,greenaway1 very sincerely yours1 ,g4 ,,seckendorff4 ,,count ,,seckendorff ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,the ,,empress ,,frederick',s ,,palace1 ,,berlin1 ,jan4 #bfth1 #ahie4 ,dear ,miss ,greenaway--,you have had the kindness to send ,her ,majesty the ,empress ,frederick such a charming little drawing for ,christmas4 ,her ,majesty was delighted with it4 ,the little ,almanack is giving her so much pleasure4 ,will you kindly accept in return a new photo of ,her ,majesty which ,i am sending by ,royal ,messenger to-day8--,believe me1 dear ,miss ,greenaway1 very sincerely yours1 ,g4 ,,seckendorff4 ,of one of these presents ,ruskin wrote on ,december #cj1 #ahhd3 ,i liked hearing about the present from the ,princess4 ,i wonder what it can be4 ,i wish ,i was a ,prince and could send you pearls and rubies4 ,at one time the ,empress ,frederick showed a personal sympathy not indicated by these formal letters1 and during the period of her great sorrow wrote to ,miss ,greenaway touchingly and at length2 but that correspondence no longer exists4 ,about this time ,miss ,greenaway was introduced at the house of the ,hon4 ,mrs4 ,stanley to the ,princess ,christian1 whose appreciation of her both personally and as an artist is shown in several letters from this year onwards1 preserved by her with affectionate care4 ,as ,mrs4 ,richmond ,ritchie's name has been mentioned1 it should be said that for years she and ,kate ,greenaway were on terms of close intimacy1 and although they were not able so frequently to meet in later years1 there was always the most cordial regard and love between them4 ,in #ahhe there was talk of their #8doing a story together1' but it never came to anything2 yet the idea had evidently been long in their heads1 for in #ahha ,mrs4 ,ritchie had written3 #8,when we write our book it shall be called 8,treats10 ,i think1 and be all about nice things that happen to little girls--don't you think so8' ,it is matter for regret that a proposal so full of charming possibilities was never carried into execution4 ,in the same year ,routledge ,sons published ,mother ,goose1 or ,the ,old ,nursery ,rhymes1 ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway--one of her daintiest productions1 although marred in several instances by crude printer's ink and careless register4 ,its success1 though not equalling that of the ,birthday ,book1 was yet very great1 #ff1jjj copies being printed in ,english1 ,german1 and ,french4 ,the sum of #beb was paid to her for the use of the drawings1 and in royalties she received over #fej4 ,the book bears on the title-page the baby thrown into a basket of roses which so took ,ruskin's fancy4 ,as ,mrs4 ,allingham has said1 #8,no one could draw roses like ,kate ,greenaway1' and other critics have compared her drawing of flowers with the work now of ,van ,huysum and now of ,botticelli4 ,some papers complained that some of the nursery rhymes had been unduly tampered with2 but the illustrations met everywhere with the most cordial praise4 ,an enthusiastic critic exclaimed1 #8,should the children of the present generation happen to take into their little curly heads to call together a 8monster0 meeting--say in the ,lowther ,arcade--and propose1 second1 and resolve to erect a great public monument to some favourite goddess1 we have a strong conviction that1 on a show of tiny hands being taken1 the chairman would declare that ,miss ,kate ,greenaway had been unanimously elected for the honour4' ,it should be remembered that #8correct versions' of nursery rhymes and tales vary in different parts of the country1 and that every one considers the version of his childhood the true one4 ,kate ,greenaway naturally adopted those she had learnt in ,london or in ,nottinghamshire1 and the charge of #8tampering' falls to the ground4 ,illustration3 ,,out ,,for ,a ,,walk4 ,from a water-colour drawing executed in the album of ,ernest ,g4 ,brown1 ,esq4 ,this year she also contributed a charming frontispiece entitled #8,little ,fanny' to ,routledge's ,christmas ,number1 which should not be forgotten by the collector4 ,it was a wonderful shilling's worth for those days1 and including as it does contributions by ,caldecott1 ,gustave ,dor 7then at the zenith of his somewhat evanescent fame71 ,griset1 and ,mr4 ,walter ,crane1 it is now something of a trouvaille4 ,another trifle of this year which should not be overlooked is a tail-piece1 #8,little ,dinky1' done for ,locker-,lampson's privately produced selection of his ,london ,lyrics4 ,kate was now hard at work on the illustrations for ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life1 ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway1 ,music by ,myles ,b4 ,foster1 to be published by ,messrs4 ,routledge in #ahhb4 ,concerning its origin ,mr4 ,foster--son of the eminent water-colour painter1 ,birket ,foster--writes3 ,if ,i remember rightly1 ,i had already put the whole thing together1 and1 in fact1 ,i had suggested this as a happy #8follow' to ,the ,children's ,christmas1 by ,bob and myself4 ,it seemed such a nice subject for children's music4 ,i culled from books ,nos4 #a1 #c1 #d1 #e1 and #h1 asked my friend ,m4 ,gibney to write #8,tired1' compounded the rhymes of #8,the ,lesson' and #8,sleeping' myself1 and then showed the whole thing1 already set to music1 to ,mr4 ,evans1 and he suggested sending it to ,k4 ,g41 saying that if she liked the idea1 she would illustrate it4 ,that ,i believe to be the commencement4 ,at this time some hundreds of mill-hands at ,keighley in ,yorkshire and at ,holt in ,wiltshire were finding pleasure in ,the ,children's ,christmas1 and the thought of their wishes and little needs largely led me on to the work in question1 and they performed the ,day in a ,child's ,life very prettily in tableaux4 ,it was followed each year by a new work 7with my own words7--,cinderella1 ,beauty and the ,beast1 ,lampblack1 etc4--but1 alas1 all these lacked the charm of ,kate ,greenaway's exquisite art4 ,commercially considered1 this extremely pretty book was a success1 #be1jjj copies being issued to the ,english-speaking world alone1 yet the press was not unanimous in its approval4 ,the ,times especially complained that #8,miss ,greenaway seems to be lapsing into rather a lackadaisical prettiness of style4 ,her little people are somewhat deficient in vitality4 ,on the whole1 we fear we can hardly1 for all its prettiness of binding and colouring1 recommend her ,day in a ,child's ,life as a very cheerful present1 nor is the selection of songs which she has illustrated of a much more stimulating order4' ,this year on no fewer than three separate occasions ,punch again turned his attention to ,miss ,greenaway1 all within the space of one month4 ,on ,december #aj1 under the heading #8,punch's 8,mother ,hubbard0 ,grinaway ,christmas ,cards1' ,mr4 ,harry ,furniss gave a full-page drawing of fourteen grouped cards1 the first of which represented ,mr4 ,punch presenting a ,christmas card to the ,queen and ,royal ,family1 all1 saving ,her ,majesty1 being dressed in ,greenaway costumes4 ,john ,bright appears as ,little ,jack ,horner1 picking a #gjth plum out of his birthday pie2 the ,duke of ,cambridge in petticoats is riding a cock-horse2 ,mr4 7,lord7 ,cross as ,jack--,jill is in the background--has tumbled down with a pail of #8,thames ,water ,bill'2 ,lord ,randolph ,churchill1 as ,little ,tommy ,tattlemouse1 is haranguing #8a little house' from the box of the ,fourth ,party2 ,sir ,john ,millais is trying a glass slipper on the foot of his own #8,cinderella'2 the ,duke of ,bedford1 as #8,mary ,mudford quite contrary1' is appreciatively contemplating the untidiness and inhaling the perfume of ,covent ,garden market2 ,mr4 ,fawcett1 postmaster-general1 as #8,spring-heeled ,jack1' is taking a flying leap over the telegraph wires2 ,mr4 ,parnell1 as the wolf in bed1 casts his ogreish eyes on the little figure of ,ireland and her basket of neglected ,irish ,industry2 ,mr4 ,gladstone1 as the #8,jack1' is chopping down the beanstalk of the ,land ,league2 ,sir ,whittaker ,ellis1 the new ,lord ,mayor of ,london1 as ,dick ,whittington1 is issuing invitations from the ,mansion ,house2 and other topics of the day are introduced with similar ingenuity4 ,on ,december #ag1 ,mr4 ,linley ,sambourne contributed one of his most highly finished drawings1 entitled #8,the ,royal ,birthday ,book4' ,mr4 ,punch1 kneeling in court-dress1 receives ,princess ,beatrice's ,birthday ,book from the ,princess herself1 an ideally and delightfully draped figure wearing coronet and sandals1 the central figure of the composition4 ,toby stands on guard1 crayon-holder in hand1 while on the clouds1 prominent among other floating figures1 like sympathetic familiars1 are ,kate ,greenaway 7in ,kate ,greenaway costume71 ,caldecott1 and ,mr4 ,walter ,crane4 ,the accompanying legend runs3 ,the ,christmas volumes well deserve their gains ,of ,caldecott's1 ,kate ,greenaway's1 and ,crane's4 ,fair ,beatrice1 we thank you for your pains4 ,much ,ado ,about ,something1 ,act ii4 ,sc4 #c 7,mr4 ,punch's ,version74 ,and finally1 on ,december #bd1 ,mr4 ,furniss gave a second series of four #8,grinaway ,christmas ,cards1' in which ,mr4 ,edison figures as ,aladdin1 ,britannia as ,old ,mother ,hubbard1 ,mrs4 ,langtry as the ,sleeping ,beauty1 and ,irving1 ,ellen ,terry1 ,mrs4 ,kendal1 ,charles ,warner1 ,nellie ,farren1 ,bancroft1 ,toole1 ,brough1 and others as the ,girls and ,boys coming out to ,play4 ,it was all excellent fooling--another indication1 if one were needed1 that ,kate ,greenaway's name and method were name and method to conjure with4 ,the following letter of this year from a highly distinguished authoress who wishes to preserve her anonymity gives a vivid idea of the pleasure which her books brought into innumerable homes3-- ,october #aj1 #ahha4 ,dear ,miss ,greenaway--,your sweet little white sibylline volumes have again come to delight us all--thank you so very much4 ,h4 7aged #c years7 came bundling down1 panting1 with her book in her pinafore and wildly excited4 7,i think on the whole she likes #8,jumping ,joan' best--but she likes each best47 ,b4 7aged #a7 came in also breathless to look at ,h4's book4 ,h4 firmly said1 #8,no1 ,b41 you may just look1 you mustn't touch it4' ,then ,b4 was held down by force and we lit the candles1 and ,h4 looked at her prize while ,i looked at mine with ,b4 7only ,b4 and ,h4 couldn't understand how the two books could be so exactly alike74 ,then ,r4 came home and we all exclaimed together1 and now we all send you our love and our thanks1 dear1 again for your beautiful gift4 ,are you rested and stronger8 ,did you have a pleasant summer8 ,we are only just home from a great many clouds and fields and children and dandelions1 to find them all again in your sweet incantation4 ,l4 ,t4 told us about your ,princesses' visits1 which was most thrilling and interesting4 ,good-night1 and thank you again for all of us4 ,at this time ,kate was sending copies of her ,mother ,goose to a few chosen friends1 among them to her kind mentor and chief adviser ,h4 ,stacy ,marks2 and the presentation brought her the following critical letter of acknowledgment3-- ,,stacy ,,marks ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,oct4 #aath1 #ahha4 ,dear ,kate ,greenaway--,many thanks for your last book4 ,you will get #8tired' of sending me your works sooner than ,i of receiving them4 ,i have not acknowledged the receipt of this before because ,i knew you would prefer a letter telling you what ,i think of your work 7even if somewhat critical7 to a mere formal one of thanks4 ,i thank you all the same very much1 for your work always gives me pleasure--it seems so happy and so fearless of all the conventional rules and ideas that obtain generally about the art4 ,in many respects you have improved1 and the drawing is firmer and better4 ,but let me have my fault-finding first1 for #8,i am nothing if not critical4' ,you have got rid of the spur-like shadows1 but where1 even in ,england1 do you see such cabbagy trees as on pages #e1 #g1 #bi8 ,you might find a better pattern even in the elm1 which is cabbagy4 ,the action of the figure on page #dj is impossible coming downhill--how about the centre of gravity1 madam8 ,you know ,i am not conventional1 but ,i am troubled to know why you don't make the hero of your story more conspicuous4 ,thus on page #dg ,tom the ,piper's son is the least prominent figure in the composition1 and where are the boys8 ,again--the ,beggars coming to town are in the far distance1 and there's only one dog6 ,what ,i mean is1 that these two don't tell their story1 but ,i suppose you have some good reason for your treatment4 ,as instances of fearlessness1 ,i admire the pluck which can place a face directly against a window with each pane made out as on page #ab1 and the arrangement of the stick in ,jack ,horner which coincides with his head and both hands1 and as it 7the stick7 is not continued to the ground we can only suppose it to be resting on the boy's knees4 ,and now ,i have done being disagreeable4 ,despite its little faults1 it is a charming book4 ,your backgrounds of old houses are delightful4 ,the two most pictorial drawings are #8,polly1 put the kettle on' and #8,cross-patch4' ,the latter is especially good and might be painted--the right fore-arm only should be a bit more foreshortened4 ,a last look gives me a last fault to find--the chins1 especially in some of the boys1 are still very pointed4 ,there6 now ,i have finished1 but ,i don't apologise for telling you the truth from my point of view1 because ,i know you are strong enough to bear it and amiable enough to like it4 ,it will always be a source of pride to me to remember 7as you told me7 that ,i was1 though in the humblest way1 partly instrumental in finding you the way your strength lay4 ,illustration3 #8,,lucy ,,locket ,,lost ,,her ,,pocket4' ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,w4 ,finch1 ,esq4 ,ruskin received his copy in a less critical spirit2 and a few weeks later he wrote3 ,,john ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 ,,coniston1 ,christmas ,day1 #ahha4 ,my dear ,miss ,greenaway--,you are the first friend to whom ,i write this morning2 and among the few to whom ,i look for real sympathy and help4 ,you are fast becoming--,i believe you are already1 except only ,edward ,b4 ,jones--the helpfullest in showing me that there are yet living souls on earth who can see beauty and peace and ,goodwill among men--and rejoice in them4 ,you have sent me a little choir of such angels as are ready to sing1 if we will listen1 for ,christ's being born--every day4 ,i trust you may long be spared to do such lovely things1 and be an element of the best happiness in every ,english household that still has an ,english heart1 as you are already in the simpler homes of ,germany4 ,to my mind ,ludwig ,richter and you are the only real philosophers and----#bh of the ,nineteenth ,century4 ,i'll write more in a day or two about many things that ,i want to say respecting the possible range of your subjects4 ,i was made so specially happy yesterday by finding ,herrick's ,grace among the little poems--but they are all delightful4--,ever gratefully and affectionately yours1 ,j4 ,,ruskin4 ,the year #ahhb was chiefly occupied with the illustrations for a new edition of that early love of hers1 ,little ,ann and other ,poems1 by ,jane and ,ann ,taylor1 a charming production1 though slightly marred by certain little faults of drawing which1 with all her strict self-training1 ,miss ,greenaway strangely enough never quite overcame4 ,the #8stilt-like' shadows had certainly disappeared1 but the feet still sometimes went a little astray1 and signs were not wanting here and there that seem to herald the advent of mannerism4 ,but it was a passing phase4 ,she was now suffering more than ever from imitators1 to the vast indignation of her friends and admirers4 ,for example1 ,mr4 ,locker designates a book entitled ,afternoon ,tea #8a shameful imitation of your manner1 which if it goes on will tend to disgust the brutal ,british public and therefore injure you4' ,in ,belgium especially1 where she had a great vogue1 not only were her books themselves being imitated1 but the illustrations were copied without acknowledgment on to handkerchiefs1 plates1 vases1 caskets1 and other objects of commerce1 and the copying was so vilely done that they were caricatures rather than reproductions of her work4 ,all this tended1 as ,mr4 ,locker truly predicted1 to vulgarise the ,fairyland which she was creating4 ,as far as she could ,kate combated the evil by refusing to part with the copyright of her works4 ,in #ahih she wrote to ,mr4 ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,m4,p41 a generous patron for whom she would certainly have strained a point if she could3 ,thank you so very much for the cheque1 but ,i'm so sorry ,i cannot give you the copyright4 ,i have made it a rule for a long time not to part with the copyright of my drawings1 for ,i have been so copied1 my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways ,i hate4 ,nor was ,belgium the only offending land4 ,in ,france and ,england there were also many manufacturers who recognised the adaptability of her designs for printed fabrics and did not hesitate to #8lift' them for their own purposes4 ,still1 there were honourable exceptions among those who were not prepared to copy or adapt her productions without receiving due permission and offering pecuniary acknowledgment4 ,the offers of most of these1 however1 she did not care to accept1 from a feeling that the #8pot-boiling' character of the work would be derogatory to her art4 ,but apropos of an application by ,mr4 ,powell1 of the ,whitefriars glassworks1 it may be mentioned that the very next year ,ruskin himself carried out his expressed intention1 and had a drawing of hers of a little girl with a doll #8put on glass1' and wrote of it from ,brantwood3 ,it will be a nursery window when you are next here1 but it might be1 as rightly1 part of a cathedral window4 ,a gratifying episode of #ahhb was the appearance in the great ,french art magazine1 the ,gazette des ,beaux-,arts 7vol4 i4 pp4 #gd et seq47 of an article by ,monsieur ,alfred de ,lostalot1 in which1 whilst recognising particulars in which her work fell short of that of ,caldecott and ,mr4 ,walter ,crane1 he yet gave her the first place for the special qualities of charm and sentiment4 ,and1 after a eulogy too long to quote here1 he ends up quaintly--#8,meanwhile ,i shall lock up the works of ,w4 ,c41 of ,c41 and of ,kate ,greenaway in my bookcase with precious care2 unexpected conclusion3 works so precious cannot be left in the hands of children6' ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,lily ,evans4 ,kate ,greenaway knew exactly what kind of letters children like to receive1 and she loved to send them playful missives1 instinct with her love of flowers and animals4 ,an example of such letters1 addressed to the little friend for whom she had so tender an affection1 may be given in illustration4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,miss ,,lily ,,evans ,my dear ,lily--,i have not written to fix a day because ,i felt ,i ought not to spare one just now--or indeed for a little time longer4 ,now will you mind waiting a little longer1 then my mind will be more at rest1 and we will have a real beautiful day4 ,i'm very sorry to ask you to wait1 but ,i know you won't mind really4 ,also more things will be up in the garden and in my boxes of dirt4 ,window-boxes for plants1 which ,miss ,evans1 as a country child1 had never seen before4 ,i am just going to get pansies in them4 ,i've a real hope that ,i do see golden rod coming up at last--or does a witch live in our garden1 and is it phlox after all8 ,some time after ,easter1 when you have time to spare1 you will get me some more primroses4 ,those last were real beauties1 and lived like anything4 ,in the excitement of coming away ,i quite forgot to thank ,miss---- for all the trouble she took helping to get them for me1 so you thank her now4 ,the kitten has hurt its foot a little4 ,the spring gets into its head and ,i'm afraid causes it to run on walls with broken glass on the top1 or perhaps it attends a dancing class on the quiet and practises too much4 ,anyhow it is constantly making itself lame1 and when it loses the use of a sponge and towel at one go1 you can guess how it looks--a little rim of white round its mouth and the rest nicely toned4 ,good-bye4 ,love to ,e4 and all1 and we will go as soon as ever ,i can4 ,k4 ,g4 ,illustration3 ,from a ,pencil ,sketch in the possession of ,lady ,pontifex4 ,,chapter ,,viii #ahhb 7continued7 ,,and #ahhc ,,the ,,ruskin ,,and ,,severn ,,friendship ,,ripens--,,at ,,brantwood--#8,,the ,,art ,,of ,,england'--,,ruskin',s ,,advice--,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,first ,,almanack--,a ,,greenaway #8,,boom'--,,mr4 ,,austin ,,dobson4 ,ruskin1 as has been seen1 took the art of ,kate ,greenaway very seriously long before she became personally known to him1 and it is evident1 from the portion of a letter found amongst her papers1 probably forwarded to her by the recipient1 that he had some hesitation in opening the correspondence which began after the dinner with ,stacy ,marks4 ,the fragment1 which runs as follows1 bears no indication either of the recipient's name or of the occasion of the writing2 but in all probability it was addressed to ,mr4 ,stacy ,marks himself1 their common friend4 ,it is a feeling of the same kind which keeps me from writing to ,miss ,greenaway--the oftener ,i look at her designs1 the more ,i want a true and deep tone of colour1--and a harmony which should distinctly represent either sunshine1 or shade1 or true local colour4--,i do not know how far with black outline this can be done but ,i would fain see it attempted4 ,and also ,i want her to make more serious use of her talent--and show the lovely things that are1 and the terrible which ought to be known instead of mere ugly nonsense1 like that brown witch4#bi--;,if she would only do what she naturally feels1 and would wish to teach others to feel without any reference to saleableness--she probably would do lovelier things than any one could tell her--and ,i could not tell her rightly unless ,i knew something of her own mind1 even what might be immediately suggestive to her1 unless perhaps harmfully4 ,please tell me your own feeling about her things4 ,j4 ,r4 ,a correspondence1 however1 ensued1 which led up1 on ,december #bi1 #ahhb1 to this laconic but all-important entry in her diary3 #8,mr4 ,ruskin came4 ,first time ,i ever saw him4' ,his advent had been heralded by the following letter3-- ,,john ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway #bgth1 ,dec4 #hb4 ,dear ,miss ,greenaway--,friday will do delightfully for me1--even better than to-day--having been tired with ,xmas letters and work4 ,this is a lovely little book--all through--the ,new and ,old ,years are chiefly delightful to me4 ,but ,i wish some of the children had bare feet--and that the shoes of the others weren't quite so like mussel-shells4 ,the drawing on my letter however is perfect6 shoes and all--eyes and lips--unspeakable4--,ever your grateful and devoted ,j4 ,,ruskin4 ,from the first moment of their meeting a friendship sprang up which grew in strength and mutual appreciation until his death in #aijj4 ,concerning this interesting first meeting ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn writes3-- ,i shall never forget his rapturous delight at first making her acquaintance6--and she was indeed one of the sweetest1 kindest1 and most gifted of women4 ,lily ,miss ,severn was devoted to her1 and we often talk of her and deeply lament her loss4 ,she loved nothing more here at ,coniston than driving1 and was almost childish in the delight it gave her1 and with no fear of the horses--and yet she was so timid in other ways4 ,henceforth not only did ,ruskin and ,kate ,greenaway constantly meet either at ,hampstead or at ,brantwood1 where she paid him several delightful visits1 but they carried on a spirited correspondence1 which on his side certainly ran to five hundred letters1 and on hers to probably double that number4 ,for when1 in #ahhh1 illness compelled him to cease writing1 ,kate made it her kindly business to continue her frequent missives in order to add to the pleasures and relieve the monotony of a comparatively inactive old age4 ,and in order to amuse and delight him1 she illustrated nearly every letter with one sketch at least4 ,a number of these little fancies of her pen have here been reproduced4 ,illustration ,ruskin's letters are full of allusions to his overworked condition1 but while fully alive to the golden rule1 #8,when you have too much to do1 don't do it1' he never applied it to himself1 and in the end he had to pay the penalty which ,nature exacts4 ,by the kindness of ,mr4 ,ruskin's executors and literary executors--,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn1 ,mr4 ,george ,allen1 and ,mr4 ,a4 ,wedderburn1 ,k4,c4--we are enabled to take a specified tithe of his side of the correspondence4 ,in the main1 his letters will be left to speak for themselves1 for the discussion of the side-lights which they throw upon ,prterita and other of his writings1 interesting though it would be1 would lead us too far astray4 ,miss ,greenaway appears to have kept every scrap of ,ruskin's writing1 and even treasured the numerous telegrams which he sent her on special occasions2 for ,ruskin loved the telegraph4 ,he1 on the other hand1 observant of his own dictum in ,sesame and ,lilies--#8,our friends' letters may be delightful or necessary to-day3 whether worth keeping or not is to be considered'--seems to have destroyed all of hers save one1 which were received prior to #ahhg4 ,a large proportion of her letters1 as has been said1 are embellished with charming head-and tail-pieces1 to which he makes constant allusion4 ,in her diary for ,february #h1 #ahhc1 appears for the first time the entry #8,birthday ,j4 ,r4' ,henceforward the day is always so marked1 and--a sacred memory to her--is so continued even after his death4 ,in ,march she received an invitation to ,coniston1 and she wrote to ,mrs4 ,severn1 ,ruskin's cousin and adopted daughter1 to accept4 #aa ,,pemberton ,,gardens1 ,,holloway1 ,n41 #h ,march #ahhc4 ,dear ,mrs4 ,severn--,you are very very kind1 and ,mr4 ,ruskin is very very kind1 and ,i look forward with very great pleasure to the time ,i shall pass with you4444 ,and1 please1 you are not to make so much of me1 for ,i am not in the least a frog ,princess4 ,wouldn't it be nice if ,i were1 to emerge suddenly1 brilliant and splendid8 ,in ,may she paid her first visit to ,brantwood1 and found herself all at once plunged into an atmosphere of thought and art and literature which was to her alike new and exhilarating4 ,that she was somewhat bewildered by her new experiences is shown by the following quotations from letters to ,mrs4 ,evans and her daughter3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,evans ,it was all altered 7my coming here7 in such a hurry1 and since ,i have been here ,i have had so little time1 or ,i should have written sooner1 but the days do go4 ,after breakfast ,i am allowed 7which is a great favour7 to go into the study and see all sorts of beautiful things1 with little talks and remarks from ,mr4 ,ruskin as he writes2 then we go drives1 walks1 or on the lake till tea-time4 ,then it is dinner-time2 then he reads us something nice or talks in the most beautiful manner4 ,words can hardly say the sort of man he is--perfect--simply4444 ,i do not know yet when ,i shall come home--they want me to stay a month1 but ,i shall not stay nearly so long as that4 ,and again3 ,everything is confused1 ,i never know day or date4 ,i'm always looking at books or pictures4 ,i am absorbed into a new world altogether4 ,i'm sorry to say it has turned so wet2 we have to stay in and there are no more hills or lake or streams4 ,i shall be up next week4 ,i'm feeling very bad that ,i am not up now1 but ,mr4 ,ruskin wants me to stay1 wants me to tell him things about colour1 and puts it in such a way ,i can't well leave1 and the few days won't make much difference4 ,on her return home she writes to ,miss ,lily ,evans3-- ,my dear ,lily--,enjoyments seem pouring in upon you--mine are over for a time--for you see ,i am home again1 and it was so lovely up there1 you can't think4 ,you know how ,i admire things--well ,i did such a lot4 ,there was such lots to admire--such wild wide stretches of country and then such mountains--such mossy trees and stones--such a lake--such a shore--such pictures--such books--my mind was entirely content and satisfied1 and ,i miss it all so much1 and grumble and grumble like you did when you came home from ,scarborough4 ,johnny was the worm that bore it for a while1 then he turned1 and said ,i just wanted taken to a road in the ,east ,end of ,london for a while--then ,i should have all the ridiculous nonsense knocked out of my head and look upon ,hampstead#cj with gratitude4--,i daresay4 ,it's all very fine1 isn't it8 when you just come home4 ,and really you are coming out1 dining out at the ,b4,f4's#ca really6 ,i've just got a little note with ,to meet the ,,prince and ,,princess ,,christian4 ,mrs4 ,,jeune4 ,at ,home4 ,early4 ,quite fashionable6 ,i think ,i'll pass it on to you4 ,you shall be ,k4,g4 for once1 for you are coming out and growing up quite dreadfully4 ,where is ,caroline now8 ,miss ,lily ,evans' favourite doll4 ,but it don't matter1 for you're very like the old ,lily after all4 ,so good-bye1 dear1 with my dearest love4 ,k4,g4 ,this year 7#ahhc7 ,ruskin accepted his second call to the ,oxford ,professorship1 which had been interrupted in #ahgi by ill-health1 and forthwith he gave his first series of lectures on #8,the ,art of ,england1' already quoted from4 ,the following extracts from letters to ,kate dated #8,oxford1 #aath ,may #8#hc' and #8,herne ,hill1 #agth ,may #8#hc1' hint at his forthcoming lecture on #8,mrs4 ,allingham and ,kate ,greenaway4' ,i only got here this afternoon out of ,derbyshire1 and found your lovely little note waiting and it made me partly happy--and partly sorry--but chiefly the first--for indeed ,i look forward to your working at ,coniston without any acute sense of being tortured next time--when you really can get settled on those stones--7which are much better drawn than any you ever did before7--and ,i can stay to keep the cows in order6 ,my old ,chamouni guide told me once ,i was fit for nothing else4 ,i can't write a word but this to-night4--,i'll think over the drawing-cleaning2 perhaps it will be safest to trust it only to you--there's plenty of time1 for your lecture isn't till the #bcrd1--we shall have had our tea long before that4 ,i can't part with the drawing to be india ,rd india-rubbered--having them by me helps me so1 and ,i'm going to put those which ,i show--7,i'm only going to show what ,i speak of1 to prevent carelessness in looking7 under raised mounts which will quite hide soiled edges4 ,i am very anxious to know what you have been thinking about--colour1 and skies1 since you got over the first indignation at my tyrannies6--and ,i've ever so much to say about the daughter of ,heth#cb--this chiefly1 that you never need think ,i can like a tragic novel--and this is either teazing or tragedy all through4 ,the ,scotch too is execrable--and all the younger folks are merely like bolsters in a pantomime--put there to be kicked or tumbled over4 ,black has some quiet sense of humour in more refined elements--but is merely clumsy in pantomime4 ,so many thanks for the large print--but the next you choose must be cheerful4 ,illustration3 ,,two ,,girls ,,going ,,to ,,school4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,john ,riley1 ,esq4 ,on ,june #gth1 he writes from ,herne ,hill3-- ,you are not to put any more sugar-plums of sketches in your letters--as if they weren't sweet enough without4 ,besides1 ,i can't have you wasting your time and wits in that scattered dew of fancy4--,you must really gather yourself into a real rivulet between banks in perspective--and reflect everything truly that you see4 ,you absurd ,kate to think ,i was tired of the drawings4 ,i was only tired of seeing the corners unfinished--you're nearly as bad as me1 that way4 ,now be a good girl and draw some flowers that won't look as if their leaves had been in curlpapers all night--and some more chairs than that one chair--with the shade all right and the legs all square--and then ,i'll tell you what you must do next4 ,again on the #aeth1 from ,oxford3-- ,i'm thinking of you every day and a great part of the day long1 whenever ,i get out into the fields1 more and more anxious every day that you should resolve on a summer's work of utter veracity--drawing--no matter what1--but as it is4 ,i am certain all your imagination would expand afterwards1 like--a rosebud4 ,but especially ,i do want some children as they are1--and that you should be able to draw a pretty one without mittens1 and that you should be more interested in phases of character4 ,i want your exquisite feeling given to teach--not merely to amuse4 ,miss ,alexander's book#cc will delight you--but it is all chiaroscuro--or rather chiar with no oscuro--which you will always think to see in colour4 ,i'm going to do a bit of #8,kate' glass--directly1 for some ,english hall in fairyland4 ,you'll soon have proof of the lecture on you6 ,on ,june #agth1 he writes from ,oxford3-- ,what a lovely little bit of dark grounded grace6 and the two prints are delicious--but the feet are getting too small4 ,it's delightful to me beyond telling that you do yourself feel the need of a time of obedience to the #8everlasting ,yea' of ,things4--,what ,i meant by phases of character was--in painting1 what ,scott or ,shakespeare gives in words1--the differences in loveliness which are endless in humanity4 ,those little girls who were playing at being in church must have been so different from little girls who were tormented by being at church4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,yes1 it is very sad that ,i can't get done here1--but there are three years of absence to redeem1 and being allowed in my own department to have my own way entirely1 it is a very stringent duty to do the best ,i can4 ,and just think what the arrangements of a system of teaching in connection with a great ,university means1 or should mean4 ,i have mounted1 for the present1 #be of the ,mother ,goose drawings beside the plates1 and put them in a cabinet by themselves1 among our loan series4 ,people are immensely interested in them1 and feel the difference between drawing and plate quite as you would like them to4 ,every drawing has its own sliding frame and glass so that they are absolutely safe1 as far as handling is concerned4 ,you must hear a little more about ,miss ,a4's before you see them2 and ,i shall very soon have a proof of lecture for you4 ,and from ,brantwood on the #bbnd3-- ,what lovely1 lovely things these are1 that have come to-day--the tambourine and the looking out to sea4--,but your own eyes ought to have been three times as big--on your eyes be it--and ,i don't understand the doggie carrying the maulstick--because ,i've never seen you with a pet in a blue riband--and the first thing ,i should have done would have been to order the feather out of your hat6444 ,it was nice1 that1 of the gentleman and friendship--and yet it wasn't4 ,how dogged the ,english are in thinking that you can't praise anybody honestly4 ,i got tired at ,oxford and had to run down here for some rest--but shall be up again in a week or two and ,i hope in the mean time to get some things organised for engraving some of the line sketches in line1 and the moment this bad weather is past1 ,i shall expect to hear of the progress of the ,river4 ,i saw a boy in a brown jacket with a yellow basket in his hand--looking up wistfully at the sky--in the main street of ,worcester--he wanted only a ,kate to draw him and would have been immortal4 ,at the end of ,june ,monsieur ,ernest ,chesneau had written to ,ruskin asking him for ,k4 ,g4's portrait and particulars of her life for an article in a ,french publication4 ,alluding to this he writes from ,brantwood on ,july #dth1 ,i kept the portrait till ,i could scarcely bear to part with it4 ,but it's gone to-day1--and ,i've wreaked my jealousy on ,m4 ,chesneau by three pages of abuse of the whole ,french nation and ,academy4 ,by this time enthusiastic admirers among foreign critics were many4 ,there were ,m4 ,arsne ,alexandre and ,m4 ,jules ,girardin of ,paris1 ,dr4 ,muther of ,breslau1 ,m4 ,a4 ,c4 ,loffelt1 art-critic of the ,dutch ,journal1 ,the ,fatherland1 and ,dr4 ,j4 ,zurcher of ,amsterdam4 ,and ,karl ,emich1 ,count of ,leiningen-,westerburg1 was among the keenest of them all4 ,even so ,parisian a personage as ,alexandre ,dumas fils1 who in #ahha had acquired one of her pictures1 was sensitively responsive to her essentially ,english art4 ,the agent through whom he purchased the drawing wrote to her3--#8,your talent is still more appreciated in ,paris than in ,london4 ,a proof of it is that all the imitations made of your works1 which are sold here1 have not any success in ,paris at all1 where something else but nice book-binding is required'--the suggestion being that1 unlike the thick-headed ,saxon1 the artistic ,gaul could discriminate unfailingly between the original and imitations--a two-edged compliment which ,kate might appreciate as best she could4 ,ruskin was much concerned at ,kate ,greenaway's occasional lack of the sense of form4 ,he did not want her to study anatomy1 but was for ever begging her in his letters to make studies from the nude figure as the only way4 ,but on this matter she was stubborn3 she had had enough of nude studies at her own studio and at ,heatherley's4 ,here are two of his numerous letters on the subject3-- ,,brantwood #ahhc4 ,i'm beginning really to have hopes of you4 ,this terrific sunset shows what a burden those red and yellow wafers have been on your conscience4 ,now1 do be a good girl for once1 and send me a little sunset as you know now how to do it--reversing everything you used to do4 --,then secondly1--,i'm in great happiness to-day thinking that ,m4 ,chesneau must have got that lovely ,kate this morning1 and be in a state words won't express the ecstasy of4 ,then thirdly--,as we've got so far as taking off hats1 ,i trust we may in time get to taking off just a little more--say1 mittens--and then--perhaps--even--shoes6--and 7for fairies7 even--stockings--,and--then-- ,my dear ,kate1--7see my third lecture sent you to-day7--it is absolutely necessary for you to be--now--sometimes1 ,classical4--,i return you--though heartbrokenly 7for the day7--one of those three sylphs1 come this morning4 ,will you--7it's all for your own good67 make her stand up1 and then draw her for me without her hat--and1 without her shoes1--7because of the heels7 and without her mittens1 and without her--frock and its frill8 ,and let me see exactly how tall she is--and how-- round4 ,note written in pencil3 #8,do nothing of the kind4 ,j4 ,s4' ,it will be so good of--and for--you--,and to1 and for--me4 ,after finishing this letter1 he has turned it over and written3-- ,july #eth4 ,finished right side yesterday4 ,that naughty ,joan got hold of it--never mind her--you see1 she doesn't like the word #8round'--that's all4 ,who1 conversant with ,miss ,greenaway's work1 can doubt that ,ruskin's advice was entirely right and sound8 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #ajth ,july _/#hc4 ,you really are as good as gold--heavenly gold of the clouds1 to be so patient--and to send me such lovely things--but ,i'll try to make them of real use to you with the public4--,the cloud fairies are ,,lovely and ,i'll have them put in a glass window the moment ,i'm sure of my workman4--7,i'm waiting in great anxiety for the result of the first trial--,i am not anxious about the colour--but about the drawing of the features and hair exactly right on the larger scale47 ,and so also the milkgirl1 tidied the least bit about the feet1 shall be glassed-in better than mirror4 ,the sunset is a delight to me and all that you say of what you used to feel1 and will again4 ,all that is necessary is some consistent attention to the facts of colour and cloud form4--,make slight pencil memoranda of these1 the next pretty one you see4 ,have you a small sketch-book always in your pocket8 ,you ought to make notes of groups of children1 and of more full faces than you-face-usually4 ,the profile is besides conventional4 ,i have never told you about ,villette etc4--,they are full of cleverness but are extremely harmful to you in their morbid excitement2 and they are entirely third-rate as literature4--,you should read nothing but ,shakespeare1 at present4 --,and--you should go to some watering place in ,august with fine sands1 and draw no end of bare feet1--and--what else the ,graces unveil in the train of the ,sea ,goddess4 ,again on the same subject he writes on the #bfth1 ,i want you to go to ,boulogne and take a course of fishwives and wading children4 ,and once more3-- ,the dancing girls are delightful but you are getting a little mannered and ,i shall press you hard for sea study4 ,no winter work will take its place4 ,i want the blue of the sea for you and the running action of the bare feet4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 ,sept4 #fth1 #ahhc4 ,what a lovely letter ,i've got this morning6 ,i can't but think that lake-pond must be a divine one ,i know between ,dorking and ,st4 ,catherine's1 ,guildford--the springs of it1 and indeed any chalk springs at their rising1 beat our rainfall streams all to mud1 they are so celestially purified by their purgatory under the chalk4 ,also they are of green water6 while ours are--purple666 ,if only1 some day next year you could come fresh to them with a sketch-book6 ,but all you have been seeing is boundlessly helpful and good for you1 and the motives of the sketches you send to-day are unsurpassable and ,i must have you carry them out when you get to work again4 ,the news of ,scarborough fills me with delight also4 ,i shall probably then be at ,abbotsford--and to get a little sketch from you at the breakfast table there6 fancy6 ,i hope my letter about the engraving will show you how ,i felt what you did6--,but you've no notion what can be done yet1 when ,i've got the man into harness4 ,his dotting tint is execrable1 but we must have clear line tints often4 ,and in the same strain-- #aith ,sept4 #ahhc4 ,yes1 ,i know well how tired you are1 and ,i do hope you'll play on the sands and do nothing but what the children do--all day long4 ,as soon as you are yourself again ,i'll tell you exactly what ,i want about the drawings4 ,there was work enough for a week in that one of the girl with brown background1 alone4--,and you ought to do nothing but patches of colour with a brush big enough to tar a boat with for months to come4 ,then ,fors ,clavigera appeared embellished for the first time with a headpiece from ,kate ,greenaway's pencil--a charming little girl watching the sun set across the sea4 ,this was followed by a sweet and dainty little dancing maiden as headpiece to ,letter #ic1 headpiece and tail-piece to ,letter #id1 headpiece to ,letter #ie1 and full-page frontispiece to ,letter #if4 ,in the last-named a dancing babe of fortune leads by the hand a still more fascinating babe in rags--the rags and babe as clean and sweet as are all the rags and babes in ,k4 ,g4's child-,utopia--whilst a dainty lady tripping in the rear impartially scatters roses over them from a basket under her arm4 ,the drawings in no way illustrated the text2 they were wholly adventitious decorations4 ,these are the only ,k4 ,g4 drawings published by ,ruskin1 saving those to ,dame ,wiggins1 of which some account appears in the next chapter1 although others were engraved4 ,these last1 or some of them1 are included in the later volumes of the noble ,library ,edition of ,ruskin's works4 ,the engravings in ,fors were executed by ,roffe4 ,their appearance on the printed page without any sign of a plate-mark is at first sight very puzzling1 but this is accounted for by the extravagant size of the plates1 which were1 by ,ruskin's special orders1 made larger than the page upon which they were destined to be printed4 ,the only one of the #8,letters' in which ,kate ,greenaway is referred to by name is ,no4 #id1 #8,retrospect4' ,ruskin is insisting upon the proper work for women1 #8scrubbing furniture1 dusting walls1 sweeping floors1 making the beds1 washing up the crockery1 ditto the children1 and whipping them when they want it1 etc4 etc4' ,then he goes on with advice as to plain work3 ,get ,miss ,stanley's book1 which gives you the elements of this work at ,whitelands1--7,i hope1 however1 to get ,miss ,greenaway to sketch us a pattern frock or two1 instead of the trimmed water-butts of ,miss ,stanley's present diagrams74 ,in the following extract from a letter of ,november #ab1 he refers to the scheme which he had in his mind for reproducing her coloured work in a more satisfactory way than could be done by the printing press4 ,k4 ,g4 was to make coloured drawings which were to be printed in outline and then coloured by hand in facsimile--a method frequently used1 but nowhere so successfully on a large scale as in ,france4 ,ruskin himself had her engravings in some copies of ,fors coloured by hand in this manner4 ,on ,november #abth1 he writes3-- ,this maid of the muffin is beyond1 beyond6 ,i must engrave her for a lovely ,fors on toasting forks4 ,the colouring of ,miss ,primrose and all others must be done for a quite full and frank payment1 enabling the colourist to count her day's work as a comfortable and profitable one4 ,each must be done as attentively and perfectly--while as simply--as possible4 ,it ought only to be part of the colourist's day's work--else it would be sickeningly monotonous--there will never be any pressure or hurry of her--the price being simply so much per score or hundred as she can deliver them4 ,the next letter refers to ,little ,ann4 ,,stacy ,,marks ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,dec4 #ca1 #ahhc4 ,i won't allow the year to pass away without thanking you for what is1 ,i think1 on the whole1 ,i might say entirely1 your best book4 ,the drawing is better and ,i think there is more feeling for grace in the figures than in the earlier works4 ,i have put it away carefully in my #8,greenaway ,collection' where it will always be a valued item4 ,your work should be all the more popular after all ,ruskin has said of it4 ,he has dined with us once or twice before he left for ,coniston and we have more than once talked of you4 ,he is a singular and wayward genius4 ,i tried to get him to admire ,caldecott but it was no use--and he had not a word to say for ,keene or ,sambourne4 ,the following extract from a letter of ,ruskin's dated #8,brantwood1 #bfth ,december #8#hc' refers to the headpiece of ,letter #ic of ,fors3-- ,i shan't go to sleep over your note to-day4 ,but ,i have no words any more than if ,i was asleep1 to tell you how marvellous ,i think these drawings4 ,no one has ever done anything equal to them in pure grace of movement--no one in exquisiteness of dainty design--,i tremble now to ask you to draw in any other way4 ,as for the gift of them1 ,i had never such a treasure given me1 in my life--but it is not for me only4 ,i am sure that these drawings will be valued endlessly and everywhere if ,i can get them engraved the least rightly1--the sight of them alters one's thoughts of all the world4 ,the little beauty with the note1 alone1 would have made a ,christmas for me4 ,i hope you will like the use ,i've made of one of your little dance-maidens--,i think her glory of simplicity comes well alone4 ,the beginning of #ahhc had seen the publication of ,kate ,greenaway's first ,almanack4 ,published at one shilling by ,george ,routledge ,sons1 and of course engraved and printed in colours by ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans1 it achieved an enormous success1 some #ij1jjj copies being sold in ,england1 ,america1 ,france1 and ,germany4 ,it was succeeded by an almanack every year 7with but one exception1 #ahif7 until #ahig1 the last being published by ,mr4 ,dent4 ,the illustrations were printed on sheets with blank spaces for the letterpress1 in which ,english1 ,french1 or ,german was inserted as the market demanded4 ,there are various little conceits about these charming productions which are calculated to appeal to the #8licquorish chapman of such wares'2 so that complete sets of them already fetch respectable sums from the collectors of beautiful books1 especially when they have not been divested of the paper envelopes or wrappers in which they were originally issued4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,old ,,farm-,,house4 ,from a large water-colour drawing in the possession of ,campbell ,s4 ,holberton1 ,esq4 ,a ,manchester bookseller who invested in three hundred copies had a startling experience4 ,almost within the week he was gratified to find that his stock was exhausted4 ,subsequently he was visited by a would-be purchaser who tendered three pence for as many copies4 ,in response he protested that the selling price was one shilling apiece1 when his customer informed him that the book was selling at that moment in ,piccadilly--,piccadilly1 ,manchester--at the price of one penny4 ,and enquiry not only proved the statement to be correct but also elicited the fact that the books in question were the property of this very bookseller1 the rapid disappearance of whose stock had been primarily due not to sales but to theft4 ,illustration ,it has been said--let us admit1 with a little exaggeration--that ,kate ,greenaway dressed the children of two continents4 ,in such measure as it is true1 this was mainly due to the fact that her almanacks found a regular sale in ,france1 from which ,america and ,europe so largely take their cue in feminine matters sartorial4 ,there was now a ,greenaway boom1 just as we have since seen a ,trilby boom1 and amongst other amusing compliments this year a firm of shoemakers approached the artist with a request to allow them to christen a special boot for children which they were putting on the market #8,the ,kate ,greenaway ,shoe4' ,inasmuch as feet were rather a weak point with her1 the application may well have proved a little disconcerting4 ,towards the end of the year a proposal was afoot that ,miss ,greenaway should issue a volume of selected poems1 with illustrations from her pencil1 and ,mrs4 ,severn proffered her aid1 if it were desired1 in making the choice4 ,to this amiable offer her friend replied3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,arthur ,,severn #aa ,,pemberton ,,gardens1 ,,holloway1 ,n41 #bith ,dec4 #ahhc4 ,my dear ,mrs4 ,severn-- 444 ,and now about the book suggestion4 ,such a book is thought of1 even planned out2 and it rested between the choice of that and one other to be the next year's book4 ,the other one was decided1 as we thought the poetry book would be the best last4 ,but ,i'll talk to you about it1 and please don't say anything about it till ,i've seen you4 ,i don't want it known that ,i'm going to do a poetry book4 ,it is an understood thing that ,i do ,,not mention the names of any book going to be done till it is brought out--and this book is to be poems of my own selection4 ,i can only do those that get into my mind of themselves--my own pets and favourites4 ,but so many thanks all the same for writing that long letter about it4444 ,with love1--,yours affectionately1 ,k4 ,g4 ,this was followed1 a little more than a month later1 by a further note on the subject3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,arthur ,,severn #aa ,,pemberton ,,gardens1 ,,holloway1 ,n41 #bnd ,feb4 #ahhd4 ,dearest ,mrs4 ,severn--,the verses have come in safety--one or two are quite new to me1 and would be exactly what ,i'd like to put in4 ,they are all nice1 but ,i doubt if in some cases the copyrights could be obtained1 and some of them are a little too much about children4 ,children1 ,i find1 like to know about other things--or what other children did--but not about children in an abstract sort of way4 ,that belongs to older people4 ,i wonder if you remember what poem you liked best when you were a child8 ,i can remember1 well1 some ,i liked1--#8,how ,horatius kept the ,bridge'--,i used to love that4 ,then #8,the ,wreck of the ,hesperus1' #8,the ,pied ,piper1' #8,the ,rope ,walk1' #8,the ,thoughts of ,youth4' ,but ,i'm afraid ,i had a great many loves--indeed1 and so ,i do now4 ,i find something to like in most things4 ,with love1 and hoping soon to see you1--,yours sincerely1 ,k4 ,g4 ,illustration3 ,,home-,,beauty4 ,poem by ,austin ,dobson4 ,drawing by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,reduced from the ,magazine of ,art1 #ahhc1 by permission of the publishers1 ,messrs4 ,cassell ,co4 ,in the summer of #ahhc a charming collaboration took place in the pages of the ,magazine of ,art 7which was then under the editorship of ,w4 ,e4 ,henley7 between ,kate ,greenaway and a poet in whose tender1 exquisite1 and dainty art she took infinite delight--,mr4 ,austin ,dobson4 ,earlier in the year an article in that magazine on #8,art in the ,nursery' had paid homage to the work of ,miss ,greenaway1 along with that of ,walter ,crane1 ,randolph ,caldecott1 ,miss ,lizzie ,lawson1 and ,m4 ,ernest ,griset4 ,but ,kate is the heroine of the band1 and the #8peculiar quality of cherubic dowdiness' of her youngsters1 the winsomeness of the babies' solemn flirtation under an immense umbrella1 and similar fascinating scenes1 received the appreciation that was their due4 ,then in a number of the magazine that contained contributions by ,robert ,louis ,stevenson1 ,cosmo ,monkhouse1 ,leader ,scott1 ,mr4 ,w4 ,c4 ,brownell1 and others1 ,kate ,greenaway contributed her charming page-drawing in which ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson's equally delicious verses were set4 ,the drawing1 here reproduced1 naturally suffers greatly from the necessary reduction in size3 lines are thickened1 the exquisite drawing of faces1 of eyes and mouths and dimpled chins1 and the dainty gradations of the pencil strokes1 are inevitably impaired if not lost4 ,but the grace of the composition1 the pretty grouping1 the sweet childish attitudes1 remain intact2 and the verses1 written in in our reproduction by ,mr4 ,dobson's own hand1 though here too small in scale to be easily read1 match the design in playful elegance4 ,they run as follows3-- ,,home-,,beauty #8,mine be a cot1' for the hours of play1 ,of the kind that is built by ,miss ,greenaway1 ,where the walls are low1 and the roofs are red1 ,and the birds are gay in the blue o'erhead2 ,and the dear little figures1 in frocks and frills1 ,go roaming about at their own sweet wills1 ,and play with the pups1 and reprove the calves1 ,and do nought in the world 7but ,work7 by halves1 ,from #8,hunt the ,slipper' and #8,riddle-me-ree' ,to watching the cat in the apple-tree4 ,o ,art of the ,household6 ,men may prate ,of their ways #8intense' and ,italanate1-- ,they may soar on their wings of sense1 and float ,to the au-del and dim remote1-- ,till the last sun sink in the last-lit ,west1 #8,tis the ,art at the ,door that will please the best2 ,to the end of ,time #8twill be still the same1 ,for the ,earth first laughed when the children came6 ,,chapter ,,ix #ahhd-ahhe #8,,language ,,of ,,flowers'--#8,,mavor',s ,,spelling-,,book'--#8,,dame ,,wiggins ,,of ,,lee'--,,ruskin ,,correspondence--,,his ,,tuition ,,and ,,plans ,,for ,,co-,,operation--,,intimacy ,,with ,,mrs4 ,,severn ,,and ,,her ,,children4 ,the industry of ,kate ,greenaway during the years #ahhd and #ahhe added considerably to the growing list of her works4 ,first there were the two ,almanacks1 which1 save for the enlarged format of that of #ahhd--;an experiment not repeated--showed a distinct advance on the first4 ,that for #ahhd certainly did not please ,ruskin1 for he wrote3-- ,i find ,baxter#cd thinks the almanack beautiful6 if that's any consolation to you--but ,i divide the figures of it simply into the ,hobblers and the ,kickers1 see ,august1 ,march1 ,june1 and ,november for the hobblers 7or shamblers7 and the rest for kickers with the one variety of ,straddler in ,october4 ,but the public was otherwise-minded and bought over #ij1jjj of the combined issues6 ,then a new experiment was tried in the shape of four calendars1 all for #ahhd2 but these proved a financial failure and had no successors1 and the designs were afterwards for the most part adapted to ,christmas cards and issued by ,goodall ,sons4 ,they are only mentioned here for the sake of completeness1 and although they contain some of ,miss ,greenaway's most charming work1 they are but trifles by the side of the more ambitious publications of these two prolific years4 ,of these the ,language of ,flowers first claims attention with an edition of #ai1ejj copies4 ,half of these went to ,america1 which country henceforth was to prove to ,k4 ,g4 a client even better than ,england4 ,this1 like the ,almanack1 failed to please ,ruskin1 who wrote on ,oct4 #hth with his usual directness3-- ,you are working at present wholly in vain4 ,there is no joy and very1 very little interest in any of these ,flower book subjects1 and they look as if you had nothing to paint them with but starch and camomile tea4 ,the fact is that the book was printed on unsuitable paper and much effect was thereby lost2 still the illustrations1 although not always very apposite1 include some of the daintiest and most exquisitely drawn figures and flowers she ever produced4 ,undeterred by ,ruskin's denunciation ,miss ,greenaway sent a copy of it to ,mrs4 ,severn with the following pathetic little note3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,arthur ,,severn #aa ,,pemberton ,,gardens1 ,,holloway1 ,n41 #ith ,nov4 #ahhd4 ,i've been thinking of you so often for days past4 ,i send you my little book4 ,mr4 ,ruskin thinks it very bad4 ,he says he's ashamed to show it to any one--,i hope it won't affect you so fearfully4 ,i am very disgusted myself--only ,i don't feel ,i am so much to blame as the printers1 who have literally blotted every picture out4 ,but1 anyhow1 you'll think ,i mean well in sending it you1 don't you8 ,and you--do you feel quite strong and well again now8444 ,remember1 when there is a chance ,i might see you1 ,i'd be very very very glad and delighted4--,yours affectionately1 ,k4 ,g4 ,then came ,kate ,greenaway's ,painting-,book which1 although it consisted of blocks brought together from ,under the ,window1 ,kate ,greenaway's ,birthday ,book1 ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life1 ,marigold ,garden1 and ,mother ,goose1 had nevertheless a great and deserved success1 and set at least forty thousand children painting away at her delightful designs4 ,this was followed by ,mavor's ,spelling-,book1 surely1 as now illustrated by ,k4 ,g41 one of the most inspiring school-books ever published for children1 with the beautifully engraved cuts printed in brown in the text4 ,ruskin wrote of it3 #8,spelling ,book ever so nice--,but do children really learn to spell like that8 ,i never did4' ,to which it may be added that his own experience is given in ,prterita1 vol4 viii4 p4 #bj 7#aijj ed474 ,oddly enough the success of the venture was comparatively small1 only #e1jjj copies being called for4 ,but when1 seeing that there was no great demand1 the publishers issued the capital letters alone in a tiny square #dhmo volume entitled ,kate ,greenaway's ,alphabet1 the vagaries of book-buying were curiously exemplified by the fact that the circulation reached the more than respectable total of #bd1ejj copies4#ce ,mr4 ,evans1 with whom the idea of illustrating ,mavor originated1 proposed that ,caldecott should be associated with ,kate ,greenaway in the work1 but to this1 in spite of her great admiration for her friend1 she would on no account consent4 ,half the number of the illustrations were engraved on wood as usual by ,mr4 ,evans4 ,the rest were reproduced by process and1 says ,mr4 ,evans1 with characteristic fair-mindedness1 neither ,k4 ,g4 nor ,caldecott could at the time say which they considered the more satisfactory4 ,kate was much amused and gratified by the notice in the ,athenum1 which waxed eloquent1 and even facetious1 over the book4 ,after comparing the little designs to those of ,stothard1 and declaring that under ,miss ,greenaway's guidance three-syllable words become quite easy1 it proceeds3 ,it is quite evident that the artist is not yet equal to four syllables--at least she has left the section which is devoted to those monsters without an illustration of any kind4 ,perhaps she1 like ourselves1 believes no boy ever gets to four syllables in ,mavor1 and thinks it useless to illustrate that stage of learning4 ,the drawings to ,mavor had a further destiny2 for several of them were used1 with the addition of colour and in reduced size1 to provide illustrations to the ,almanack of #ahhi1 while the ,almanack of #ahie 7much against ,miss ,greenaway's desire7 was entirely made up of them4 ,very beautiful they looked2 but it is more than probable that the public detected the employment of #8old matter' and that the commercial failure which attended the publication that year was at least the partial cause for the annual issue of the little work being suspended4 ,but the most important addition to the output of these years1 that which added largely to the artist's reputation1 was ,marigold ,garden1 in which she was once more author and illustrator in one4 ,for an expensive book the sales were very large1 ,england taking #f1ejj1 ,america #g1ejj1 and ,france #c1ejj copies4 ,the charm of the book lies in itself1 in spite of halting verse or summary perspective4 ,any description of it here would be inadequate3 it must be seen to be fully appreciated4 ,the year #ahhe also saw the publication of ,dame ,wiggins of ,lea and her ,seven ,wonderful ,cats4 ,a ,humorous ,tale4 ,written principally by a ,lady of ,ninety1 edited with additional verses by ,ruskin1 and with some new illustrations by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,these nursery rhymes had first seen the light in #ahbc with the woodcuts coloured by hand4 ,in the present edition these were facsimiled in outline and left1 as ,ruskin says in the preface1 for #8clever children 444 to colour in their own way4' ,of his and ,k4 ,g4's part in the republication he says3 ,i have added the rhymes on the third1 fourth1 eighth and ninth pages--the kindness of ,miss ,greenaway supplying the needful illustrations4 ,but my rhymes do not ring like the real ones2 and ,i would not allow ,miss ,greenaway to subdue the grace of her first sketches to the formality of the earlier work4 ,a further edition of the little book was published in #ahig by ,mr4 ,george ,allen4 ,in the letters preceding the publication of ,dame ,wiggins1 which by the way in ,prterita ,ruskin designates his #8calf-milk of books on the lighter side1' we find several references to ,k4 ,g4's illustrations4 ,in ,may he writes3 #8,don't bother yourself with ,dame ,wiggins--it's the cats you'll break down in4' ,but his prophecy proved wrong1 for on ,july #e he confesses #8you never shewed such sense in anything as in doing those cats'2 and again on the #aath1 #8,the cats are gone to be wood-cutted just as they are--they can't be better'2 and again on the #bith1 alluding to a further proposed collaboration3 #8,we'll do that book together of course--,i'll write a story about perpetual spring--but--however are you to learn what a lamb's like8 ,however after those ,d4 ,w4 cats ,i feel that nothing's impossible4' ,illustration3 ,,the ,,red ,,boy4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,charles ,p4 ,johnson1 ,esq4 ,about this time ,miss ,greenaway for the first and we believe the only time listened to the voice of the journalist for the purposes of an article on her art in an ,american magazine entitled ,the ,continent4 ,her hatred of publicity was not in any way overcome1 but she felt that as the article was inevitable #8facts were preferable to fiction4' ,moreover1 by reason of her consent1 she was in a position to impose restrictions1 and she made it a cardinal condition that such particulars as #8what she takes to eat before sitting down to her work1' and personalities of every sort1 should be rigorously excluded4 ,she may have been influenced to give certain authoritative information in consequence of a former experience1 when a #8lady interviewer' of an ,american journal--a lady whom she had declined to receive--published an #8interview' that was an invention from beginning to end4 ,later on ,miss ,greenaway met the ,editor of the publication and seized the opportunity to state the facts1 when he professed1 and doubtless felt1 much indignation at the imposition which had been practised upon him and the public4 ,then also occurred the fishing episode to which allusion has been made in an early chapter4 ,it is a curious commentary on the fable of the man and his ass that even ,kate ,greenaway's tender and humane designs could not escape fault-finding on ethical grounds from a hypercritical admirer of her art4 ,illustration #8,how is it1' he wrote1 #8that there are several lovely publications of yours that ,i am prevented from treating my little friends to on account of the fascination of the angling scenes which so often occur in them8444 ,do you not think there is no necessity for encouraging children to take pleasure in killing animals8' ,he had been foolish enough to object to some such innocent illustration as that of the little boy fishing1 on ,october #ad of the ,birthday ,book1 whereto is appended a verse for which1 by the way1 ,kate was not responsible3 ,what is this boy fishing for8 ,what does he hope to get8 ,he hopes to get a very fine fish1 ,but ,i think he will get wet4 ,to this remonstrance she replied to the effect that ,providence had ordained a state of war between man and the lower animals and that we must take a good many things as we find them4 ,the ,ruskin letters of #ahhd are full of interest4 ,criticism1 appreciation1 good-humoured chaff1 and sadness1 jostle one another at every turn4 ,a standing joke is ,k4 ,g4's supposed jealousy of ,miss ,alexander and her exquisite work4 ,in ,april she had asked for her autograph1 and he writes in fun1 for he could not have been serious in his criticism3-- ,much you'd care for one of ,miss ,alexander's letters--on #8principles of chiaroscuro' and the like4 ,she's drawing very badly just now--there's a little bonne-bouche for you4 ,in several letters he returns to the old charge and rallies her3-- ,thanks--more than usual--and much more1 for the little drawing--an effort in the right direction6 ,but quite seriously1 and all my wishes out of the court1 you ,,must learn to draw something more of girls than their necks and arms66 ,you must go to the seaside1 and be resolved that--if nothing else be pretty--at least the ankles shall be4 ,anon he mixes judicious praise and blame1 rarely giving her jam without a pinch of medicine in it4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,jan4 #gth1 #ahhd4 ,it's not #8horrid bad' but it is not at all good4 ,when ,,are ,,you going to be ,,good and send me a study of anything from nature--the coalscuttle or the dustpan--or a towel on a clothes screen--or the hearthrug on the back of a chair4 ,i'm very cruel1 but here's half a year ,i've been waiting for a bit of ,common sense--6 ,and ,i've nothing but rain and storm all day--,i never saw the place so dreadful1--but if you'll only paint me the coalscuttle or the towel it will be a solace4--,don't you think you ought to know when you do well or ill without asking me8--,i am very glad to hear of that instinct for greater things1 though4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,april #bjth1 #ahhd4 ,yes1 ,i am really very sorry about the sore throat4 ,you had better take it fairly in hand at once1 lie by1 and foment and otherwise get yourself to rights at once4 ,you can't work while you are ill like this4 ,but this cloud lady is very lovely1 and you really ,,must draw her again for me without any clothes1 because you've suggested a perfect coalheaver's leg1 which ,i can't think you meant6 and you must draw your figures now undraped for a while--,nobody wants anatomy1--but you can't get on without ,form4 ,i'll send her back to have her gown taken off as soon as you're able to work again1 meantime ,i've sent you two photographs from ,francesca#cf--only don't show them about1 because ,i want them not to be seen till my text is ready4 ,again on ,may #ast1 he writes3-- ,indeed the drawing is lovely1 beyond all thanks or believableness or conceivableness and gives me boundless pleasure1 and all sorts of hope of a wonderful future for you4 ,but it is of no use to ask me how things are to stand out4 ,you never had any trouble in making them do so when you had power of colour enough--but you can't make these tender lines stand out1 unless you finished the whole in that key1 and that ought only to be done of the real size4 ,what you ,,absolutely need is a quantity of practice from things as they are--and hitherto you have ,,absolutely refused ever to draw any of them so4 ,on ,july #fth1 referring to an illustration she is engaged on for ,marigold ,garden1 he adds instruction to praise3 ,you're a good girl to draw that leaf4 ,the four princesses in green tower#cg will be delightful but the first thing you have to do in this leafy world is to learn to paint a leaf green1 of its full size1 at one blow1 as a fresco painter does it on a background1 with the loaded brush opening by pressure to the leaf's full breadth and closing to its point4 ,again on the #ith3-- ,i knew you could do it1 if you only would4 ,that's been what's making me so what you call angry lately4 ,this is as good as well can be4 ,only1 remember brown is only to be used for actual earth1 and where plants grow close to it or for brown dark leaves etc41 not as shadow4 ,and there's already more delineation than ,i at present want you to spend time in4 ,and on the #beth he continues his instruction3-- ,the ivy is very beautiful and you have taken no end of useful trouble with it1 but the colour is vapid and the leaves too shiny4 ,shine is always vulgar except on hair and water--it spoils leaves as much as it does flesh--and even jewels are better without it4 ,i shall return you this study which you will find very useful and ,i've sent you two more sods to-day1 more to be enjoyed than painted--if you like to do a bit of one1 well and good4 ,i am glad to hear of the oil work--but it is winter work not summer4 ,i can't think how you can bear to spoil summer air with it4 ,on ,october #ah1 he says3-- ,you must like ,turner as soon as you see landscape completely4 ,his affectations--or prejudices1 ,i do not wish or expect you to like--any more than ,i should have expected him to like roses drawn like truffles4 ,then he finds that he has been expecting too much1 counting on physical powers with which ,kate has not been endowed4 ,i have not enough allowed for your being nearsighted but shall like to see what you do see4 ,at any rate near or far off1 study of the relation of moss#ch is indispensable4 ,those hot colours of flowers are very lovely--you can do as many as you like--only not dull things mixed with ,naples yellow4 ,look well at the foot of ,correggio's ,venus1 and at the weeds in ,mantegna's foreground4 ,for the same reason ,ruskin has more #8sods' cut and packed off to her to paint4 ,not to tease you--but they'll go on growing and being pleasant companions4 ,as regards colour1 no one of course sees it quite rightly4 ,we have all our flaws and prejudices of sight1 only1 be convinced there is a ,,right1 mathematically commensurable with nature1 and you will soon get to care for no #8opinions1' but feel that you have become daily more true4 ,so she promptly sets to work to paint one of the sods1 and he is so delighted that he flashes off a telegram-- ,the sod is quite lovely1 the best bit of groundwork ,i ever got done1 so many thanks1 but don't tire yourself so again4 ,on great occasions1 he gives her unqualified praise1 which unqualified praise it may be noted not infrequently coincides with an improved condition in his health4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway #aath4 ,feb41 #hd4 ,i did not answer your question which of the girlies ,i liked best because it was unanswerable1 yet something is to be said anent it4 ,of course the ,queen of them all is the little one in front--but she's just a month or six weeks too young for me4 ,then there's the staff bearer on the right 7--the left1 as they come7 turning round666--but she's just three days and a minute or two too old for me4 ,then there's the divine one with the dark hair1 and the beatific one with the brown1--but ,i think they've both got lovers already and have only come to please the rest1 and wouldn't be mine if ,i prayed them ever so4 ,then there is the little led beauty who is ruby and diamond in one1--but--but1--not quite tall enough1 again--,i think the wisest choice will be the pale one between the beatific and the divine6 ,but they're all ineffable6--,i think you never did a more marvellous piece of beauty and it's a treasure to me like a caught dream4 ,i wonder how you can bear to think of drawing me--and how you mean to do it6 ,sitting always tires me a good deal1 but perhaps ,john will let me lie down in his room for a quarter of an hour before tea4 ,of this portrait he writes later in an undated letter of the same year3-- ,i was with some saucy girls yesterday and ,i was saying how proud ,i was to have my portrait drawn by you--but only ,i had been so sleepy6 ,if the portrait was ever done1 there is now no trace of it4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #bjth1 ,july #ahhd 7an entirely cloudless morning and ,i wonderfully well74 ,i am more cheered and helped by your success in this drawing than by anything that has happened to me for years2--it is what ,i have been praying and preaching to everybody and never could get done6 ,i was nearly certain the power was in you1 but never thought it would come out at a single true effort6 --,the idea of your not seeing chiaroscuro6--the ins and outs of these leaves are the most rightly intricate and deep ,i ever saw--and the fern drawing at the one stroke is marvellous4 ,it's a short post this morning and ,i've a lot to get ready for it--but ,i've such lovely plans in my head for all you say in your last two letters--,and ,i'll forgive you the pig6--but we must draw dogs a little better4 ,and we must learn just the rudiments of perspective--and draw feet and ankles1--and1--a little above1--and purple and blue things--and--the ,sun not like a drop of sealing wax1--and then--,well1--we'll do all that first1 won't we8 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,july #bbnd1 #ahhd4 ,the little hippopotamus with the curly tail is lovely1 and the explosive sun promises a lovely day1 and it is so very joyful news to me that you like doing trees and see them all leaves and are going to do feet and ankles and be so good4 ,there's no saying what wonderful things you may do1 all in an instant1 when once you've fought your way through the strait gate4 ,and you will have the joy of delighting many more people beside me2 and of doing more good than any ,english artist ever yet did4 ,and ,i'll put you in some of my books soon1 as well as ,miss ,a4 and very thankfully4 ,but you must have a few more sods1 you know4 ,one of the #8lovely plans' he has in his head is #8a book on botany for you and me to do together--you do the plates and ,i the text--a hand-book of field botany4 ,it will be such a rest for you and such a help for--everybody6--chiefly me4' ,but it comes to nothing1 for he finds that some one has taken the wind out of their sails and writes on ,easter ,day of the following year3-- ,something less strong than the ,lamp-post4 ,but ,i am ever so much more strong4444 ,but oh1 we're both cut out with our flower book--,here's a perfect primrose of a clergyman brought out such a book of flowers6 beats us all to sticks--buds and roots4 ,i've got to write to him instantly and it's short post4 ,another plan is to paint with her #8some things at ,brantwood like ,luca and the ,old ,masters--and cut out those dab and dash people4 ,i felt when ,i came out of the ,academy as if my coat must be all over splashes4' ,illustration3 ,,many ,,happy ,,returns ,,of ,,the ,,day4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn4 ,if the ,academy did not please1 the ,grosvenor of that year had no better fortune1 for on ,may #c he writes3-- ,i was so curious to see those ,grosvenor pictures that ,i went in with ,joan yesterday and got a glimpse4--,the only picture there worth looking at is ,millais' ,lorne1#ci and his straddling girl is a fright1#dj and his ,lady ,campbell#da a horror4--,as for that somebody in the sea1#db what did ,i tell you about model drawing8--,people are getting absolutely brutified by it4 ,there's another nearly as bad in the ,suffolk ,st4#dc ,in the great medival times1 painters could draw people dressed or undressed just as they chose--without the smallest weakness1 shame1 or conceit4 ,now1 there is scarcely a foolish or bad feeling in one's head or body1 that isn't made worse in the model-room4 ,i scratched nearly every picture through in my catalogue yesterday4 ,another plan was that they should both set to work to paint #8a purple kingfisher4' ,couldn't you go to ,mr4 ,fletcher and ask him to introduce you to ,dr4 ,gunther1 and ask ,dr4 ,gunther to show you an ,abyssinian kingfisher1 and give you any one you like to draw out in a good light8 ,sometimes ,ruskin is betrayed into writing about himself4 ,for example on ,march #bjth1 from ,brantwood1 when for the time being not only all the world seems wrong but in ,professor ,clifford's poignant words even #8,the ,great ,companion' seems dead3 ,i didn't tell you if ,i was well--,i'm not3 nor have ,i been for some time1--a very steady gloom on me2 not stomach depression but the sadness of deliberately preparing for the close of life--drawing in1 or giving up1 all one's plans--thinking of one's beloved places1 ,i shall never be there again--and so on4 ,a great deal of the time ,i have lost in the mere friction of life--scarcely any sense of ,peace1--,and no hope of any life to come4 ,i forget it all more in the theatre than anywhere--cathedrals are no good any more6 ,mind you go and see ,claudian6#dd ,and on ,dec4 #ast1 from ,oxford3-- ,i've been in a hard battle here these eight weeks1--the atheistic scientists all against me1 and the young men careless and everything going wrong--so that ,i have had to fight with sadness and anger in all my work4 ,my last lecture is to be given to-morrow but ,i have been feeling more tired in this cold weather1 and the correspondence is terrible4 ,i have never a moment to draw or do anything ,i like--except throw myself on my bed and rest1 or listen to any good music if ,i can get it quietly4 ,from among his more general and less didactic epistles three may be given as examples4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #bc ,jan4 _/#hd4 444 ,you must try to like the ,alexanders--for they are ,heaven's own doing--as much as ,heaven ever allows to be seen of it4 ,i ought to be #8good' about everything1 for good people love me1--and have loved4 ,here is the strangest thing has come to me to-day4 ,l----#de was--,i have told you have not ,i--a saint in her way1--and was constant in the habit of prayer4 ,one evening--,i may have told you this before1 but it is better to have it in writing1--being out at a friend's house where there were a good many people--more or less known to her and to each other--one coming in told suddenly that ,l---- #8s chief girl friend 7she knew before of her illness7 was at the point of death4 ,there was a clergyman at the party and ,l---- asked him to pray for her friend--but he was taken aback being among all the young people1 said he could not4--#8,then'--said ,l----1 7only #ah at that time7 #8,i must4'--,she made the whole company kneel down--and prayed so that they could not but join with her4 ,and the girl was saved4 ,afterwards ,i used to see her1 often enough4 ,she married1 to ,l---- #8s great delight--a ,highland religious squire--and she with her husband came to see me here1 with their two children1 boy and girl1--three years ago4 ,since then the children have remembered me1 and sent me a card1 for themselves at ,christmas1 this last year1 to which ,i returned a letter of thanks addressed to ,d---- and ,f----4 ,my letter found little ,f---- on her death-bed4 ,her ,father writes to me--yesterday1 #8,i think you will be pleased to know that your letter addressed to ,d---- and ,f---- gave my darling in her pain a bright smile4'--,and he encloses to me an envelope which ,f---- had addressed to me in return4 ,but the letter--never1 and yet--she has written one she knew not4 ,for the envelope is written in ,l---- #8s hand6 ,i could not tell the difference except in the letter ,j4 of the beginning4 ,is not this a pretty little story8 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,march #crd1 #ahhd4 ,no wonder ,i couldn't understand about the letters--here's one enclosed which ought to have been at ,witley almost in time to receive you and has lain in my unanswered letter heap till an hour ago6 ,i'm so delighted about your beginning to like purple and blue flowers1 though it's only for my sake4 ,not that ,i'm not proud of being able to make you like things6444 ,i think flowers in my order of liking would come nearly like this1 ,wild rose ,alpine rose ,alpine gentian ,white ,lily ,purple ,flag ,purple convolvulus ,carnation--all the tribe ,pansy1 all the tribe ,thistle--all the tribe ,daisy and ,hyacinth ,snowdrop and ,crocus ,i only put the last so low because they have such an unfair advantage over all the rest in coming first1--and of course ,i've some out of the way pets like the oxalis and anagallis but then they have an unfair advantage in always growing in pretty places4 ,the wood anemone should go with the daisy1 and the #8,blossoms' apple and almond--hawthorn and cherry1 have of course a separate queendom4 ,i must really go and look for that lovely girl you gave me with basket of pansies6 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,march #bbnd1 #ahhd4 ,what a nice letter--and ,i'm so pleased that your ,father was surprised1 and that ,johnnie liked #8,unto ,this ,last'--and that you think you'll like some more4 ,i think ,i tired myself with trying to draw your little girlie yesterday--she's so hard1 and ,i'm as lazy to-day as ever ,i can be1 and don't care for anything but a ,french ,novel1 about police6 ,and ,i'm ashamed to read it at #c in the afternoon--and it's wet--and ,i can't do ,st4 ,george's accounts--and ,i should like some tea and muffins--and--there are no muffins in ,coniston4444 ,i feel so listless because there's no time left now to do anything4 ,oh dear1 think how happy you are with all that power of drawing--and ages to come to work in and paint ,floras and ,norahs and ,fairies and ,mary's and ,goddesses and--bodices--oh me1 when will you do me one without any8 ,i must take to my ,french novel1 there's no help for it--,mercy on us1 and it's two hours to tea-time6 and the room so quiet1 and all my books and things about me--and ,i can't do a thing-- ,wouldn't you like a photograph of me like that8 ,no doubt1 it is difficult to help feeling at times that ,ruskin's admiration for ,k4 ,g4 partakes too much of hyperbole4 ,and yet we cannot but confess that as he was honest in welcoming the ,pre-,raphaelites so was he honest in his greeting of her4 ,he was weary of the artificial pedantry of those who had elaborated an artistic code #8with titles and sub-titles applicable to every form of art and tyrannous over every mode of sentiment1' and he acclaimed an exquisite small voice1 which sang its little song in its own sweet tone of purity and in its own tender unconventional way4 ,what he meant was in no wise that she was cleverer than other people4 ,he over and over again tells her one way or another that she was no great executant4 ,but she had that rarer gift of seeing old things through new eyes and giving artistic expression with curious and delightful success to these newer and fresher views4 ,and as ,ruskin was by nature vehement and by practice a controversialist1 he could scarcely resist being led from time to time into italicizing his words and emphasizing his verdicts4 ,illustration3 ,a ,,facsimile ,,of ,,the ,,original ,,four-,,page ,,child ,,story ,written and illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway for ,miss ,violet ,severn1 now in ,miss ,severn's possession4 ,illustration ,illustration ,illustration3 ,a ,,facsimile ,,of ,,the ,,original ,,four-,,page ,,child ,,story ,written and illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway for ,miss ,violet ,severn1 now in ,miss ,severn's possession4 ,in the meanwhile the warmest affection had ripened between ,mr4 ,ruskin's cousin and adopted daughter1 ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn1 and ,kate ,greenaway4 ,like most others1 ,kate had been fascinated by the charm1 goodness1 and ability of ,mrs4 ,severn2 and so enlisted her sympathy that when her friend fell ill1 ,kate opened her heart to her1 like a child3-- #aa ,,pemberton ,,gardens1 ,,holloway1 ,n41 ,wednesday #aj ,dec4 #ahhd4 ,dearest ,mrs4 ,severn1-- ,poor ,dear4 ,i'm so sorry4 ,i hope it will be as short in staying as it seems severe4 ,i'm so sorry4 ,i think ,i will put off coming till next week1 for then1 ,i hope1 ,i'll be stronger4 ,i am very unwell again to-day--so absurdly weak4 ,and you1 too1 would not be well enough to see me this week4 ,it is such hard work1 isn't it1 talking when you don't feel well4 ,not that ,i can or will say ,i felt that with regard to you1 you always seem so cheerful and comforting--that you'd do me good at any time4 ,poor ,dear4 ,but ,i will write again1 and ,i'll hope to see you quite recovered4 ,my mother is very ill1 too1 with a bad cold and cough4 ,good-bye4 ,how sweet of you to write to me at all1 feeling so ill4 ,i hope you're feeling better this morning4 ,with1 ,dearest1 lots of love1 ,your affectionate1 ,k4 ,g4 ,i'm very1 very1 very sorry4 ,poor ,dear4 ,a little later on when ,mrs4 ,severn's young sons were about to be sent to their first boarding school1 ,kate sent a characteristic note of sympathy3-- ,my dearest ,mrs4 ,severn-- 444 ,i wonder if ,i shall see you to-morrow at the ,r4 ,a4 ,i shall be there till nearly #d--;but ,i remember4 ,your boys are going to-morrow4 ,i hope you won't feel it dreadfully4 ,but ,i should think they will be happy there4 ,it is so much nicer than quite a strange school and strange people4 ,please feel they will be very happy4444 ,your very affectionate ,k4 ,g4 ,and for ,mrs4 ,severn's little daughter1 ,violet1 ,kate ,greenaway composed the doleful history of a naughty girl1 such as most delights the mind of a tiny child4 ,that characteristic booklet1 delightfully sketched in pencil and colour1 ,miss ,violet ,severn has kindly allowed to be reproduced here4 ,,chapter ,x #ahhe ,,and #ahhf ,,the ,,move ,,to ,,frognal--,,ruskin3 ,,letters ,,and ,,confidences1 ,,praise ,,and ,,blame1 ,,his ,,illness--,,mrs4 ,,allingham ,on ,monday1 ,february #afth1 #ahhe1 ,miss ,greenaway moved to ,frognal1 into the house designed for her by ,mr4 ,norman ,shaw1 her home until her death4 ,of her experiences as a house-builder she has left no record1 and ,mr4 ,norman ,shaw kept none of her letters4 ,as there were so few neighbouring houses at the time the architect suggested1 and as some number was necessary1 the adoption of #8#ej1' for it was unlikely that a higher number would eventually be reached4 ,when in due time the other plots were filled up1 ,miss ,greenaway's house became ,no4 #ci1 and to that it was altered4 ,this detail1 trivial as it is1 is mentioned1 as the reader might be misled into believing that ,miss ,greenaway had at some unspecified time changed her ,hampstead home4 ,the scheme did not commend itself to ,ruskin4 ,on the #ast of the previous ,october he had written from ,kenmure ,castle3-- ,i could not get your dainty letter until to-day4 ,the two sweeties in it are indeed beautiful1 and only need to be painted larger to become a most glorious picture4 ,i must stand over you while you paint them again with a big brush4 ,but ,i am aghast at the house at ,hampstead and quite resolved that you shan't live in ,london4 ,of course if you had stayed at ,scarborough you would have begun drawing the children at the shore1 and that was just what ,i wanted4--,but wait till ,i come and talk to you--,i'll make your life a burden to you if you live in ,london6 ,if you had come to ,norwood instead of ,hampstead1 there would have been some sense in it--,i've no patience with you4 ,and you must give up drawing round hats4 ,it's the hats that always save you from having to do a background--and ,i'm not going to be put off any more4 ,illustration3 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,home1 #ci1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead4 ,designed for ,kate ,greenaway by ,r4 ,norman ,shaw1 ,r4,a4 ,just prior to the move ,ruskin wrote3-- ,you're not going to call your house a ,villa68--,could you call it ,kate's ,state--or ,kitty's ,green--or ,katherine's ,nest1--or ,brownie's ,cell--or ,camomile ,court--or ,lassie's ,leisure--or the ,romp's ,rest--or--something of that sort8 ,and again3-- ,i will take real care about the addresses--but ,i really must have a pretty one for the ,new ,house--you don't suppose ,i'm going to write ,frognal every day of my life--,it might as well be ,dognal--,hognal--,lognal--,i won't4 ,if it is to be ,i'll have it printed666 ,but ,kate saved him the trouble1 for thenceforward she kept him supplied with sheaves of envelopes addressed to herself in her own handwriting4 ,the day before the actual flitting he took care to write a letter to welcome her in the new house4 ,,brantwood1 #ae ,february #ahhe4 ,i hope you are beginning by this time in the afternoon to be very happy in thinking you're really at home on the ,hill1 now1--and that you will find all the drawers slide nicely1 corners fit and firesides cosy1 and that the flowers are behaving prettily1 and the chimnies--draw--as well as you4--,that's a new pun1 all my own--only think6 ,it isn't a very complimentary one--but indeed--the first thing to be seriously thought of in a new house is chimnies1--one can knock windows out--or partitions down--build out oriels--and throw up turrets--but never make a chimney go that don't choose4 ,anyhow--,i am glad you are settled somewhere--and that ,i shan't have my letters to direct nobody knows where4--,and let us bid1 both1 farewell to hollow ways1 that lead only to disappointment--and know what we're about1--and not think truths teazing1 but enjoy each other's sympathy and admiration--and think always--how nice we are6 ,no sooner was she settled than she began to receive uninvited attentions4 ,on the #dth ,march she wrote to ,mrs4 ,severn3-- ,there was a horrid man drawing the outside of the house all day4 ,so ,i suppose he is cribbing ,mr4 ,shaw's design1 and going to put my house up somewhere else1 who knows where4 ,her friends were not all entirely satisfied with it4 ,on #beth ,march she wrote3-- ,my dearest ,mrs4 ,severn1-- ,mr4 ,locker came to see this new studio yesterday4 ,he said1 #8,what a frightful falling off from the old one4' ,isn't that sad8--but ,i fear true4 ,but she was pleased to think that although it was not so pretty as her last studio1 it was larger1 lighter1 and altogether more practical4 ,the household included ,kate's father and mother and her brother1 ,john ,greenaway4 ,mr4 ,greenaway was still practising as a wood-engraver1 with an office in the ,city2 ,mr4 ,john ,greenaway was the sub-editor of the ,journal of the ,chemical ,society1 a post he holds at the present time2 while ,mrs4 ,greenaway managed the domestic affairs4 ,of the routine of ,miss ,greenaway's life at this time ,mr4 ,john ,greenaway writes3-- ,of my sister at work1 we saw very little4 ,she very wisely made it a fixed rule that1 during working hours1 no one should come into the studio save on matters of urgency4 ,her great working time was the morning1 so she was always an early riser and finished breakfast by eight o'clock4 ,her most important work was done between then and luncheon time 7#a o'clock74 ,practically she never went out in the morning4 ,after luncheon she usually worked for an hour or two1 unless she was going out anywhere for the afternoon2 and then went for a walk on the ,heath1 and came back to tea4 ,the evenings up to eight o'clock1 when we had a meal that was a sort of compromise between dinner and supper1 were spent in letter-writing1 making dresses for models1 occasionally working out schemes and rough sketches for projected books and such-like things2 but all finished work was done in the morning or afternoon4 ,in the summer too1 a good deal of this time was spent in the garden seeing to her flowers4 ,after supper she generally lay on a sofa and read until she went to bed at about #aj o'clock4 ,she could not stand late hours and seldom went out in the evening4 ,for the same reason she very seldom dined out4 ,tea-time was always her time for going out to see friends1 or for them to see her4 ,illustration3 ,,tea-,,room ,,leading ,,out ,,from ,,the ,,studio1 #ci1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead4 ,the change of abode was a great success2 but in ,miss ,greenaway's correspondence we have at this period frequent references to domestic worries and minor troubles4 ,for instance1 she writes to ,miss ,evans3-- ,it is quite tragic about all your servants going4 ,have you got a cook yet8 ,you get a better chance of hearing something about them before you engage them than we do4 ,i almost ,,hate ours6 ,they pretended they could do such a lot4 ,you would have thought that one was used to distinguished beings the way she went on4 ,we felt quite vulgar4 ,she spoke of the puddings as sweets and when ,i tried to convey to her mind that in our house they were called puddings she said1 #8,ah6 ,i see6 you prefer comfort to style6' which is quite true1 ,i do--only ,i don't get it at her hands1 and as for style6--unless it consists in a nice coating of dirt over everything1 ,i don't know where that is either4 ,i hope your fate won't be such4 ,the work of #ahhe has been described in the last chapter4 ,it only remains to complete the year's record by extracts from ,ruskin's letters1 which in consequence of another severe illness break off abruptly on ,may the #bbnd4 ,he had now retired into seclusion at ,brantwood1 where he was as happy as failing health would permit in the company of ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn1 the #8,joan' of the letters1 and her husband and family who lived with him4 ,now it was that he set to work on that remarkable fragment of autobiography published at intervals under the title of ,prterita1 to which allusion has already been made2 and he speaks of it in the following extracts from letters of this period3-- ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #dth1 ,jan4 7#ahhe74 ,it was nice hearing of your being made such a grand ,lioness of1 at the tea--and of people's praising me to you because they had found out you liked it--and of ,lady ,airlie and old times4 444 ,i've begun my autobiography--it will be so dull61 and so meek66--you never did6 ,i write a little bit every morning and am going to label old things it refers to--little drawings and printings and the like4 ,i'm not going to talk of anybody more disagreeable than myself--so there will be nothing for people to snap and growl at4 ,what shall ,i say about people who ,i think liked me8 that they were very foolish8 ,i got a dainty little letter from my fifteener to-day1 and have felt a little better ever since4 ,she's at the seaside and says there's nothing on the shore--,i've told her to look--and that ,i should like to write the #8,natural ,history of a dull ,beach4' ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #gth1 ,jan4 #ahhe4 ,the auto won't be a pretty book at all1 but merely an account of the business and general meaning of my life4 ,as ,i work at it every morning1 7about half an hour only7 ,i have very bitter feelings about the waste of years and years in merely looking at things--all ,i've got to say is--,i went there--and saw--that4 ,but did nothing4 ,if only ,i had gone on drawing plants--or clouds--or--4 ,he is still full of interest in her work1 unsparing of criticism and reproof where he considers them needful4 ,on ,jan4 #bnd3 ,you are always straining after a fancy instead of doing the thing as it is4 ,never mind its being pretty or ugly1 but get as much as you can of the facts in a few minutes and you will find strength and ease and new fancy and new right coming all together4 ,on ,jan4 #bith3-- ,i think the reason ,miss ,a4#df puzzles you is that you never make quite a sincere study1 you are always making a pretence of striving for an ideal4 ,i want you to learn nature perfectly--then ,miss ,a4 will not puzzle you--though you will do quite different things4 ,i am so glad you like ,holbein4 ,and on ,jan4 #dth3-- ,i'm very glad you want to paint like ,gainsborough4 ,but you must not try for it--,he is inimitable1 and yet a bad master4 ,keep steadily to deep colour and ,carpaccio--with white porcelain and ,luca--,you may try a ,gainsborough every now and then for play4 ,but he can also be unstinting of praise4 ,on ,feb4 #hth3-- ,this is quite the most beautiful and delightful drawing you've ever given me1 and ,i accept it with the more joy that it shows me all your powers are in the utmost fineness and fulness1 and that you are steadily gaining in all that is best--and indeed will do many things--heaven sparing you and keeping your heart in peace1--more than have ever yet been seen in all human dreams4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,studio1 #ci1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead4 ,on ,april #gth3-- ,ah6 just wait till you see6 ,i'm quite crushed6--,never knew such pink and blue could be found in ,boxes--and not a touch of camomile anywhere6 and not a single leaf in an attitude6 ,well--those anemones are a thing to tell of6 ,what a heavenly place ,london might be--if there was nobody in it4 ,yes1 you ,,shall draw the tulip this time--if there's a bit of possible tulip in you4 ,i have my doubts6 ,and on ,may #ast3-- ,i never was so much pleased with any drawing yet as with this1 for it is complete in idea1 and might become a consummate picture1 with very little effort more1 nor were ever faces more lovely than those of the central girl and the one on her right hand4 ,you must paint me this some day--in ,mays to come1 when you're doing all sorts of lovely things at ,brantwood1 and the books give you no more trouble and yet bring you in showers of gold like the celandines4 ,and ,i'll try not to tease4 ,it's too sweet of you doing this lovely thing for me4 ,and--what pleases me best of all's the beauty of the rhyme4 ,it is higher in rhythmic power and quality than anything ,i've read of yours1 and is in the entirely best style of poetry4--,i believe the half of your power is not shown yet4 ,you have given me a very happy ,may-day4 ,suddenly we get a glimpse of his tender feeling for1 and pretty sympathy with1 her beloved flower3-- ,oxalis out everywhere--wanting to be drawn4 ,they say they'd like to feel how it feels1 for they never were drawn in their lives4 ,for a moment he returns1 on ,july #crd1 to the old subject of drawing from the nude and incidentally shows that he looks upon her as an exception to what he considers should be the general rule3-- ,what you have first to do is to learn to draw ankles and feet because you are one of the instances the enemy have of the necessity of the nude4 ,the moment you have any leisure for study--feet--feet--and arms4 ,no more shoes1 come what will of it4--,to the seashore--as soon as may be--,until you come to ,brant i4e4 ,brantwood4 ,and every now and again ,ruskin shows his unabated enthusiasm for new knowledge and his gusto for new studies3-- 444 ,please ask ,johnnie what colour frozen hydrogen is1 and if transparent or opaque4 ,the rascally chemistry book gives me six pages of bad drawings of machines1--and supplies me with a picture--to aid my imagination--of a man in badly made breeches turning a wheel6--but does not tell me whether even liquid hydrogen is transparent or not1--they only say it is #8steel-blue4' ,on ,july #bf3-- ,this has been a very bright day to me1 not least in the thoughts of this--but in other ways very fortunate and helpful1--,i've found out why clouds float1 for one thing666--and think what a big thing that is6 ,in reply to ,kate's request for information on the cloud discovery he writes on ,july #bhth3-- ,clouds float because the particles of water in them get warmed by the sun1 and warm the air in the little holes between them--then that air expands and carries them up4 ,when they cool it comes down and then they stick together and come down altogether4 ,but ,miss ,greenaway was not yet satisfied1 so to appease her curiosity he makes further answer on ,july #bith3-- ,clouds are warmer or colder according to the general temperature of the air--but always enable the sun to warm the air within them1 in the fine weather when they float high4 ,i have yet to learn all about the wet weather on this new condition myself4 ,the following letters of the year speak for themselves3-- ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #ae ,jan4 #he4 ,you say in one of--four6--unanswered letters1 you wonder how far ,i see you as you see yourself8 ,no one sees us as we see ourselves--all that first concerns us must be the care that we do see ourselves as far as possible rightly4 ,in general1 young people 7and children1 like you7 know very little of themselves2 yet something that nobody else can know4 ,my knowledge of people is extremely limited1 continually mistaken--and what is founded on experience1 chiefly of young girls1--and this is nearly useless in your case1 for you are mixed child and woman1--and therefore extremely puzzling to me4 ,but ,i think you may safely conclude that--putting aside the artistic power which is unique in its way1 the rest of you will probably be seen more truly by an old man of #fe1 which is about my age1 than by yourself--at almost any age you ever come to4 ,i note with sorrow that the weather bothers you4 ,so it does me--but when the pretty times come1 you can enjoy them1 ,i can't4 ,though ,i do a little like to see snow against blue sky still--to-day there's plenty of both4444 ,you and your publishers are both and all geese4--,you put as much work into that ,language of ,flowers as would have served three years bookmaking if you had only drawn boldly1 coloured truly1 and given #f for #fj pages4 ,the public will always pay a shilling for a penny's worth of what it likes1--it won't pay a penny for a pound's worth of camomile tea4 ,you draw--let me colour next time6 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #ai ,jan4 #he4 ,the book ,i send to-day is of course much more completed in shade than your outlines ever need1 or ought to be1 but ,i believe you would find extreme benefit in getting into the habit of studying from nature with the pen point in this manner and forcing yourself to complete the study of a head1 cap1 hair and all--whether it succeeded or not to your mind1 in the time you now give to draw the profile of lips and chin4 ,you never need fear losing refinement1--you would gain steadily in fancy1 knowledge and power of expression of solid form1 and complex character4 ,note especially in these drawings that their expressional power depends on the rightness1 not the delicacy of their lines1 and is itself most subtle where they are most forcible4 ,in the recording angels1 pages #bb1 #bc1 the face of #bc is beautiful because its lines are distinct--#bb fails wholly because the faint proof of the plate has dimmed them4 ,tell me what the publishers #8propose' now1 that ,i may sympathise in your indignation--and #8propose' something very different4 ,i can scarcely conceive any sale paying the expenses of such a book as the ,language of ,flowers--but think you could produce one easily with the original outlay of--say at the outsidest1 #ejj1 which you would sell #ej1jjj of at a shilling each in a month4 ,tell me how you like this little head and tail piece herewith4 ,i'm going to use them for a little separate pamphlet on schools4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway past two ,p4,m4 #ac ,feb4 #he4 ,,brantwood4 ,am ,i busy8 ,well--you shall just hear what ,i've done to-day4 #g past1 ,coffee4 ,read ,northcote's conversations marking extracts for lecture4 #g-h4 ,dress4 #h past1 ,write two pages of autobiography4 past #h #i4 ,lesson to ,jane ,anne on spelling and aspiration4 ,advise her to get out of the habit of spelling at1 hat4 #i-;half past4 ,correct press of chapter of ,modern ,painters4 #i #aj4 ,breakfast--read letters--devise answers to smash a bookseller1 and please an evangelical clergyman--also to make ,kate understand what ,i'm about and put ,joan's mind at ease4444 ,wished ,i had been at the ,circus4 ,tried to fancy ,clemmie #8all eyes4' ,thought a little mouth and neck might be as well besides4 ,pulled grape hyacinth out of box1 and put it in water4 ,why isn't it blue8 #aj4 ,set to work again4 ,finished revise of ,m4 ,p4 chapter4 ,then took up ,miss ,alex4 next number4 ,fitted pages etc4 ,wrote to ,miss ,a4 to advise her of proof coming4 ,wrote to ,clergyman and ,joan and smashed bookseller4 #ab4 ,examined chess game by correspondence4 ,sent enemy a move4 ,don't think she's much chance left4 #a4 ,looked out some crystals1 #8,irish ,diamonds' for school at ,cork4 ,meditated on enclosed mistress' and pupils' letters--still to be answered before resting--,query1 how8 past one4 ,lunch4 ,peasoup4 to two4 ,meditate letter to ,colonel ,brackenbury on the ,bride of ,abydos4 ,meditate what's to be said to ,k4 #b4 ,baxter comes in--receives directions for manifold parcels and ,irish diamonds--think ,i may as well write this1 thus4 ,wild rainy day4 ,wrote ,col4 ,brackenbury while your ink was drying to turn leaves--now for ,irish ,governess1--and my mineralogist--and that's all6 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,whit-,,black ,,monday1 #he ,may #bf1 ,,london4 ,i was down to very low tide to-day1 and am still1 but partly rested1 still my head not serving me1--the driving about town continually tires me fearfully1--then ,i get vexed to be tired--then ,i can't eat because ,i'm vexed--then ,i can't sleep and so it goes on4 ,i've been thinking rather sorrowfully over the ,marigold ,garden1 which is no garden1 but a mystification--the rather that ,i saw a real marigold garden at ,mr4 ,hooper's the wood engraver's on ,thursday and was amazed4 ,and ,i mourn over your not showing me things till it's too late to do anything less1 or more4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,cherry ,,woman4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 ,i'm at the saddest part of my autobiography--and think extremely little of myself--then and now--,i was sulky and quarrelled with all life--just because ,i couldn't get the one thing ,i chose to fancy4--,now--,i can get nothing ,i fancy--all the world ebbing away1 and the only question for me now--,what next8 ,if you could only change souls with me for five minutes6--,what a wise ,kate you would be1 when you got your own fanciful one back again4 ,the melancholy tone of the last letter was a pathetic prelude to the very serious illness of this year1 of which we find in her laconic diary the following unusually concise entries3-- ,july #ca4 ,he is much worse to-day4 ,aug4 #aa4 ,still as ill4 0 #ac4 ,no change yet1 still so quiet4 0 #ad4 ,slightly better4 0 #ae4 ,still better4 0 #ai4 ,still better and downstairs4 0 #bd4 ,still getting better but so slowly4 0 #be4 ,still better4 0 #bf4 ,first drive4 0 #bh4 ,out in garden alone4 ,by ,january of the next year 7#ahhf7 ,mr4 ,ruskin had sufficiently recovered to resume work on his autobiography and wrote on the #bbnd3-- ,i am so very thankful you like this eighth number so much1 for ,i was afraid it would begin to shock people4 ,i have great pleasure in the thing myself--it is so much easier and simpler to say things face to face like that1 than as an author4 ,the ninth has come out very prettily1 ,i think-- ,again on the #bgth3-- ,i am so very very glad you like ,prterita--for it is--as you say--the #8natural' me--only of course peeled carefully--,it is different from what else ,i write because--you know--,i seldom have had to describe any but heroic--or evil--characters--and this water-cress character is so much easier to do--and credible and tasteable by everybody's own lips4 ,and on ,feb4 #bcrd3-- ,it is lovely of you thinking of illustrating the life--,i am greatly set up in the thought of it4 ,but wait a while4 ,i hope it will be all more or less graceful4 ,but ,i fear it will not be cheerful enough4 ,i'll try and keep it as ,katish as--the very truth can be4 ,clotilde is still living1 7,i believe7--,baronne ,du ,quesne1--a managing chtelaine in mid-,france4 ,on ,march #cj he is still insistent with criticism3-- ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,i can only answer to-day the important question about the green lady--#8,you mean she doesn't stand right8' --,my dear1 ,i mean much worse than that4 ,i mean there's nothing of her to stand with6 ,she has no waist--no thighs--no legs--no feet4--,there's nothing under the dress at all4444 ,you recollect ,i hope that when you were here1 ,i told you you had never drawn a bit of drapery in your life4 ,when you are inclined to try to do so--go and copy as well as you can a bit of ,st4 ,jerome's in the ,nat4 ,gall4--and copy a bit of photograph--if you are ashamed to paint in the gallery1 and send it me4 ,i gave you a task to do at the same time--which you never did--but went and gathered my best cherries instead--which ,i wanted for my own eating--and expected me to be pleased with your trying to paint them6 ,but soon she is made happier by unqualified praise3-- ,you never did anything more lovely than the little flowers to the poem--and the poem itself is most lovely in its outflow from the heart4 ,i am very thankful to have set the heart free again--and ,i hope that your great genius will soon have joy in its own power4 ,this year ,ruskin was occupying much of his leisure by working on drawings which he had made in early life4 ,beginning by sending them to ,k4 ,g4 for criticism1 he ended by insisting on her keeping for herself one out of every ten1 finding much amusement in guessing which would be her choice week by week4 ,the whole thing was a pretty contest in generosity between the great critic and his devoted admirer4 ,on ,may #ba he writes3-- ,if you only knew the delight it is to me to send either you or ,johnnie anything that you like6 ,but--not to worry you with the thought of their coming out of my drawers1 ,i shall send ,johnnie some only to look at and send back at leisure4-- ,you're a nice ,katie--you--to talk of generosity--after giving me about #bjjj worth of drawings as if they were leaves off the trees4 ,and on ,june #h3-- ,you cannot think what a real comfort and help it is to me that you see anything in my drawings4 ,they are all such mere hints of what ,i want to do1 or syllables of what ,i saw1 that ,i never think--or at least never thought1 they could give the least pleasure to any one but myself--and that you--especially who draw so clearly1 should understand the confused scratches of them is very wonderful and joyful to me4 ,i had fixed on the road through the water for you1 out of that lot in my own mind2--it is like you1 and it's so nice that you found it out1--and that you like the hazy castle of ,annecy too4 ,but it shall be ,abingdon this time--,it will be very amusing to me to see which you like1 out of each ten2 but ,i think ,i shall know now pretty well4 ,ruskin is still full of schemes of collaboration which1 in his opinion1 will draw out her best powers so that her gifts may be made more useful to others4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #bg ,april #hf4 ,it has been a perfect and thrice lovely ,april morning--absolutely calm1 with dew on fields1 and the wood anemones full out everywhere3 and now coming in1 before breakfast1 ,i get your delicious letter about ,beauty and the ,beast1--,i am so very thankful that you like it so--and you will do it4 ,for ,i want intensely to bring one out for you--your book--,i your publisher1 charging you printing and paper only4 ,hitherto ,i'm sure your father and ,johnnie must think ,i've been simply swindling you out of your best drawings and--a good deal more4 ,but now ,i want you to choose me the purest old form of the story--to do--such illustrations as you feel like doing4--,pencil sketch put in at ease4 ,then--separately1 a quite severe ink line--cheaply and without error cuttable--with no bother to either of us1--and so much plain shade as you like4 ,to be published without colour1 octavo1 but with design for a grand hand-coloured quarto edition afterwards4 ,i'll write a preface--and perhaps with your help1 venture on an additional incident or two8 ,yesterday was lovely too--and ,i couldn't sit down to my letters--nor get the book sent4 ,it is about ,sir ,philip ,sidney and an older friend of his at ,vienna--mostly in letters4#dg ,read only what you like--there's lots of entirely useless politics which shouldn't have been printed4 ,but you will find things in it--and it is of all things good for you to be brought into living company of these good people of old days4444 ,and again on ,may #gth3-- ,i wonder if you could put in writing about any particular face--what it is that makes it pretty8 ,what curl of mouth1 what lifting of eyelid1 and the like--and what part of it you do first4 ,i think a new stimulus might be given to drawing in general by teaching some simple principles to girls about drawing each other's faces4 ,then there is a recurrence of his illness and a three months' cessation of letters4 ,in his rambling talk he is heard to say1 #8,the only person ,i am sorry to disappoint is poor ,miss ,greenaway4' ,now again we find pathetic little notes in her diary3-- ,july #e4 ,heard this morning he is ill4 ,had a letter from him4 ,july #f4 ,not quite so ill to-day4 ,july #aj4 ,still ill4 ,july #ad4 ,a little better now4 ,by ,september he is at the seaside and again able to use his pen1 although too weary and depressed even to make use of that #8,natural ,history of a dull ,beach' which he carried in his mind but which was destined never to be written4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,sunday ,sep4 #ai1 #ahhf4 ,i'm sending two miles that you may get your--this--whatever you call it--it isn't a letter--and ,i dare say you won't get it4 ,i haven't got yours--they won't give anything to anybody on ,sunday6--and ,i'm sure yours is a beauty--in the post office over the hill there1 and ,i can't get it and ,i've nothing to do and ,i can't think of anything to think of1--and the sea has no waves in it--and the sand has no shells in it--and the shells--oystershells--at lunch had no oysters in them bigger than that a rough drawing of a small oyster in a shell--and that wouldn't come out6 ,and the wind's whistling through the keyhole--and ,i ought to go out--and don't want to--and here's ,baxter coming to say ,i must1 and to take #8this' to ,morecambe4 ,much good may it do you4 ,soon however he is full of a new plan and once more anxious for her co-operation3-- ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 ,saturday ,nov4 #b1 #ahhf4 ,it rejoices me so that you enjoy those old master drawings4 ,it comes1 in the very moment when ,i wanted it--this ,british ,m4 enthusiasm of yours4 ,i'm going to set up a girls' drawing school in ,london--a room where nice young girls can go--and find no disagreeable people or ugly pictures4 ,they must all be introduced by some of my own sweetest friends--by ,k4 ,g41 by ,lilias ,t4#dh by ,margaret ,b4 ,j4#di--;by my own sec4 ,sally#ej--or by such as ever and anon may be enrolled as ,honorary ,students4 ,and ,i want you at once to choose1 and buy for me beginning with enclosed cheque1 all the drawings by the old masters reproduced to your good pleasure--,whatever you like1 ,i shall--and the school will be far happier and more confident in your choice ratified by mine4 ,and ,i will talk over every bit of the plan with you--as you have time to think of it4 --,i'm not quite sure ,i shall like this ,american book as well as ,bret ,harte--but am thankful for anything to make me laugh1--if it does4 ,this year 7#ahhf71 besides the ,almanack of which #de1jjj copies were issued1 the ,american sales doubling those of ,england1 and a large number of designs for ,christmas ,cards1 ,a ,apple ,pie1 published by ,george ,routledge ,sons1 had a gratifying success4 ,england took #g1jjj copies1 ,america #c1ejj1 and ,france #c1jjj4 ,but it did not by any means meet with ,ruskin's approval1 and on ,nov4 #i he writes from ,brantwood3-- ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,i am considerably vexed about ,apple ,pie4 ,i really think you ought seriously to consult me before determining on the lettering of things so important-- ,the titles are simply bill-sticking of the vulgarest sort1 over the drawings--nor is there one of those that has the least melodious charm as a colour design--while the feet--from merely shapeless are becoming literal paddles and flappers--and in the pretty--though ungrammatical--#8,eat it' are real deformities4 ,all your faults are gaining on you every hour that you don't fight them-- ,i have a plan in my head for organising a girls' ,academy under you6 7a fine mistress you'll make--truly--7 ,lilias ,trotter and ,miss ,alexander for the ,dons1 or ,donnas of it--and with every book and engraving that ,i can buy for it--of noble types--with as much of cast-drawing1 and coin#ea--;as you can use1--and two or three general laws of mine to live under6 and spending my last breath in trying to get some good into you6 ,the next letter refers to an advance copy of ,the ,queen of the ,pirate ,isle1 by ,bret ,harte1 ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway1 with many charming coloured engravings1 yet in our opinion certainly not deserving his estimate of it as #8the best thing she had ever done4' ,the fact is the drawings are treated in a more natural and less quaint and decorative manner than was common with her3 and that is what her mentor had always been clamouring for4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,nov4 #ad1 #ahhf4 ,waiting for post in expectation of ,bret ,harte4 ,my dear1 you must always send me all you do4 ,if ,i don't like it--the public will1--if ,i do--there's always one more pleasure in my disconsolate life4 ,and you ought to feel that when ,i do like it--nobody likes it so much6--nor half nor a quarter so much4 ,illustration ,illustration ,illustration ,yes1 it has come--you're a dear good ,katie--and it's lovely4 ,the best thing you have ever done--it is so real and natural4 ,i do hope the public will feel with me for once--yes1 and for twice--and many times to come4 ,it is all delightful1 and the text also--and the print4 ,you may do more in colour however1 next time4 ,then there comes a note of criticism and a note of praise4 ,of criticism1 harking back to ,a ,apple ,pie1 in reply to a sort of good-natured protest from his resolute victim3-- ,but ,i never do scold you6 never think of such a thing6 ,i only say ,i'm--sorry4 ,i have no idea what state of mind you are in when you draw stockings down at the heel1 and shoes with the right foot in the left and the left in the right--and legs lumpy at the shins--and shaky at the knees4 ,and when1 ever--did you put red letters like the bills of a pantomime--in any of my drawings8 and why do it to the public8 ,of praise which in this case has been unduly withheld3-- ,i've never told you how much ,i liked a long blue nymph with a branch of roses who came a month ago4 ,it is a heavenly little puckered blue gown with such a lovely spotty-puckery waistband and collar1 and a microscopic and microcosmic cross of a brooch1 most beautiful to behold4 ,what is she waving her rosebranch for8 and what is she saying8 ,then comes the only letter written by ,miss ,greenaway to ,ruskin before #ahhg and preserved by him1 and it is followed by a few letters of a general character from him to her4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin #ej1 ,,frognal1 #cj ,nov4 #ahhf4 ,yesterday was such a nice day4 ,i had your letter in the morning--then the sun came out--then ,i went to see ,mrs4 ,allingham in the afternoon who was in town for a few days--with such a lot of beautiful drawings---- they were lovely--the most truthful1 the most like things really look--and the most lovely likeness4 ,i've felt envious all the hours since--there was one cottage and garden with a deep background of pines--it was a marvel of painting--then such a rose bush--then1 a divine little picture--of her own beautiful little boy sitting on a garden seat with a girl picking red currants--and a background of deep laurels4 ,you can't think the beauty of it--and many many many more--all so lovely1 so beautiful4 ,she asked me could ,i tell her anything--give her advice--and ,i could not help saying1 ,i can give you nothing but entire praise and the deepest admiration4 ,illustration3 ,,taking ,,in ,,the ,,roses4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,she asked after you1--and she said she had often wished to give you a little drawing--but she didn't know if you would be pleased to have it--,i don't think ,i left any doubt in her mind4 ,she asked me what subject ,i thought you would like best--,i said ,i fancied a pretty little girl with a little cottage or cottage garden--so ,i hope it will come to pass--,i think it will4--,you will be so pleased1 only you will like it better than mine1 but ,mrs4 ,allingham is the nicest of people4 ,i always feel ,i like her so much whenever ,i see her4 ,and ,i wish you could have seen those drawings yesterday for they would have been a deep joy to you4 ,she is going to have an exhibition of #dj in ,london soon4 ,you ought to see them4 ,well--,i hope you're feeling better4 ,i hope ,i will have a letter in the morning4 ,i have enjoyed the ,prterita very much1 it is so cheering to have it coming again-- ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 #a ,dec4 #ahhf4 ,that is delightful hearing about ,mrs4 ,allingham4 ,i'm so very glad she's so nice as to want to give me a picture4 ,please tell her there couldn't be anything more delicious to me--both in the sense of friendship and in the possession4 ,i am very thankful she is doing--as you say--in beauty1 and so much besides4 ,and it is right that you should be a little envious of her realisation--while yet you should be most thankful for your own gift of endless imagination4 ,the realism is in your power whenever you choose4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,dec4 #ab1 #ahhf4 ,i do like you to have the books ,i have cared for1--and--too securely ,i say--there is no chance of my ever wanting to read these more4 ,my only pleasures now are in actual nature or art--not in visions4 ,all national costumes1 as far as ,i know1 are modern4 ,the conditions of trade established after the #afth century changed everything1 and there can be no more consistent art like that which delights you so justly4 ,but the peasant instincts are as old as--#ejj ,b4,c41 through it all--and ,i have seen a half naked beggar's brat in ,rome throw a vine branch round his head1 like a ,greek ,bacchus4 ,and you do more beautiful things yourself1 in their way1 than ever were done before1--but ,i should like you to be more amongst #8the colour of the colours4' ,no1 ,i'm not feeling stronger1 but ,i'm strong enough for all ,i've to do4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,chapter ,,xi #ahhg-ahij ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,as ,a ,,correspondent--,,her ,,letters ,,to ,,ruskin--,,her ,,friends--,,learning ,,perspective--,,ruskin',s ,,last ,,letters--#8,,the ,,pied ,,piper ,,of ,,hamelin'--,,mrs4 ,,allingham1 ,r4,w4,s4--,,the #8,,book ,,of ,,games'--,,elected ,,to ,,the ,,royal ,,institute ,,of ,,painters ,,in ,,water-,,colours--,,paris ,,exhibition--,,death ,,of ,,mr4 ,,john ,,greenaway1 ,,sr4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,the most important publications of the year #ahhg were ,the ,queen of the ,pirate ,isle 7,chatto71 already mentioned2 the ,almanack1 oblong instead of upright as were all the others1 of which over #cg1jjj copies were sold2 and ,queen ,victoria's ,jubilee ,garland1 made up of illustrations collected from earlier books4 ,from this year forward ,ruskin made it a practice to preserve at any rate the majority of ,miss ,greenaway's letters4#eb ,on his side1 however1 the correspondence was soon destined to cease1 and so in place of the interchange of thought1 which would have afforded stimulating reading1 we have to content ourselves with what was in the end to be carried on as a monologue4 ,the earliest of these letters do not lend themselves to extended quotation4 ,it is only later1 when ,kate made it part of her day's work to take her share in relieving the tedium of the aged ,professor's unoccupied days1 that they assume any real importance to the reader4 ,the key-note of these epistles is their artlessness4 ,she has a child's heart at forty and #8lives with her girlhood as with a little sister4' ,as we read them the words #8,how naf' are for ever on our lips4 ,from time to time we come upon a luminous point and a touch of bright humour1 but for the most part the letters are lacking in grip and verve4 ,languid too1 they often are1 the consequence doubtless of the conscientiousness with which she spent herself in her work1 especially when her health during the last ten years of her life was far from robust4 ,and yet with all their shortcomings they have a very real interest and are redolent of her strong personality4 ,they are instinct1 too1 with the scent of flowers1 the love of trees1 the fascinations of her garden1 of sunsets and beauties of earth and sky2 full1 too1 of her dog ,rover1 whom her friends the ,allhusens twit her with calling #8,wover'--indeed hardly a letter goes without a chapter1 or at least a verse1 of ,rover's biography1 from which a book entitled ,the ,diary of a ,dog might easily be compiled4 ,they are full of what she is reading 7as we might expect1 she is always inveighing against the unhappy endings of books7--and tell in detail what she is working at2 full of pictures she has seen which wanted #8a ,ruskin for their proper criticism'2 full of her favourite model #8,mary'--#8we always have a merry time1 ,i think we are both made to laugh a good deal'2 full of her love of nature--#8the garden is full of pictures but ,i can't get time to do them'2 and again1 #8when the sun shines ,i can smell the grass growing'2 full of the seasons--#8they have got mixed up this year2 poor spring has got badly treated or else had an aspiring mind and tried to take too much of the year for her own property--anyhow here is winter again'2 full of her friends1 the ,locker-,lampsons1 the du ,mauriers1 ,lady ,jeune1 #8one of the kindest people in all the world1' and her daughter1 now ,mrs4 ,allhusen1 the ,tennysons1 and the beautiful ,mrs4 ,stuart ,samuel1 #8spring personified dressed in blue and violet--a real ,beauty she is and very nice'2 full of playful allusions to the pedantic conversations of ,miss ,edgeworth's ,harry and ,lucy1 which she and ,ruskin had read and laughed over together4 ,and they are full of the summer and winter exhibitions--#8no one now says a good word for the ,academy though they all want to be made ,r4,a4's'2 full of the pictures she intends to paint--#8,i have often wished lately to paint a picture of ,night--it looks so beautiful out of my window--the yellow lights in the windows--the stars in the sky4 ,i think ,i shall do a little angel rushing along in it1 ,i want to do it as a background to something4 ,if ,i could but do a della ,robbia angel--with that look--those curls'2 and again1 #8,don't you love a market1 a real country one1 where the stalls are so pretty with pears and plums and little sage cheeses and long rolls of butter8 ,for years ,i have been going to paint such a market stall4 ,one day--,i suppose--one day ,i shall4' ,and yet again they describe lovely gardens which she has visited2 full of old houses to which she has made pilgrimages4 ,illustration3 8,,rover40 ,,mr4 ,,john ,,greenaway',s ,,retriever4 ,for ten years ,kate ,greenaway's faithful companion4 ,one day there is a touch of sensitiveness3--#8,i am often amused at the women who sell the violets--they so often smell them before presenting them to the purchaser--this is not always an attraction4' ,another day she touches off a portrait3--#8,my sister's little girl is good to contemplate4 ,her profile is like a cheerful ,burne-,jones4' ,now she airs a prejudice3--#8,i wish there were no worms in the garden4 ,i am so frightened when ,i sow things to see them turn up4 ,i know they are useful but they are not nice-looking4 ,i do not dislike many things1 but a worm ,i have a repulsion for4' ,illustration3 #8,,violets1 ,,sir8' ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,and now she pays one of her rare visits to the theatre--a great event in her quiet life3--#8,i went to see ,rebellious ,susan--not a deep play--very interesting--very cleverly acted4 ,but ,i like going deeper into things1 ,i think ,i like deeper motives for things than what ,society thinks4' ,then she tells of the trouble she takes over her pictures3--#8,i am doing ,cinderella carrying in the ,pumpkin to her fairy godmother--you don't see the godmother4 ,i have put a row of scarlet beans as a background4 ,i am going to grow a row in the garden on purpose4' ,and now she wants what she can't have3--#8,i wish you a very happy ,birthday4 ,i wish ,i was going to be there to see all the lovely flowers you are going to have4 ,if ,i were there you should ask me to tea--,i think--yes1 ,i think you ought to ask me to tea--and we'd have raspberry jam for tea--a muffin1 some violets--and a ,turner to look at--oh yes1 ,i think you should ask me to tea4' ,that is the kind of letter she writes--dwelling but a moment on this or that point1 irresponsible1 sportive1 sometimes gay1 less often grave1 delightful to the receiver but rarely with sufficient #8body' for the unsympathetic coldness of printer's ink4 ,the drawings which embellished them are charming in their spontaneity1 and who can wonder at the half-heartedness of ,ruskin's protest when he writes3-- --,in trying to prevent you wasting your time on me ,i have never told you how much ,i do enjoy these little drawings4 ,they are an immense addition to the best pleasures of my life and give me continual interest and new thought4 ,little marvel that such a protest prompted her to become even more lavish than before4 ,what a delight these letters were to him when ill-health made any written response impracticable may be gathered from ,mrs4 ,severn's reiterated announcements3-- #8,the ,professor is absorbed with delight in your letter4'--#8,your letters are always so interesting and a real pleasure to him4'--#8,how grateful ,i ever am for your untiring goodness to him4 ,your letters really are one of the great pleasures of his life4'--#8,your lovely letter with the sweet little people looking from the ridge of the hill at the rising sun so delighted ,di ,pa4#ec ,he looked at it long and lovingly and kept repeating 8,beautiful6 beautiful6 beautiful60' ,and when he was ill in #ahig3--#8,your letters 7the only ones he at present has7 he much enjoys4' ,these letters were full of passing allusions to her friends1 of whom she now had many amongst persons distinguished in art and society4 ,she was slow at forming intimacies but she was tenacious of them when made4 ,as she wrote to her friend of many years' standing1 the ,hon4 ,mrs4 ,sutton ,nelthorpe1 in #ahif3 ,i'm sorry now that ,i can see you so seldom4--,that's me1 so slow at getting to want a person and then wanting them so much4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,garden ,,seat4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 ,to mention only a few of her friends1 there were ,mrs4 ,miller1 ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 the ,stuart ,samuels1 ,lady ,dorothy ,nevill1 ,lady ,jeune1 ,lady ,victoria ,herbert1 ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,loftie1 ,stacy ,marks1 the du ,mauriers1 ,mrs4 ,allhusen1 ,mrs4 ,richmond ,ritchie1 the ,edmund ,evans'1 ,mr4 ,norman ,shaw1 ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson1 the ,locker-,lampsons1 ,lady ,mayo1 the ,hon4 ,gerald and ,lady ,maria ,ponsonby1 the ,hon4 ,mrs4 ,sutton ,nelthorpe1 ,mrs4 ,allingham1 the ,duchess of ,st4 ,albans1 ,lady ,ashburton1 the ,tennysons1 ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn1 her daughters1 the ,misses ,lily and ,violet ,severn1 and her husband1 ,mr4 ,arthur ,severn1 ,r4,i41 ,miss ,vyvyan1 and ,miss ,fripp4 ,miss ,vyvyan1 like ,mrs4 ,basil ,martineau and ,mrs4 ,ridley ,corbet 7wife of the distinguished painter1 the late ,m4 ,ridley ,corbet1 ,a4,r4,a471 was a fellow-student of ,kate's2 ,miss ,fripp was niece of the well-known member of the ,royal ,water-,colour ,society4 ,with ,mrs4 ,garrett ,anderson1 ,m4,d41 for some years from #ahhg her medical adviser1 she was very friendly4 ,with ,mr4 ,anderson1 too2 and also with ,miss ,mary ,anderson1 ,kate was on the most intimate terms during her life at ,hampstead4 ,in ,march of this year ,ruskin set himself the task of teaching her perspective in about a dozen consecutive letters4 ,he had often alluded to the matter1 but now he fills his letters with diagrams of cubes and gables and arches1 sparing no pains to make things plain to her and setting her tasks which she most faithfully performed4 ,the technical parts of these letters would here be out of place but some of the side issues suggested by them will bear quotation4 ,to tell the truth1 the perspective in her drawings is often very deficient1 and the calm violation of its laws in some of her earlier work was due1 not to quaintness as people thought1 but to real inability to master it4 ,she would innocently make independent sketches of pretty cottages1 real or imagined1 and then calmly group them together1 with little or no correction or bringing into harmony1 as a background for a composition of playing children4 ,in her earlier years her father would often put these portions of her design into proper perspective1 and later on her brother ,john4 ,indeed1 at her first exhibition a critic was examining a drawing from ,under the ,window1 and as he looked it over1 he exclaimed to a friend1 first in amazement and then in anger1 #8,she has one point of sight here1 and another here6 and here6 and here66 ,why1 she has five distinct points of sight6' ,afterwards her brother would reduce the whole to correctness for her to re-draw4 ,so when ,ruskin began to educate her in a branch of art which1 by the way1 is neglected and loathed by not a few of the greatest of the world's painters1 she explained to him how she was in this respect in the excellent care of her brother4 ,mr4 ,john ,greenaway1 by the way1 always believed that his sister's curious inaccuracy was due to her short-sightedness2 as she would approach too closely to the objects she drew1 and so #8got them out4' ,thereupon1 on ,march #h1 ,ruskin writes3 #8,i like ,johnnie's sticking himself up to teach you perspective6 ,i never believed you'd learn it1 or ,i'd have taught it to you here1 and been done with it4 ,anyhow--don't you let him teaze you any more and just mind this to begin with4' ,here1 follow diagrams and explanation1 and he goes on #8,that's enough for to-day4 ,three more scribbles will teach you all you'll ever need to know4' ,two days later he returns to the subject3--#8,there's no fear of your forgetting perspective1 any more than forgetting how to dance4 ,one can't help it when one knows4 ,the next rule you have to learn is more than half way4 ,one never uses the rules1 one only feels them--and defies if one likes--like ,john ,bellini4 ,but we should first know and enjoy them4' ,the last words refer to the following passage which he had written the day before1 when sending her a copy he had had made for her of ,bellini's picture3-- #8,the ,globe picture is one of a series done by ,john ,bellini of the ,gods and ,goddesses of good and evil to man4#ed ,she is the sacred ,venus--,venus always rises out of the sea1 but this one out of laughing sea of unknown depth4 ,she holds the world in her arms1 changed into heaven4' ,on ,march #ab he says1 apropos of her work on the ,pied ,piper1 #8,finished the rats1 have you6 but you ought to do dozens of rats in perspective with radiating tails4' ,here he draws a rough example of what he means and continues3--#8,i believe the perfection of perspective is only recent4 ,it was first applied to ,italian ,art by ,paul ,uccello 7,paul the ,bird--because he drew birds so well and many74 ,he went off his head with his love of perfection--and ,leonardo and ,raphael spoiled a lot of pictures with it1 to show they knew it4 ,now the next thing you have to be clear of in perspective is that--the ,heavenly ,venus is out of it4 ,you couldn't see her and the high horizon at once4 ,but as she sees all round the world there are no laws of perspective for her4' ,not unnaturally1 perhaps1 ,miss ,greenaway claims for herself the same licence or privilege of abstention as ,bellini was allowed1 so on ,march #agth ,ruskin replies3--#8,i didn't answer your question 8,why may not ,i defy ,perspective as well as ,john ,bellini80 ,not because you are less--but because defying is a quite different thing from running against4 ,perspective won't put up with you--if you tread on her toes--but will concede half her power to you if you can look her in the eyes4 ,i won't tell you more till you're across that river4' ,two other extracts from ,ruskin's letters1 and the record of this year is complete4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood1 ,monday #bc ,jan4 #ahhg4 ,i'm still quite well thank ,god1 and as prudent as can be--and have been enjoying my own drawings6 and think ,i shan't mind much if there's a fault or two in your's6typo for yours8 ,but we will have it out about suns and moons like straw hats6 and shoes like butter boats--and lilies crumpled like pocket-handkerchiefs1 and frocks chopped up instead of folded4 ,i've got a whole cupboard full of dolls for lay figures and five hundred plates of costume--to be ,kate ,greenawayed4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,april #d1 #ahhg4 ,the anemones are here--and quite lovely1 but you know they're not like those wild ones of ,italy and wither ever so much sooner4 ,i'm enjoying my botany again--but on the whole ,i think it's very absurd of flowers not to be prettier6 ,how they might all grow up into lovely trees--and pinks grow like almond blossom1 and violets everywhere like daisies1 tulips climb about like ,virginian creeper--and not stand staring just as if they'd been just stuck into the ground4--,fancy a house all in a mantle of tulips4--,and how many new shapes they might invent6444 ,and why aren't there ,water ,roses as well as ,water ,lilies8 ,in the early part of the year ,kate ,greenaway seems to have designed a cover for ,the ,peace of ,polissena1 by ,miss ,francesca ,alexander1 a #8,part' of ,christ's ,folk in the ,apennine1 edited and partly written by ,ruskin--a graceful reply to her supposed but of course entirely imaginary jealousy of that lady's work--but it does not appear to have been used4 ,this may have been a result of the return of the ,master's illness which again laid him low in the spring of #ahhg4 ,in ,january of #ahhh we find him sufficiently recovered to write the following pathetic letters from ,sandgate1 whither he had gone to recuperate4 ,in other letters of this period he complains that he has hardly strength to answer hers1 and that he is sadly oppressed by the cold which oppresses her4 ,he praises her for her appreciation of ,donatello1 and says that ,donatello would have appreciated ,kate ,greenaway4 ,but he qualifies his praise by telling her that she would do far more beautiful things if she would not allow herself to be hurried away by the new thoughts which crowd upon her and hinder her from fully realising any4 ,then he falls foul of modern novels1 of which he is having a surfeit through the circulating library4 ,some of the books for girls he finds passably good but deplores the fashion1 which began with ,misunderstood1 of breaking children's backs1 so that one never knows what is going to happen to them when they go out walking6 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,sandgate #bg ,jan4 #hh4 ,you cannot conceive how in my present state1 ,i envy--that is to say only in the strongest way1 long for--the least vestige of imagination1 such as yours4 ,when nothing shows itself to me--all day long--but the dull room or the wild sea and ,i think what it must be to you to have far sight into dreamlands of truth--and to be able to see such scenes of the most exquisite grace and life and quaint vivacity--whether you draw them or not1 what a blessing to have them there--at your call4 ,and then ,i stopped and have been lying back in my chair the last quarter of an hour1--thinking--,if ,i could only let you feel for only a quarter of an hour what it is to have no imagination--no power of calling up lovely things--no guidance of pencil point along the visionary line--,oh how thankful you would be to find your mind again4 ,and what lovely work you have spent--where no one will ever see it but poor me--on the lightest of your messages4 ,do you remember the invitation sent by the girl holding the muffin high on her toasting fork8 ,you never did a more careful or perfect profile4 ,and the clusters of beauty in those festival or farewell ones8 ,well1 ,i had joy out of them--such as you meant--and more than ever ,i could tell you1 nor do ,i ever cease to rejoice at and wonder at them1--but with such sorrow that they are not all in a great lovely book1 for all the world's ,new ,years and ,easter days4 ,you might do a book of ,festas1 one of these days--with such processions6 ,illustration3 ,,happy ,,returns ,,of ,,the ,,day4 ,from a water-colour drawing made by ,kate ,greenaway for ,john ,ruskin upon his birthday4 ,in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,by #8processions' are meant the long drawings with a bevy of following maids1 and sometimes of boys too1 of which one or two examples are included in this book4 ,they contain some of ,miss ,greenaway's most careful and dainty work in drawing1 colour1 and composition1 but1 unfortunately1 are so large that they have suffered great reduction4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,sandgate #ag ,feb4 #hh4 ,it's just as bad here as everywhere else--there are no birds but seagulls and sparrows--there is snow everywhere--and north-east wind on the hills1--but none on the sea--which is as dull as the ,regent's ,canal4 ,but ,i was very glad of the flower letter yesterday1--and the chicken-broth one to-day1 only ,i can't remember that cat whom ,i had to teach to like cream4 ,i believe it is an acquired taste--and that most cats can conceive nothing better than milk4 ,i am puzzled by ,jim's inattention to drops left on the tablecloth--he cleans his saucer scrupulously1 but ,i've never seen him lap up1 or touch up1 a spilt drop4 ,he is an extremely graceful grey striped fat cushion of a cat1--with extremely winning ways of lying on his back on my knee1 with his head anywhere and his paws everywhere4 ,but he hasn't much conversation and our best times are ,i believe when we both fall asleep4 ,he says he yearns for #8,pipers1' alluding1 of course1 to drawings for #8,the ,pied ,piper of ,hamelin1 by ,robert ,browning1 with #ce ,illustrations by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,engraved and printed in colours by ,edmund ,evans1' which ,george ,routledge ,sons were just publishing4 ,the book1 which was charming throughout1 save for a poor drawing on page #ca and a curious solecism on page #ci1 met with immediate and gratifying success4 ,stacy ,marks wrote3--#8,you have far exceeded my expectations in carrying through what must have been a strange and difficult task4' ,ruskin spoke of it as the grandest thing she had ever done4 ,an ,american admirer wrote enthusiastically3--#8,you have more followers in the ,states than ever the ,pied ,piper of ,hamelin had4' ,she sold the original drawings for a large sum to ,messrs4 ,palmer ,howe of ,manchester4 ,on ,feb4 #bc ,ruskin writes3-- ,the ,piper came by the #aa post--ten minutes after my note left this morning4 ,i only expected outline proofs1 so you may judge how pleased ,i was4 ,it is all as good and nice as it can be1 and you really have got through your rats with credit--and the ,piper is sublime-and the children lovely4 ,but ,i am more disappointed in the #8,paradise' than ,i expected to be--a real view of ,hampstead ponds in spring would have been more celestial to me than this customary flat of yours with the trees stuck into it at regular distances--,and not a ,peacock6--nor a flying horse66 ,the only other publications of the year were the sixth ,almanack1 of which #bj1jjj out of #cg1ejj copies went to ,america and #f1ejj to ,france1 and a contribution to ,the ,american ,queen4 ,there were also private commissions executed for ,lady ,dorothy ,nevill1 ,lady ,northcote1 and ,mr4 ,ponsonby4 ,illustration3 ,,cottages4 ,from a large water-colour drawing in the possession of ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 ,but the crowning event of #ahhh was the friendship which she now formed with ,mrs4 ,allingham4 ,sixteen years before they had worked side by side as students1 but since then their paths had diverged4 ,the account of their intimacy will best be told in that delightful artist's own words3-- ,it must have been in #ahgb or #ahgc that ,i first met ,kate ,greenaway at an evening class at the ,slade ,school 7which ,i only attended for three months74 ,i had given up my student work at the ,r4,a4 schools--7she doubtless had then left ,kensington7 for drawing on the wood in my own studio4 ,i was not formally introduced to her till several years after ,i was married1 when ,i met her at an evening party at ,tennyson's--in ,belgrave ,square1 ,i think4 ,mr4 ,frederick ,locker presented me to her1 and we had a pleasant talk1 ,i remember4 ,in #ahha1 we went to live at ,witley in ,surrey1 and among our kindest neighbours were ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,edmund ,evans1 with whom ,kate often came to stay4 ,for several years we 7,k4 and ,i7 had merely pleasant friendly meetings without in any way becoming intimate4 ,i think it was in the spring of #ahhh that we went out painting together in the copses near ,witley and became really friends4 ,in the autumn of that year we removed to ,hampstead1 and it was always a pleasure to visit ,kate in her beautiful home and to sit and chat with her by the hour in her cosy little tea-room or in the great studio full of interesting things4 ,when the time came for saying good-night1 she would always come down to the hall-door and generally put on a hat hanging in the hall and come as far as the gate for more friendly last words4 ,one day in the autumn of #ahhi we went to ,pinner together on an exploring expedition for subjects1 and were delighted with some of the old cottages we saw there4 ,i had been pressing her ever since our spring time together at ,witley to share with me some of the joys of painting out of doors4 ,another day we went farther afield--to ,chesham and ,amersham4 ,she was delighted with the beauty of the country and the picturesque old towns--especially with the #8backs' at ,amersham and the river with its border of willows and little cottage gardens and back yards4 ,as evening drew on and black clouds warned us that a storm was imminent1 we hailed a baker's cart that was going towards our station and we agreed that it gave us a capital view of the country over the high hedges4 ,in the spring of #ahij ,i took my children to ,freshwater1 ,isle of ,wight1 and found rooms near us for ,kate4 ,she and ,i went out painting together daily1 either to some of the pretty old thatched cottages around ,farringford or to the old dairy in the grounds1 when we often had a friendly visit from the great poet himself1 or from ,mr4 ,hallam ,tennyson1 with an invitation to come up to tea4 ,during the summer of that year 7#ahij7 we continued our out-door work together1 generally taking an early train from ,finchley ,road to ,pinner1 for the day4 ,she was always scrupulously thoughtful for the convenience and feelings of the owners of the farm or cottage we wished to paint1 with the consequence that we were made welcome to sit in the garden or orchard where others were refused admittance4 ,i am afraid that her short sight must have greatly added to the difficulty of out-door painting for her4 ,i remember her exclaiming one day at ,pinner1 #8,what am ,i to do8 ,when ,i look at the roof it is all a red blur--when ,i put on my spectacles ,i see every crack in the tiles4' ,though we often sat side by side1 painting the same object 7generally silently--for she was a very earnest1 hard worker--and perhaps ,i was1 too71 it seemed to me that there was little likeness between our drawings--especially after the completion in the studio4 ,but she was one of the most sensitive of creatures and ,i think she felt that it might be wiser for both of us to discontinue the practice of working from the same subjects1 so1 after that summer of #ahij1 we did not go out painting any more together4 ,whether days or months passed between our meetings1 ,i was always sure of the same hearty greeting from her4 ,the last time ,i saw her was ,feb4 #bh1 #aija1 at the ,fine ,art ,society4 ,i thought she looked fairly well1 and seemed so1 though she spoke of having felt tired sometimes4 ,but she said nothing of the serious illness of the year before4 ,it was not possible to have much talk then4 ,i became exceedingly busy just after that time1 and in ,may went abroad--and when later on in the year ,i called at her house1 ,i was told she was not well enough to see friends4 ,her work remains for all to see and enjoy4 ,of herself1 ,i can truly say that she was one of the most honest1 straightforward1 and kindly of women3 a sympathetic1 true1 and steadfast friend4 ,the year #ahhi produced1 besides the ,almanack1 which by now had become an institution1 ,kate ,greenaway's ,book of ,games--with1 as a matter of course1 ,mr4 ,evans as engraver and printer1 and ,g4 ,routledge ,sons as publishers--and #8,the ,royal ,progress of ,king ,pepito1 written by ,beatrice ,f4 ,cresswell1 illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway1' and published by the ,society for ,promoting ,christian ,knowledge4 ,of each of these books nearly ten thousand copies were issued4 ,the ,book of ,games1 in which she could choose her own subjects and follow her own bent1 found ,k4 ,g41 if not at her best1 at least happy and unrestrained1 while with ,king ,pepito it was otherwise4 ,as was usually the case with her1 she found it hard to assimilate another's ideas4 ,the inelasticity of story-book illustrating seemed to paralyse her pencil and she became mannered and conventional4 ,illustration3 ,,pencil ,,and ,,tint ,,drawing4 ,in the possession of ,b4 ,elkin ,mocatta1 ,esq4 ,this year she was elected a member of the ,royal ,institute of ,painters in ,water-,colours1 and was moreover represented by thirteen frames of drawings in the ,british ,section of the ,international ,exhibition at ,paris4#ee ,these were greatly admired1 and elicited the following1 amongst innumerable other tributes of praise3-- ,son genre a t une innovation et une preuve de bravoure1 comme tous les actes d'indpendance dans l'ordre moral et artistique4 ,lancer au milieu d'une socit blase1 ces chapps de nurseries1 vtus la mode bizarre et charmante qu'on appelle maintenant #8la ,greenaway1' tait coup sr original4444 ,les uvres de l'aquarelliste anglaise jettent-elles l une note frache et gaie1 et font-elles l'effet d'un enfant dans un intrieur de vieux1 d'un oiseau gar dans un clotre4444 ,l'usateur des ,almanachs semble avoir une prfrence marque pour certaines couleurs3 elle excelle dans l'usage du blanc1 du rose1 et du vert4 ,avec leur emploi1 elle arrive des teintes effaces d'un effet charmant4 ,ses tons voquent l'image des pendules fleurs et des soies anciennes1 des vieilles faences paysages et des cladonnades la ,watteau1 toutes ces choses1 comme elles nous arrivent maintenant1 manges de soleil1 vieilles d'un sicle et pourtant encore dlicieusement jolies1 ainsi que les aquarelles qui en rveillent le souvenir4 ,since the spring of #ahhh there had been no letters from ,ruskin1 who had made his last foreign tour to ,france1 ,switzerland1 and ,italy in the vain hope of renewing his health4 ,now in the spring of #ahhi he was back at ,brantwood with ten pathetic years before him of growing infirmity4 ,in ,may he was well enough to write to ,miss ,greenaway the following letters1 which were to be the last he was ever to send4 ,in the course of the following month he produced a chapter of ,prterita and then his literary career was closed4 ,,ruskin ,,to ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,brantwood ,may-day #ahhi4 ,i've been a-maying with you all day1--coming upon one beautiful thing after another in my drawer1 so long unopened--most thankfully to-day unlocked again--and sending balm and rose and lily sweetness all through the old study4 ,what exquisite drawings those were you did just before ,i fell so ill1--the children passing under the flower arch--c46 and ,joan tells me you are doing such lovely things now with such backgrounds1--grander than ever1 and of course the ,piper is the best book you ever did--the ,piper himself unsurpassable--and ,i feel as if he had piped me back out of the hill again1 and would give some spring times yet to rejoice in your lovely work and its witness to them4 ,i do hope much1 now--the change is greater and deeper for good than it has ever been before1 but ,i have to watch almost every breath lest ,i should fall back again4 ,i wonder if you would care to come down in the wild rose time--and draw a branch or two1 with the blue hills seen through them1 and perhaps study a little falling water--or running--in the green shadows4 ,i wouldn't set you to horrid work in the study1 you should even draw any quantity of those things that you liked--in the forenoon--and have tea in the study1 and perhaps we could go on with the ,swiss fish story6 and ,i've some psalter work in hand that ,i want you to help me intebbily1--and poor ,joanie will be so thankful to have somebody to look after me a little1 as well as her3--and so--perhaps you'll come1 won't you8 ,,brantwood1 #c ,may1 #ahhi4 ,i am so very thankful that you can come--and still care to come--6 ,i was so afraid you might have some work on hand that would hinder you--but now1 ,i do trust that you will be quite happy1 for indeed you will find here1 when you are at liberty to do what you like best1--the exact things that become most tractable in their infinite beauty4 ,you are doing great work already--some of the pages of the ,piper are magnificent pictures1 though with a white background--you will be led by the blue mountains and in the green glens to a deeper colour-melody--and--to how much else--there is no calculating4 ,please bring the primrose picture6--it will be the intensest delight to me and in looking over your drawings again1 7how many do you think there are in my ,kate drawer1 now--besides those in the cabinets87 ,i feel more than ever--,i might almost say twice as much as ,i used to1 their altogether unrivalled loveliness4 ,and ,i think1 as soon as you have seen all the exhibitions1 and feel able to pack your country dresses and sacrifice ,london gaieties for monastic peace in art and nature1 that you should really come2 the roses will soon be here--and the gentians and hyacinths will certainly be here before you--and it is best1 while all things bid fair for us1 to take ,fortune at her word4 ,i trust that my health will go on improving--but ,i might take cold1 or ,joanie might--or the children4 ,at present we're all right and ,i want you to come as soon as may be4 ,,brantwood ,sunday #ab ,may1 #ahhi4 ,i am so sorry you can't come sooner1 to see the gentians--but ,i suppose they contrive ways of growing them now even in ,london4 ,but ,i have a cluster of nine1--in a little glass in the study bow window--you know where that is86--three little roses pretending to be peach blossoms in another little glass on my table1 and beside them a cluster of #8myrtilla cara'--if you don't know what that is1 it's just jealousy and ,i'll make you paint some--where your easel shan't tumble1 nor your colours be overflown--,i don't a bit know what's the right word--,shakespeare's no authority1 is he nowadays8--and next the ,myrtilla ,cara who is in her sweetest pride and humility of fruit-like blossom1 there's a cluster of the most beautiful pyrus ,i ever saw--it is almost white1 ,i suppose with the cold and rain1 where it blooms on the outside wall1 but on my table--brought in by ,joanie1 it has become glowing red--not in the least like a rose--but yet not in the least vulgar--like a lady wearing a scarlet cloak--and with its own grand laurel-like leaves4 ,well1 if you can't come yet you can't--but you must read a little bit of me every day--to keep you steady against the horrible mob of animals calling themselves painters1 nowadays 7--,i could paint better than they by merely throwing my ink bottle at them--if ,i thought them worth the ink74 ,but take my ,ariadne ,florentina--and read for to-morrow the #aabth paragraph1 p4 #id--;and in the appendix1 the #bddth page down to #8steam whistle4'--,post's going--and ,i must not begin any special appendix to ,katie--except that she must not plague herself with endeavours to realise the impossible--,her first1 and easy duty is to catch the beautiful expressions of real children4 ,,brantwood1 #ad ,may1 #ahhi4 ,i am so very happy you are teaching yourself ,french4 ,it is the greatest addition you can give to the happiness of your life1--some day ,i hope--old as ,i am--to see you drawing ,french children--and listening to them6 ,and you must learn a little ,latin too6 only to enjoy the nomenclature of ,proserpina4 ,please take it down and read pages #bbg1 #bbh1 about ,myrtilla cara--and just look at my type of all perfection1 the ,angel ,raphael's left hand in the great ,perugino1--it will refresh you and contrast1 ever more brightly and richly1 with modern mud and pewter4--,but-- 444 the idea of asking why a hand is so difficult6 ,why it's ever so much harder than even a foot--and for an arm--nobody ever could paint a girl's arm yet--from elbow to wrist4--,it's not quite fair to show you these two tries of yours--but yet1 the moral of them is that you must cure yourself of thinking so much of hair and hats and parasols--and attend first1 7for some time to come7 to toes--fingers--and wrists4 ,thus ended1 so far as ,ruskin was concerned1 a correspondence which had not only been one of the greatest pleasures of ,kate ,greenaway's life1 but had been above all a healthy stimulus and a liberal education4 ,the following year1 #ahij1 which saw no publication calling for notice other than the ,almanack1 was clouded by the death of her father1 ,mr4 ,greenaway1 on ,august #bfth4 ,he was one of those honourable1 hard-working1 competent servants of the public who1 content to do their work quietly1 look for no fame and no reward beyond the right to live and earn an honest livelihood for themselves and their dependants4 ,mr4 ,mason ,jackson of the ,illustrated ,london ,news paid him a fitting tribute when he wrote3-- ,i have known ,mr4 ,greenaway so long and admired his sterling qualities so much that ,i feel ,i have lost another of my valued friends4 ,his family will have the satisfaction of feeling that he has left behind him an unblemished character and a respected name4 ,ever ready to help in charitable undertakings1 although almost driven to her wits' end to get through work which had to be done1 ,kate this year designed a cover for the album of the ,bazaar held in aid of the #8,new ,hospital for ,women'2 such contributions she felt due to a public from whom she had received so handsome a recognition4 ,very different1 however1 were the feelings she expressed towards the methods of certain journals of getting something for nothing1 and over these she would wax exceedingly indignant4 ,there were those who solicited her for an 7unremunerated7 opinion #8as a representative woman on the servant question1' or for a few lines on #8why ,i like painting for children1' or for #8the briefest message to our readers in a series of timely words or messages from men and women distinguished in politics1 literature1 and art'2 or for a #8gratuitous product of your skill--which would give you a magnificent advertisement and result materially to your renown and prosperity'6 ,to signalise her election she contributed to the ,royal ,institute of ,painters in ,water-,colours four exhibits--#8,a ,portrait of a ,little ,boy1' #8,an ,angel visited the ,green ,earth1' #8,boy with ,basket of ,apples1' and #8,head of a ,boy'2 and she exhibited also a portrait of a little lad at the ,royal ,academy4 ,illustration3 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,in ,,her ,,studio1 #ahie4 ,from a private photograph by ,mrs4 ,william ,miller4 ,,chapter ,,xii #ahia-ahie ,,miss ,,greenaway',s ,,first ,,exhibition--,,the ,,hon4 ,,gerald ,,ponsonby--#8,,almanacks'--,,contributi ons ,,to ,,the ,,columbian ,,exposition1 ,,chicago--,,book-,,plates--,,lady ,,maria ,,ponsonby--,,works ,,sold--#8,,the ,,ladies' ,,home ,,journal'--,,death ,,of ,,mrs4 ,,greenaway--,,lady ,,mayo--,,brantwood ,,again--,k4 ,g4',s ,,criticism ,,of ,,modern ,,art--,,marie ,,bashkirtseff--,,friendship ,,with ,,miss ,,violet ,,dickinson--,,religious ,,opinions--,,ruskin--,,views ,,on ,,mr4 ,,george ,,meredith1 ,,etc4 ,illustration3 ,on a letter to ,ruskin4 ,for the last year or two ,kate ,greenaway had shown unmistakable signs of failing energy1 and in #ahia her friend ,mr4 ,anderson of the ,orient ,line sought to persuade her to take a sea-voyage on the steamship ,garonne3 it must not be supposed1 however1 that she was yet showing the first symptoms of the illness which was to terminate ten years later in her death4 ,she published no work this year except the ,almanack and1 though scarcely worthy of repeated mention1 the title-page designed for ,the ,orient ,guide1 as a graceful acknowledgment of ,mr4 ,anderson's kindly friendship4 ,at the ,royal ,academy1 she was represented by a #8,girl's ,head1' and at the ,royal ,institute by #8,an ,old ,farm ,house' and #8,a ,cottage in ,surrey4' ,but the year was far from being uneventful1 for now for the first time she determined to hold a #8one-man' exhibition of her water-colour drawings at the ,gallery of the ,fine ,art ,society1 at #adh1 ,new ,bond ,street4 ,the exhibition was highly successful4 ,the town flocked to see the originals of the designs which had charmed it for so many years in the reproductions1 and greatly was the world surprised at the infinite tenderness1 delicacy1 and grace of her execution1 and the wealth of her invention4 ,sir ,frederick ,leighton purchased two of her pictures and others followed suit to the amount of more than #a1cej4 7,the net sum which came to her was #ifd47 ,for the first time the general public and the critics had the opportunity of assigning to ,kate ,greenaway her rightful place amongst contemporary artists4 ,she had appeared in most of the important exhibitions in ,london and the provinces1 and her pictures had almost invariably found purchasers1 but these occasional exhibits had been comparatively few4 ,now her work could be gauged in bulk and there was a chorus of approval4 ,not that too much stress must be laid upon that4 ,even now1 some years after her death1 there is some contention as to exactly where she stands4 ,as ,mr4 ,lionel ,robinson asked at the time--did she found a school or did she only start a fashion8 was hers but a passing ad captandum popularity or does her art contain the true elements of immortality8 ,the following letters of this year exhibit her perennial love of spring flowers1 with which ,lady ,mayo now constantly supplied her1 in return for which on this occasion she sent a drawing of ,st4 ,john's wort1 bluebell1 and apple-blossom2 and we recognise once more her fastidious terror lest she should receive payment for what was not precisely to the taste of her clients4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,lady ,,mayo ,dear ,lady ,mayo--,your lovely flowers have just come4 ,it is too good of you to have such kind thought and remembrance of me4 ,i thank you very much4 ,i think nothing gives me such joy and delight as spring flowers1 and after this long1 long winter how delightful it is to have them back again4 ,the springs always come late to us here2 it is such a cold place4 ,i am just now going into ,surrey to paint primroses4 ,i feel ,i must send you a flower also4 ,i wish it could be as lovely as yours6--,with kind regards and again thanks1 yours very sincerely1 ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,illustration3 ,,portrait ,,of ,a ,,lady4 ,in pencil and water-colour--an experimental drawing4 ,in the possession of the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby4 ,the following letter probably refers to the first of a set of tiny water-colour portraits of children executed for ,mr4 ,ponsonby which show what she might have accomplished if she had set herself seriously to the painting of miniatures3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mr4 ,,ponsonby #ej1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead1 ,n4,w41 #eth ,october #ahia4 ,dear ,mr4 ,ponsonby--,i am long in sending you the drawing1 and now ,i do send it1 ,i am afraid you will feel it very unsatisfactory2 ,i feel it so myself--it is so much more difficult to me--doing a ,portrait than a purely fancy drawing4 ,now ,i can't make up my mind if it requires more darks or not4 ,if you feel that let me have it back and ,i will put them in4 ,i am rather afraid to do more4 ,i have puzzled over it until ,i don't know what it wants really4 ,but one thing is certain1 you must not have it if you do not care for it4 ,i should be so sorry if you did1--it would really pain me and you know it would not matter in the least4 ,i should be the gainer--having had such a pleasant time with you and a pretty little girl to draw--so please be very sure you don't keep it if it is not what you wish4 ,the ,african marigolds are still beautiful--the memories of ,christchurch and ,poole are still vivid--,i did so very much like seeing them4 ,i believe seeing old towns and villages are my greatest enjoyments1--if only ,i did not make such abject sketches4 ,i saw the salmon-coloured house on my way home4--,with kind regards1 yours sincerely1 ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,for the next nine years 7#ahib-aijj7 there were no new publications with ,kate ,greenaway's name on the title-page with the exception of the ,almanacks4 ,these were published in #ahib1 #c1 #d1 and #e by ,george ,routledge ,sons as heretofore4 ,in #ahif there was none3 perhaps1 as we have said1 because that for #ahie had been #8made up'--much against ,k4 ,g4's will--from old and comparatively unsuccessful work2 still1 as we see later1 an application was made to ,miss ,greenaway for an almanack1 but she was indisposed to do it4 ,in #ahig the last was published by ,j4 ,m4 ,dent ,co4 ,of these charming booklets complete sets are now not easy to obtain1 and readily fetch four or five times their original cost4 ,in #ahib there was a small exhibition of twenty of her water-colours by ,messrs4 ,van ,baerle in ,glasgow1 and an important commission executed for the ,dowager ,lady ,ashburton4 ,in #ahic five of her drawings were sold at the ,columbian ,exhibition1 ,chicago1 for forty-five guineas4 ,these were the title-page to ,marigold ,garden1 #8,the ,mulberry ,bush1' #8,girl drawing a ,chaise1' #8,little ,girlie1' and #8,little ,phyllis4' ,the ,almanack drawings of this year were disposed of through ,messrs4 ,palmer1 ,howe ,co4 of ,manchester to ,mr4 ,david ,walker of ,middleton in the neighbourhood of that city1 with special and exclusive permission to reproduce them as designs for #8sanitary wall-papers4' ,kate was delighted with the results and many a nursery is now gay with these charming productions4#ef ,the modern passion for book-plate collecting was at this time at its height and ,kate came in for her meed of praise at the hands of ,mr4 ,egerton ,castle in his ,english ,book-plates of this year1 and at the hands1 too1 of ,miss ,norna ,labouchere in her ,ladies' ,book-plates1 of two years later4 ,in the former are reproduced those designed by ,miss ,greenaway for #8,frederick ,locker' and his son #8,godfrey ,locker-,lampson1' and in the latter for #8,dorothy ,locker-,lampson' and #8,sarah ,nickson4' ,amongst others for whom she designed book-plates may be mentioned ,lady ,victoria ,herbert1 ,miss ,vera ,samuel 7a child's book-plate71 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,black1 and ,mr4 ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel4 ,most of those mentioned are here reproduced4 ,although the publications of these closing years of her life were scanty it must not be supposed that ,k4 ,g4 allowed her pencil and brush to be idle4 ,this was far from the case4 ,it is true that her work done for reproduction was nearly at an end1 but she was devoting herself with unabated enthusiasm1 so far as her health would allow1 to the more congenial task of painting small easel pictures in water-colour in view of future exhibitions at the ,fine ,art ,society's gallery4 ,illustration3 ,,joan ,,ponsonby1 #ahia4 ,from a miniature in the possession of the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby4 ,the following letter shows her hard at work for her next public appearance1 and the entry of this year1 the only entry in her long range of laconic diaries of an introspective nature--#8,to remember to keep resolution firmly and to think how much can be made of ,art and ,life1'--demonstrates the spirit in which she was working4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mr4 ,,ponsonby #ej1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead1 ,n4,w41 #bith ,dec4 #ahic4 ,dear ,mr4 ,ponsonby--,i believe the ,exhibition is finally settled at ,,last--drawings to be sent in on the #aeth1 and ,private ,view to take place on the #bjth4444 ,and it is nice weather to get on in6 ,black night here the last three days4444 ,,mr4 ,,huish ,,of ,,course changes the date about nine times4 ,first they couldn't1 then they could4 ,first the small room and then the big one4 ,,he suggested ,palms to fill up the corners4 ,think of my poor little works floating about in that big room4 ,i wrote a beautiful letter1 suggesting that a considerable amount of ,palms seemed inevitable--but the letter was not allowed to be sent1 my brother considered it ,,flippant and unbusiness-like4 ,i thought this rather hard1 as ,i had abstained from remarking that a few apple trees or roses might be more in accordance with the sentiment of my drawings than plants of an ,oriental character4 ,however ,i am going to have the small room4 ,shall you be still in ,london8 ,nothing will get finished if this fog lasts4 ,i was desperately sorry not to see the tree--but there was no help4 ,i wrote to ,lady ,maria in so much of a hurry--,i hope ,i explained clearly1 and that ,i am hoping to come to tea when a leisure afternoon comes to ,lady ,maria to have me4 ,i wish you and ,lady ,maria a very happy ,new ,year4--,yours sincerely1 ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,i'm too delighted that the shops are once more open--and that the ,post comes and goes4 ,the exhibition opened on ,january #bb1 and the gross proceeds were #a1jfg3 #afs4 7net #gii74 ,the most important works were #8,the ,green ,seat' 7#dj guineas71 #8,the ,stick ,fire' 7#ce guineas71 #8,the ,cherry ,woman' 7#dj guineas71 #8,the little ,go-,cart' 7#cf guineas71 #8,cottages' 7#de guineas71 #8,jack and ,jill' 7#bj guineas71 #8,the ,fable of the ,girl and her ,milk ,pail' 7#dj guineas71 #8,lucy ,locket' 7#cj guineas71 #8,standing for her ,picture' 7#be guineas71 #8,two ,little ,sisters' 7#be guineas71 #8,the ,toy ,horse' 7#be guineas71 #8,belinda' 7#be guineas71 #8,down the ,steps' 7#be guineas71 #8,apple ,trees' 7#ee guineas71 #8,over the ,tea' 7#ce guineas71 #8,a ,spring ,copse' 7#dj guineas71 #8,the ,old ,steps' 7#ce guineas71 #8,under the ,rose ,tree' 7#be guineas71 #8,at a ,garden ,door' 7#ce guineas71 and #8,a ,buttercup ,field' 7#cj74 ,this year she began her connection with ,the ,ladies' ,home ,journal1 published in ,philadelphia1 which1 with its circulation of #gjj1jjj1 did much to enlarge her circle of ,american admirers4 ,the connection lasted through four numbers and proved highly remunerative4 ,thirty pounds was paid her per page for the serial rights only of seven or eight beautiful little pen-and-ink drawings illustrating delightful verses by ,miss ,laura ,e4 ,richards4 ,they were executed in her happiest vein and they not only show no falling off either in invention or execution but an absolute advance in the free use of the pen4 ,the only other published work of this year which calls for mention is the coloured drawing #8,a ,sailor's ,wife' reproduced in the ,december number of ,the ,english ,illustrated ,magazine4 ,it is ambitious in treatment1 but illustrates the artist's limitations1 although much of its failure is due to the crudeness of the colour-printing4 ,the fact is that her genius for drawing for the press had now grown fitful1 and that she felt this herself is proved by her refusal at this time to undertake the illustration of ,messrs4 ,longman's ,reading ,books for elementary schools1 which a few years earlier would have made a very strong appeal to her4 ,doubtless1 too1 her health had much to do with it and disinclined her to bind herself to the dates and exactions which it is incumbent on publishers to set4 ,after two years' absence from the walls of the ,royal ,institute she was now again represented by the portrait of #8,a ,girl1' which was the forerunner of an unbroken series of exhibits until #ahig4 ,on ,february the #bnd1 the little circle at ,frognal was further sadly reduced by the deeply-mourned death of ,mrs4 ,greenaway1 of whose fine and sterling character the reader has caught glimpses in the earlier chapters4 ,the strain of this sorrow coming immediately after the exhaustion consequent upon the exhibition of her pictures1 resulted in some months of broken health1 and it was not until ,may that ,miss ,greenaway found herself again fit for work4 ,soon after her mother's death she wrote3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mr4 ,,ponsonby #ej1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead1 ,n4,w41 #ajth ,feb4 #ahid4 ,dear ,mr4 ,ponsonby--,thank you so much for your kind letter4 ,you and ,lady ,maria have been so ,,kind4 ,i can't tell you ,,how much it has been to me to feel ,i have such friends as you always are to me4 ,we certainly do feel desolate and strange1 but ,i know in time the very dreadful feeling will pass off1 though ,i also know life must be for ever a different feeling1 for ,i have never felt the same since my father died4444 ,i am sorry you also have had a sad loss--,i have seen many notices of it in the ,papers4 ,the longer ,i live the less ,i understand the scheme of life that comprises so much sadness in it4 ,i wish we could understand more4 ,will you tell ,lady ,maria ,i am so looking forward to seeing her8 ,i feel like ,lady ,dorothy1 who once1 when you had gone abroad1 said she was glad you had rainy weather because you should have stayed in ,london4--,yours sincerely1 ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,illustration3 ,,mabel ,,ponsonby4 ,pencil and ,tint4 ,in the possession of the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby4 ,after a visit to ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson at ,rowfant to recuperate her health she wrote3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,lady ,,maria ,,ponsonby #ci1 ,,frognal1 #i ,may #ahid4 ,dear ,lady ,maria ,ponsonby--,i have had you and ,mr4 ,ponsonby so much in my mind for the last two weeks--and ,i feel so much ,i would like to write to you1 but don't you trouble to write to me1 if you are too busy4 ,it is a pleasure to write to you--anyhow4 ,i think ,i feel to my real friends as ,i do to my favourite books--they get into my mind after a separation and ,i am impelled to write to them or read them as the case may be4 ,i think of one of ,mr4 ,locker-,lampson's favourite stories of ,carlyle1 who said to ,mr4 ,allingham--#8,have a care1 ,allingham1 have a care--there's a danger of your making yourself a bit of a bore4' ,these are not quite the words--the original ones are better put4--,i fear that danger as regards myself4 ,i came home from ,rowfant last week4 ,i had a nice time4 ,i think ,i am feeling stronger1 but sometimes ,i do not feel very well1 but of course it is rather a slow process1 and it requires patience1 which quality ,i don't possess4 ,are you coming to ,green ,street this month8 will you allow the bore to come and see you1 as soon as you do1 one afternoon8 ,it will be nice to see you again4 ,i think about you so often4 ,the ,pictures are not much this year--,i mean at the ,new ,gallery and the ,academy1 but ,i've only seen both in a dense crowd so it is hardly fair to say--but the ,modern ,art strikes me as very ,,funny4 ,i would like to go with ,mr4 ,ponsonby to the ,r4,a4 ,i'd like to see the effect on him of certain ,productions--,i am sure you would feel the same 7shall ,i call it lovely delight7 as ,i do--in viewing these works of art4--,i suppose ,i've grown old and old-fashioned--but really you never saw such creatures as disport themselves on these canvases4 ,you go and look1 and let me go with you4 ,will you tell ,mr4 ,ponsonby the garden has been made so tidy that ,i shall venture to take him round it when he next comes to ,hampstead8 ,the woodbine and carnations are alive and look as if they will do well4 ,i am at work again now--my ideas are coming back to me4 ,i feel as if ,i'd been in the earth for the winter and was beginning to wake up4 ,we have such gloomy skies every day1 it spoils the lovely spring look2 if only it would rain and be done with it6 ,you see ,i grumble4 ,it does me good4 ,i do hope you will soon be in town1 and do let me come to tea soon4--,with kind regards to ,mr4 ,ponsonby1 your affectionate ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,and to ,lady ,mayo1 who had again sent her some spring flowers3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,lady ,,mayo ,dear ,lady ,mayo--,what lovely flowers6 ,i thank you so much4 ,there are two of my dearest loves--tulips and that beautiful double white narcissus4 ,but ,i have entirely succumbed to the fascinations of a new beauty1 the lovely greeny white ranunculus1 the pale lilac anemones also4 ,but they are all so lovely and are an immense delight to me4 ,i always rejoice over a new flower4 ,i wish ,i had time to paint them all1 but ,i have not just now for ,i am doing a river scene from my studio window4 ,you will say you do not remember a river there4 ,perhaps1 but ,i will show you the drawing if ,i have the pleasure of seeing you some time4 ,the spring trees change so quickly1 but ,i am going to put your tulips into this very drawing1 where a little girl carries a large bunch of them4 ,the striped ones are so wonderful1 the real old-fashioned ones4 ,they are one of my earliest recollections4 ,i remember walking up a path in my aunt's garden that was two long lines of them1 and ,i was so small that ,i remember bending them down to me to look at their wonderful centres4 ,again thank you very much for the joy you have given me4--,yours sincerely1 ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,illustration3 ,,eileen ,,ponsonby4 ,pencil and ,tint4 ,in the possession of the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby4 ,in the latter part of ,july she paid a visit to ,mr4 ,ruskin and wrote of it3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mr4 ,,ponsonby #ci1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead1 ,n4,w41 #ith ,august #ahid4 ,dear ,mr4 ,ponsonby--,i am only just home from ,coniston2 it has been quite beautiful4 ,i found ,mr4 ,ruskin so much better than ,i expected1 of course not his old self1 yet even at times there really seemed no difference--it has been great happiness--and the country there--as you know--is lovely beyond words4 ,i went to see ,wordsworth's country and his two houses1 ,rydal ,mount and ,dove ,cottage--the ,cottage is so pretty and they are getting back all the old furniture--7protected by strings from the enthusiastic ,americans74 ,i sent you the little plants from the ,brantwood ,garden4 ,i thought it would be of interest to you to have them--that is the pink and the white4 ,the other is a little bit from our garden1 you said you would like to have--,i can give you plenty more if it does not live4 ,will you please give my love to ,lady ,maria--,i meant to have written to her before this1 but ,i really had no moments while ,i was away1 but ,i shall write to her in a day or two before ,i go to ,cromer1 where ,i think ,i am going next week4 ,i am looking forward to ,bournemouth1 it is always such a happy time for me--it is very close and warm here4 ,i hoped ,i should by now have felt stronger than ,i do--but ,i daresay it takes time4--,yours sincerely1 ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,on ,october #afth1 she writes to ,lady ,maria ,ponsonby3-- ,tell ,mr4 ,ponsonby ,i ,,hate ,beardsley more than ever4 ,it is the ,private ,view of the ,portrait ,painters at the ,new ,gallery to-morrow4 #bast ,oct4 ,all these days ago and no letter finished--not a moment of time have ,i had4 ,some of the ,portrait ,painters have been slightly up to games4 ,indeed ,i'm rather inclined to think a ,portrait ,exhibition is slightly trying4 ,the different expressions give rather the feeling of what children call making faces4 ,and then there are the different schools4 ,some you look at through a hazy mist4 ,others confront you in deadly black and ugliness4 ,i can't somehow help feeling a great deal of ,funniness whenever ,i now visit an exhibition of ,pictures4 ,by ,november #ast she is again at work and writes to ,ruskin3-- ,i have been drawing a baby six months old this morning4 ,i wished for the back of its head1 but ,i proved so fascinating1 it would only gaze at me1 with a stony stare4 ,the drawing did not prosper--but the baby was a dear4 ,and on ,nov4 #bi this child of forty-eight writes of the #8precocious woman of thirteen' 7as quaintly alleged7 of whom all the world was then talking3#eg-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,i finished the first volume of ,marie ,bashkirtseff4 ,have you ever read it8 ,i think her odious--simply--but the book is wonderful in a way1 so vivid1 and though you--or rather ,i--hate her you feel she must be clever4 ,you ought to read it if you have never done so4 ,johnny won't see it is clever because he hates her1 but ,i dislike her but feel she is clever4 ,it is a study of supreme vanity1 making yourself the centre of all things4 ,it is queer to be ambitious in that way4 ,you can't feel it a noble ambition--very much the reverse4 ,she is grown up at thirteen when she ought to be having the most beautiful child's thoughts4 ,i feel it quite dreadful to miss that happy time out of your life4 ,perhaps one prefers one thing1 one another4 ,i hated to be grown-up1 and cried when ,i had my first long dress1 but ,i know many long to be grown-up1 but even that longing is childish--but this unfortunate girl was grown-up without knowing it4 ,still1 her history does affect me1 ,i keep thinking about her4 ,she is so strange--so desperately worldly1 and ,i think so cruel--because she was so vain4 ,i wonder if you have ever read it4 ,the year #ahid1 which had begun so sadly with the death of ,mrs4 ,greenaway1 had happily in store for ,kate the beginning of one of her rare and highly valued intimacies4 ,the acquaintanceship1 which soon ripened into friendship and then into warm affection1 began with a written request in ,may for the loan of some of her pictures for an ,exhibition in ,southwark4 ,the writer was ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 to whom a little later on she was personally introduced by a common friend4 ,from that time forward the two ladies1 the old and the young1 were much in each other's company at #8private views' and other ceremonies1 and the fact that her friend was tall and slim beyond the average and ,kate as noticeably short and stout1 not only drew attention to their companionship but served as a constant text for the exercise of ,kate's humorous invention4 ,their correspondence by letter was incessant and ,miss ,greenaway's pencil was generally requisitioned to give an added note of piquancy and fancy to her written communications4 ,many of these little thumb-nail sketches1 through ,miss ,dickinson's kindness1 are reproduced in this volume1 together with numerous extracts from the letters4 ,one note there is upon which ,kate is for ever harping1 an underlying fear which is for ever haunting her4 ,as we know she was slow at making friendships1 but when they were made they became an essential feature of her existence1 and she was in constant terror lest they should be lost4 #8,don't begin to find me very dull--don't begin not to want me4 ,yet you can't help it if you do4 ,i suppose ,i am so slow and you are so quick'--is but one amongst innumerable examples of the little panics into which she would causelessly fall4 ,illustration3 ,,brother ,,and ,,sister4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,charles ,p4 ,johnson1 ,esq4 ,into one other essential characteristic of hers we obtain some insight in these letters4 ,that ,kate held no very definite or orthodox religious opinions1 although she had a strong religious instinct1 is hinted at in many of her letters to ,ruskin and others4 ,but it is only from her letters to ,miss ,dickinson that we are able to gather anything positive on a subject upon which in conversation her natural reserve restrained her from enlarging4 ,on this last matter she writes3--#8,i am such a reserved person4 ,you tell everything to everybody and ,i can't4 ,there's numbers of things ,i often long to say to you but ,i do not dare--and yet you are the one person in the world ,i'd like to talk about them with4' ,to a friend she said one day3--#8,i am very religious though people may not think it1 but it is in my own way1' and the following extracts from letters to ,miss ,dickinson give us some idea of what that way was3-- ,march #bb1 #ahif4 ,you can go into a beautiful new country if you stand under a large apple tree and look up to the blue sky through the white flowers--to go to this scented land is an experience4 ,i suppose ,i went to it very young before ,i could really remember and that is why ,i have such a wild delight in cowslips and apple-blossom--they always give me the same strange feeling of trying to remember1 as if ,i had known them in a former world4 ,i always feel ,wordsworth must have felt that a little too--when he wrote the #8,intimations of ,immortality'--,i mean the trying to remember4 ,it's such a beautiful world1 especially in the spring4 ,it's a pity it's so sad also4 ,i often reproach the plan of it4 ,it seems as if some less painful and repulsive end could have been found for its poor helpless inhabitants--considering the wonderfulness of it all4--,,well1 it isn't the least use troubling4 ,april #bi1 #ahig4 ,i think ,death is the one thing ,i can't reconcile with a ,god4 ,after such wonderful life1 it seems such a miserable ending--to go out of life with pain4 ,why need it be8 ,july #h1 #ahif4 ,you think1 ,i know1 that people are well off when they leave this world1 but then there's the uncertain other--or nothing--it is a mystery ,i wish we had known more about4 ,it feels to me so strange beyond anything ,i can think1 to be able to believe in any of the known religions4 ,yet how beautiful if you but could4 ,fancy feeling yourself saved--as they say1 set apart to have a great reward4 ,for what8 ,those poor little bits of sacrifice--while many and many an unregenerate one is making such big ones--but isn't to go to heaven8 ,july #aj1 #ahif4 ,did you ever believe at all in religion1 ,i mean did you ever believe it as the ,bible gives it8 ,i never did--it's so queer4--,why1 one tries to be good simply because you must--are so unhappy if you don't4--,a conscience is a troublesome thing at times4 ,i woke up at #d o'clock this morning and ,i spent the time feeling what a nothing ,i was1 and wishing ,i was so very different4 ,then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend1 saying ,i was so this1 so that--it made me really cry1 ,i was so grateful4 ,dec4 #ac1 #ahif4 ,i could never believe as long as ,i can remember--yet ,i went through all sorts of religious phases of my own--times when ,i used to write down yes or no in a little book each night as to whether ,i had done all ,i thought right in the day or not--oh1 and lots of things--but ,i have never believed--in that religion--though ,i do in my own4 ,a woman once said to me1 #8,any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves1'--and it is so4 ,she1 curiously1 was a clergyman's wife4 ,june #ad1 #ahig4 ,i wish there was no death4 ,it's so horrible1 things having to be killed for us to eat them--it feels so wicked4 ,yet we have to do it--or die ourselves4 ,these are the sort of things that make you doubt of a future life4 ,there's some people would say animals have no souls--but they have--some sort4444 ,don't you wish you knew if you had got an eternal soul or not8 ,people believe half things in such a funny way1 and mix up right and wrong--so that ,i am so often nearly thinking1 is there a right and wrong--only ,i know there is--but ,i would like it decided once for all what is right and what is wrong4 ,nov4 #c1 #ahig4 ,i'm depressed too by the horrid tales about people4 ,you don't know how miserable it makes me--,i'm so sorry--it takes all the joy out of things4 ,goodness is so beautiful and so much best4 ,i hate narrow people who would take all the beauty and gaiety from the world4 ,i love all that1 but ,i hate wickedness4 ,oh1 it is such a pity--and the things people say are horrid4 ,i wish they would not tell me4 ,in her correspondence with ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 ,kate's spirits would sometimes overflow into sketches of a character more broadly comic than the public generally has had any example of4 ,thus1 during the hot ,july of #ahif1 she dashes off a sketch of herself enjoying the #8bliss' of a shower from a watering-can1 and writes3-- ,what are you doing in this tropical heat--,i'm so hot4 ,i'm crimson when ,i set out--and purple when ,i get there--oh1 everywhere4 ,out in the garden--the sun blazes on me4444 ,on the #ajth ,december she accounts for her temporary seclusion by a sketch of herself as a solitary hermit withdrawn from the far-off world2 and a month later1 still in the comic mood1 she pictures herself in the throes of composition1 and writes in answer to her friend's remark upon her verses3 #8,dear' 7her method of addressing well-loved intimates1 omitting their names73-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,miss ,,violet ,,dickinson ,dear4 ,yes it is a fine thing to have a friend who writes lovely poems 4448 ,across the lonely desert grand1 ,across the yellow ridged sand ,the lurid sunset filled the land ,with desolate despair4 ,and after a vigorous thumb-nail sketch of the said desert1 she adds3-- ,you can't do as good as that--besides you can't make a picter4 ,the year #ahie1 which marks ,kate's last appearance in the ,royal ,academy exhibitions1 with a #8,baby ,boy1' also found her represented at the ,liverpool ,exhibition1 and at the ,royal ,institute of ,painters in ,water-,colours by #8,gleaners going ,home1' #8,girl and ,two ,children1' #8,little ,girl in ,red1' and #8,taking a ,nosegay4' ,otherwise the year was uneventful save for her now one-sided correspondence with ,ruskin1 from which we take the following letters and extracts4 ,they present us with intimate glimpses of her artistic and literary tastes2 her hatred of change and the confusion of life2 her discontent with her work and her determination to do better in the future2 her love of space2 her artistic methods2 her views upon the ,impressionist tendency of art2 and last1 but not in her eyes less important1 extracts from ,rover's biography4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson 7showing #8,k4 ,g4' in a comic vein74 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson 7showing #8,k4 ,g4' in a humorous mood74 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson4 7,an example of #8,k4 ,g4's' spirit of caricature47 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,bracken ,,gatherers4 ,from the water-colour drawing in the possession of the ,hon4 ,mrs4 ,w4 ,le ,poer ,trench4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin #ci1 ,,frognal1 ,the ,new ,year1 #ahie4 444 ,i have been to the ,venetian ,exhibition#eh--;but ,i have not seen it well yet4 ,the crowds of people prevented4 444 ,there are some beautiful ,ladies' ,portraits in such lovely dresses and their hair done into those big rolls all round their faces4 ,i was so impressed by two heads by ,giorgione--one a ,shepherd with a ,flute1#ei so lovely1 and ,portrait of a ,lady ,professor of ,bologna--the colour is so beautiful 7and the way they are painted74 ,i think ,i will tell you about the beautiful ,ladies next time--because ,i have forgotten entirely the most beautiful ,lady's name#fj--though ,i remember her so well4 ,she is dark and looks at you rather timidly and rather frightened--she has a curious rolled thing round her head1 ,i can't tell what it is made of--little curls of ribbon perhaps and here and there little white bows4 ,she has a background of white flowers1 but ,i will tell you more of her next time4 ,and ,christmas is over and it is nearly the ,new ,year--,i fear ,i am glad ,christmas is over for ,i want some lighter days4 ,i don't like getting up in the morning when the moon is shining--and the stars are still about4 ,i see the sun rise as ,i have my breakfast1 pale and cold--but it is very nice to see the daylight come4 ,i am finishing ,general ,marbot3 ,it is a truly wonderful book1 it seems hardly possible people could be so brave--as they are--and most certainly as ,i could not be--,i certainly hope ,england may never be invaded in my time--too fearful4 ,how ,i wish ,i could have come in to tea with you on ,new ,year's ,day4 ,suppose there was a little tap at your study door--and ,i came in carrying a lovely ,hot ,muffin--would you turn me out1 or allow me to sit down by your fire and enjoy myself8 ,did ,i tell you ,eddie had come home 7from ,plauen in ,germany7 for ,christmas--so all my time is taken up in making it a merry time4 ,i had them all to tea and he danced and sang ,nursery ,rhymes and ,looby ,loo4 ,do you know that8 it is so pretty4 ,and then ,i think you would have liked to have seen my sister's little girl and little boy dance the ,barn ,dance--,i would like to paint it--she is very pretty1 and so is the little boy4 ,to-morrow we all go to ,olympia--and on ,wednesday to ,drury ,lane--on ,thursday ,i have another tea with more children--,saturday is the sad day he has to go back again4 ,all the little ,correggio curls are gone now4 ,new ,year's ,day was my ,mother's ,birthday1 so ,i shall be with no one on that day--except ,i shall think of the study and you at #e o'clock1 and think ,i am coming to tea there4 ,it is shivery--ice everywhere--,how much ,i wish things would not change so much--so soon--so often--,i can never understand the plan of life at all1 it is all so strange--try which way you will to think it out--it all seems of no use--yet you go on trying for this--for that--really for some mysterious end--you don't know4 444 ,i hope you will have a very very ,happy ,year1 and have beautiful days1 and lots of sunshine--and for myself ,i will wish that ,i may see you again before it is ended4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,feb4 #aj1 #ahie4 ,did you ever in your life read one of ,george ,meredith's novels8 it requires you to be in an angelic frame of mind or else it is that sort of worry--trying to make out what he means--for it isn't encouraging while he describes all his people laughing at a brilliant joke1 for you to be unable to see the drift of it4 ,whatever you do don't read ,lord ,ormont and his ,aminta4 ,it all comes of my being sentimental and romantic4 ,the title was so lovely1 but don't you be induced by any means to begin it4 ,but if you do want to read something that is uncommonly nice get ,passages from some ,memoirs by ,mrs4 ,ritchie and read about the children's party at ,charles ,dickens'1 about ,carlyle and ,mrs4 ,carlyle1 about her recollections of her childish days in ,paris1 her remembrance of ,leech1 of ,charlotte ,bront--it is all so nice1 so kind1 so clever4 ,i hear from ,mr4 ,locker-,lampson that there is a real new poet1 brand new2 he says his name is ,davidson and he has written a poem called ,the ,ballad of a ,nun4 ,that's all ,i know of it for ,i have not read it yet4 ,perhaps ,i shan't think him a poet4 ,i fear ,i like them of the sort3-- ,when daisies pied and violets blue ,and lady-smocks all silver-white ,and all the shepherd swains shall sing ,for thy delight each ,may morning4 ,how the beautiful words come into your mind--and then it is spring and you forget it is snowing outside and the wind whirling the wreaths of snow about4 ,it is very ,arctic snow1 ,i never saw such lovely little crystals4444 ,do you know1 ,i had made up my mind to send you a real valentine--and ,i invented all1 just how it was all to go--then ,i had a horrid cold and could only think how nice to go to sleep1 so the poor valentine never got done4 ,i was very sorry but it could not be helped4 ,and ,i had also a good deal to do to my ,institute drawings1 which are very bad4 ,so perhaps it is as well ,i had the cold1 only it was all so nicely ready4 ,i have got five bad drawings--#8,gleaners going ,home1' #8,a ,little ,girl in ,red1' #8,a ,girl nursing a ,baby1' #8,another ,little ,girl and a ,green ,cradle1' and #8,a ,girl walking with two ,little ,children4' ,the #8,gleaners' is1 ,i think1 the best--,i fear you would say of a bad lot4 ,never mind1 ,i'm going to begin beautiful things directly ,i can get rid of these--which is next ,tuesday--but ,i always think they are going to be beautiful when ,i begin1 then ,i generally get to hate them before they are done4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,nov4 #aa1 #ahie4 ,i am still in a state of great perplexity as to what work to do and as to what to agree to about books4 ,there is no ,almanack this year4 ,now they want to do it again and ,i find it hard to decide if ,i will or not--partly because ,i do not make up my mind about what ,i want to do in other ways4 ,but often when ,i feel like this ,i wait1 and an inspiration comes4 ,some beautiful picture or drawing will make me long to do something4 ,the worst of it is1 ,i ought always to do everything the moment it suggests itself1 or very likely by the time ,i go to do it the spirit of it has vanished4 ,i do the technical part of painting so badly1 and every one else seems to do it so well4 ,i have no settled way of working--,i am always trying this or that4 ,that is why ,i get on better when ,i am doing a cottage because ,i naturally do just what ,i see and do not think of the way to do it at all4 ,does this all bore you or interest you8 ,i am so sorry ,i can't draw when ,i am with you and can't do drawings you like much now4 ,one reason is ,i am never as strong as ,i was and ,i can't bear the strain4 ,it is a considerable one to do a large pencil drawing of that sort4 ,it wants to be so fresh and spontaneous--if it is rubbed out at all it is spoiled4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,nov4 #cjth1 #ahie4 ,you will be grieved to hear that ,rover yesterday had a fearful fight with his always enemy1 the yellow dog1 a truly amiable deer-hound2 why ,rover's enemy we can't tell4 ,the fight resulted in a real black eye for ,rover1 who could not see out of it all yesterday4 ,this morning it is better and he has been standing on his hind legs looking out of the window the last half-hour--liking to look1 as he can see again this morning1 but also ,i fear hoping his enemy may pass by and he may renew the fight4 ,the yellow dog has sometimes made overtures of friendship but ,rover remains obdurate4 ,i fear he likes an enemy--it offers an agreeable excitement4444 ,the truth of ,rover's enmity for the great yellow dog is that one day his tail got caught in the gate1 which was a sight not to be resisted by the previously friendly and amiable yellow dog1 who at once set teeth in it4 ,rover was deeply offended at the time1 and after brooding awhile over his grievance determined on action4 ,thus the strained relations of a few days developed into hostilities1 thereafter constantly renewed4 ,dec4 #c4 ,some cows have come into the field opposite which have now entirely absorbed ,rover's interest4 ,he remains fixed at the dining-room window gazing upon them with a fixed gaze1 as much as to say1 #8,what are these extraordinary large quiet animals1 who don't run about and bark8' ,illustration3 ,a ,,surrey ,,cottage4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,alfred ,emmott1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,dec4 #i1 #ahie4 ,i am still doing all sorts of drawing--pencil ones with colour--,i think them rather pretty4 ,i wish you would like a new sort--a little--,i seem to want to put in shade so much more than ,i used to4 ,i have got to love the making out of form by shade--the softness of it4 ,i love things soft and beautiful--not angular and hard as it is the fashion to like them now4 ,to be an impressionist opens a good wide space for leaving a good deal that is difficult to do undone--at least so it seems to me4 ,it is so easy to begin1 so difficult to finish4 ,illustration3 ,a ,,sketch ,,of ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,model1 ,,mary4 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,dec4 #i1 #ahie4 ,i have been reading ,mrs4 ,thrale's letters1 which have interested me very much4 ,it must have been a mixed pleasure having ,johnson for a friend4 ,yet1 how every one liked him though he was so troublesome6 ,i must say ,i should have found it hard work to sit up till four o'clock in the morning1 talking and pouring out tea6 ,think of the hours6 and they had their dinner at four o'clock in the afternoon4 ,mrs4 ,thrale must have been the most good-natured person in the world1 indeed ,i can't help feeling people were not very grateful to her4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,dec4 #af1 #ahie4 ,i am reading a horrid book by a man with a horrid face4 ,i once saw the author1 and ,i said1 #8,who is that loathsome man8'--,well1 ,i read no more of his books--that's settled4 ,,chapter ,,xiii #ahif-ahig ,,the ,,last ,,of ,,the ,,almanacks--,,opinions ,,on ,,books1 ,,pictures1 ,,the ,,new ,,woman1 ,,and ,,eternal ,,man--,,her ,,defence ,,of ,,ruskin4 ,by way of accentuating the uneventfulness of ,miss ,greenaway's quiet life apart from her art1 it is perhaps worthy of notice that the year #ahif found her staying at a hotel for only the second time in her life1 the occasion being a visit to ,miss ,dorothy ,stanley at ,southwold shortly before that lady's marriage to ,mr4 ,allhusen1 ,m4,p4 ,to ,kate the most noteworthy events of this year were her presence at ,lord ,leighton's funeral at ,st4 ,paul's on ,february #bnd2 the purchase of one of her drawings by ,lady ,dorothy ,nevill as a wedding present for the ,princess ,maud of ,wales2 a single exhibit1 #8,little ,bo-,peep1' at the ,royal ,institute2 and one of her rare public appearances to give away ,mr4 ,ruskin's gold cross and chain to the ,may ,queen of the year 7by reason of her popularity among her fellow-pupils7 at the ,may-day celebration at ,whitelands ,college1 ,chelsea4 ,he had asked her once before1 through ,mrs4 ,severn1 but she had begged hard to be excused3-- #ej1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead1 ,n4,w41 ,wednesday4 ,my dearest ,joanie--,i'm afraid--and feel ,i ought not to say yes4 ,first place1 ,i have been so unwell and get so tired4444 ,i'm afraid it would be exciting to me4 ,also ,i can't or ought not to spare the morning4 ,if it were the afternoon it would make a difference4 ,i don't like saying no1 as you and he ,mr4 ,ruskin wish it--but if you could find a nice somebody else1 ,i'd go next year if ,i were in ,london4 ,you know ,i'm not fitted for ,public ,posts4444 ,so do be dear--get some one else to give the cross4444 ,good-bye1 dear ,joanie1 don't think me hateful or anything horrid--and do do go to the ,r4,a4 and look out for--,your very loving1 ,,katie4 ,beyond these incidents the interest of the year is confined to her letters4 ,she always had on hand for ,ruskin one epistle1 to which she would sit down at any odd moment between meals1 exercise1 and work1 despatching it as soon as the end of the sheet was reached4 ,illustration3 ,,going ,,to ,,the ,,post4 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,as usual these letters are full of references to what she is painting and reading1 of her views of life and religion1 of her likes and dislikes in art1 of her love of flowers1 of ,rover1 and of little touches of self-revelation4 ,here and there we find a bit of keen observation1 and once a half-humorous1 half-wistful protest against the comparative homeliness of her appearance4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,jan4 #e1 #ahif4 ,i have been reading a curious book called ,the ,wonderful ,visit4#fa ,a man goes out to shoot a strange bird1 and shoots instead--an ,angel6--,somehow the author does manage to make you feel the angel very beautiful and superior to all about him1 but of course it is all unreal1 and his idea of heaven doesn't fit in with mine4 ,i say with mine1 and ,i haven't an idea4 ,i have often tried to think out what ,i would like it to be like1 and ,i never can1 for there is always something does not fit in4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,jan4 #bb1 #ahif4 ,do you like the sound of things in the streets8 ,they want to get up a society to suppress the noises--they asked me to belong and seemed to think it very funny when ,i said ,i liked them2 what do you think8 ,i feel so cheerful when ,i hear an organ playing nice lively tunes4 ,i love a band4 ,i like seeing the ,salvation ,army 7though ,i should1 ,i fear1 be angry if ,i lived near the sound of their preaching7 marching along and singing4 ,i like the sound of the muffin bell1 for ,i seem again a little girl coming home from school in the winter afternoons4 ,i don't like the beggars because ,i feel too much pain to think of them so destitute1 but if ,i could believe they got pennies enough ,i could like them4 ,i like the flower-sellers1 and the fruit stalls1 and the sound of church bells4 ,so what could ,i say8 ,i should not like silence always4 ,it is often when ,i have had enough silence ,i go into the cheerful streets and find it a rest4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin #ci1 ,,frognal1 #bi ,jan4 #ahif4 444 ,i am so very sorry ,leighton is dead--,i did not know him1 ,i never talked to him--yet ,i am so sorry4 ,he seemed always to me one of the few who cared for real ,beauty4 ,now it is all something new--something startling1 but if it is beautiful does not matter4 ,all the same there seems some real sorrow that ,leighton is dead4444 ,i have got a very interesting book about ,mrs4 ,montague--,mrs4 ,thrale's ,mrs4 ,montague1 ,i mean4 ,i seem to have known her slightly so long1 but not to have known anything really as to who she was and what she did4 ,i think she must have been quite delightful4 ,what a lovely thing a purple crocus is4 ,i told you about a book1 the ,midsummer ,night's ,dream1 illustrated by ,anning ,bell4#fb ,he has done little crocuses all over the grass and ,i think them so pretty4 ,i shall draw some when they come up--but the unkind little sparrows peck them to bits in our garden directly they open4 ,don't you call that a bad return for giving them bread all their lives8--,if ,i were talking to you1 you'd say ,,no to tease me--,i know you would4 ,but they ,,are bad sparrows truly--because they peck the almond blossoms in just the same way4 ,johnny is so indignant and comes to me and says--#8,look what your sparrows are doing6'--,my sparrows8 ,there was a bad thrush once lived in the garden1 a robber thrush1 who came to a bad end4 ,now if there are no dreadful frosts there will be a great bank of wallflowers by and by4 ,only once since we have lived here have they succeeded in living well through the winter4 ,mrs4 ,docksey sent me such pretty flowers yesterday and a dear little pot to hold them1 violets and snowdrops--wasn't it very kind of her8 ,here comes a little sketch of a fairy flying across the moon4 ,that's because ,i have been looking at the old ,midsummer ,night's ,dream with ,kenny ,meadows' drawings4 ,i ,,do like them1 for they are really fairylike4 ,as a very little child they were my ,sunday evenings' amusement whilst my mother and father read4 ,my eldest sister played and sang4 ,i got to know all the plays when ,i was very little indeed from the pictures4 ,i think the names of the ,italian towns got their great charm in my mind from this time1 mixed up with so much of the moonlight he puts into them4 ,the sound of ,verona--,padua--,venice--what beautiful sounding names he got for his plays1 didn't he8--but then1 he makes that charm over everything4 ,the spring flowers in his hands are nearly as beautiful as themselves1 and the girls' names--,viola--,olivia--,perdita4 ,oh dear6 ,things are so beautiful and wonderful1 you feel there must be another life where you will see more--hear more--and know more4 ,all of it cannot die4 ,i hope you get out every day for nice walks4 ,though ,i do not wish time away ,i am glad this is ,february1 the first spring month4 ,i wonder what you read now4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,feb4 #ah1 #ahif4 ,did you ever read ,peter ,ibbetson1 the first book ,mr4 du ,maurier wrote8 ,i am reading it now4 ,i think it absolutely beautiful--it affects me so much4 ,i have always liked ,mr4 du ,maurier1 but to think there was all this1 and one didn't know it4 ,i feel as if ,i had all this time been doing him a great injustice--not to know4 ,it is such a wonderful thing to have thought of it all--it is so unworldly--such a beautiful idea--an exquisite fancy4 ,i long to tell him how much ,i love it4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,pink ,,sash4 #8,a baby with pink sash and pink ribbons4' ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,miss ,greenaway was also a great admirer of du ,maurier as a black-and-white artist1 and after his death she wrote to ,miss ,dickinson3-- ,all the du ,maurier drawings are now at the ,fine ,art ,society--,i am very sorry to think there will be no more--no more ,mrs4 ,ponsonby de ,tomkins4 ,he told me he got so fond of her in the end1 he could not let the retribution fall upon her that he intended to finish her up with4 ,i doubt if ,punch ever gets his like again2 and he was such a nice man4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,feb4 #be1 #ahif4 ,i wonder if you ever see any illustrations of ,aubrey ,beardsley's and what do you think of them8 ,i would like to know4 ,a great many people are now what they call modern4 ,when ,i state my likes and dislikes they tell me ,i am not modern1 so ,i suppose ,i'm not--advanced4 ,that is why1 ,i suppose1 ,i see some of the new pictures as looking so very funny4 ,you must not like ,leighton now1 or ,millais1 and ,i don't know how much longer ,i'm to be allowed to like ,burne-,jones4 ,oh dear6 ,i believe ,i shall ever think a face should look like a face1 and a beautiful arm like a beautiful arm--not that ,i can do it--the great pity ,i can't4 ,why1 if ,i could1 they should have visions4 ,sometimes ,i almost wish ,i were shut up by myself with nothing to do but to paint--only ,i'm so dependent on people's affection4 ,i'm not lonely by myself but ,i want the people ,i like very much sometimes4 ,i feel ,i shall not do anything of what ,i could wish in my life4 ,isn't it hard sometimes when you have felt the beauty of something in a certain way and have done it so and no one you show it to seems to see it at all4 ,but ,i suppose if it is really a good thing you have done that1 after years1 some one does feel it1 while if it is not worth finding out it goes into oblivion--so ,time sifts it all out4 ,such is not my fate1 for ,i unfortunately can only think of all the beautiful things and have not the skill to do them4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,march #b1 #ahif4 ,the almond buds are all pink1 but ,i don't want them out till there are some nice little white daisies beneath them4 ,do you remember the little poem on the daisy by ,jane or ,ann ,taylor8 ,it is one of the earliest remembrances with me2 my mother used to say it to us so much4 ,little lady1 as you pass ,lightly o'er the tender grass1 ,step about but do not tread ,on my meek and lowly head2 ,for ,i always seem to say1 ,surely1 ,winter's gone away4 ,now1 after saying ,i remember it1 ,i find ,i don't1 for that is the last verse--and ,i know part of it goes3-- ,for my head is covered flat ,with a white and yellow hat4 ,her letters to ,miss ,dickinson too are full of her garden4 ,two or three extracts must suffice4 ,in ,february3-- ,i've had a deep disappointment to-day4 ,some one told me of a nice old gardener who wanted a little more work4 ,i thought he would just do for us so ,i wrote1 and when he called1 instead of the old man there stood a gorgeous young one in a gorgeous white tie4 ,my heart sank4--,he began3-- #8,path wants gravelling1 ,grass wants seeding1 ,roses want pruning1 ,trees want cutting1 ,everything wants rolling1 ,everything wants nailing up4' ,a nice idea6 my cherished garden made the exact facsimile of every one in ,frognal4 ,i found myself composing the note that should dismiss him later on4 ,nothing should induce me to consent to such desecration4 ,a month later she returns to the subject3-- ,i can really boast with truth that we have larger and more varied weeds in our garden than you have in yours--in fact1 our garden has forgotten that it is a garden and is trying to be a field again4 ,and on ,april #a3-- ,it is a ,fool's ,day--this year snowing so hard--making such a mistake in the time of year--,all the poor flowers wondering what's up4 ,how ,i hate it4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,march #aa1 #ahif4 ,i do not have much to tell you about dear ,rover4 ,he has not been very funny lately4 ,he can't fight--in the muzzle4 ,he tries to but the other dogs don't see it4 ,johnny always insists the cause of the fights is that ,rover boasts of all the superior things he gets here1 and the other dogs can't stand it4 ,he says1 #8,i have a mutton chop for my dinner'--and what can the other dog say8 except that perhaps he partakes of the bone of one1 or a paltry dog-biscuit1 while ,rover revels in beefsteak--beefsteak pie1 pork pie1 and rabbit4 ,illustration3 #8,k4 ,g4' ,,worried ,,by ,a ,,stray ,,puppy4 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,march #ahif4 ,how funny it is1 the different ways different people feel you ought to work6 and people who1 you feel1 should know4 ,one man said1 #8,now1 what ,i would like to see is all these things done life size6' ,another comes back as if he had quite a weight on his mind to say he feels he must tell me how much he feels ,i ought to etch1 so that my own original work was kept4 ,some one else wants me always to do small things2 some one else1 landscapes1--so it goes on4 ,the man with the donkey who tried to please everybody is nothing to it6 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,hon4 ,,mrs4 ,,sutton ,,nelthorpe ,good ,friday1 #ahif4 ,i was given quite the wrong sort of body to live in1 ,i am sure4 ,i ought to have been taller1 slimmer1 and at any rate passably good-looking1 so that my soul might have taken flights1 my fancy might have expanded4 ,now1 if ,i make a lovely hat with artistic turns and twists in it1 see what ,i look like6 ,i see myself then as ,i see others in the trains and omnibuses with things sticking up over one eye4 ,i say1 ,ah1 there goes me6 ,i do laugh often1 as ,i look4 ,in something of the same strain she writes to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson3-- ,the beautiful ,lady looked too lovely for anything yesterday in a pale green bonnet1 a purple velvet and sable cloak and a black satin dress4 ,i do in a way envy their riches--,i could have such beautiful things1 you would not know #ci1 ,frognal4 ,you'd come into such a dream of beauty1 and the garden too1 such a sight would meet your eyes1 pots and tubs of lovely flowers all over4 ,in respect of ,miss ,greenaway's indifference to fine clothes for herself ,mrs4 ,loftie points out how curious it was #8that with her delicate taste in dressing her subjects she did not know how or did not take the trouble to make the best of herself4' ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,july #i1 #ahif4 ,i saw two little children in an omnibus yesterday--two little girls4 ,i was so much taken with their faces--they had such small eyes but exactly the shape of some ,italian ones4 ,i seemed to know every line as ,i had seen it in carved ,italian faces--it was so beautifully formed1 all the eyelid round the eye4444 ,i did long to ask their mother to let me draw them4 ,i could have done them with such joy4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,lady ,,maria ,,ponsonby ,july #ab1 #ahif4 ,i can never define what art really is--in painting1 ,i mean4 ,it isn't realism1 it isn't all imagination1 it's a queer giving something to nature that is possible for nature to have1 but always has not--at least that's my idea4 ,it's what ,burne-,jones does when he twists those roses all about his people in the ,briar ,rose4 ,they don't often grow like that1 but they could1 and it's a great comfort to like such things1 at least ,i find it so4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,aug4 #ac1 #ahif4 ,i have not had a nice book this week4 ,i read ,george ,fox1 the ,quaker1 the other day4 ,he was very wonderful1 but some things they make a stand for seem hardly worth it1 like keeping their hats on4 ,but perhaps that is me in fault1 for ,i don't think ,i am at all regulated by ,forms2 they don't ever feel to me to matter3 ,i don't feel my life gets much shaped by them--but then perhaps it would be better for me if it did6 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,oct4 #ba1 #ahif4 ,the colours are beautiful this year4 ,here1 the ,heath looks wonderful1 it is all so brilliant--red orange1 emerald green1 ,rossetti's green2 it always makes me think of ,rossetti4 ,i see the colour he tried for1 and how difficult it is6 ,you can't think what colours to paint it with because it always looks so cold when it is done--not a bit like the real colour4 ,i despair over grass1 ,i can't do it6 ,i don't know what it is2 ,i don't know what blue to use--or what yellow4 ,i'm so longing to try more body-colour4 ,it's a curious thing everybody runs it down--yet--all the great water-colour people 7the modern ones7 have used it--,w4 ,hunt1 ,walker1 ,pinwell1 ,rossetti1 ,burne-,jones1 ,herkomer4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,oct4 #bh1 #ahif4 ,i have not seen any one or been anywhere so there is nothing to tell you about4 ,yes1 ,i did go out to lunch last ,sunday and sat next to an unenthusiastic young architect4 ,i thought this--,am ,i so dull1 or is he dull8 ,it felt very depressing4 ,i don't mind shy persons if they will only kindle up when you talk to them--often at first ,i do not get on with people 7especially men71 but in a little while generally things take a turn4 ,i suppose ,i am very shy1 really1 yet when they are quite the right people ,i meet ,i am not so at all4 ,i don't think you thought me so1 did you8 ,i know ,i did not feel so1 though before you came ,i thought so much of your coming it got to be really a pain1 and ,i said ,i almost wish he was not coming4 ,but then the first moment ,i saw you1 ,i was glad--so glad4 ,how different everything is when you are with the right people6 ,when they are wrong they make me so tired4 ,some people think this so arrogant--,i never can see why--,i should never mind it at all1 or never do mind if people don't find me to their taste1 and leave me alone4 ,i think it's far more simple and right1 and better so4 ,i don't feel what ,i think is best or right1 at least of course ,i do think so4 ,a lady said to me the other day1 #8,we all do so many things we know are wrong4' ,do we8 ,that seems to me a cowardly way to live4 ,surely we do what we think right however mistaken we may be4 ,why go through those struggles with your conscience8 why accept the sacrifice for yourself1 the denial of your wishes1 and yet think yourself a sinner8 ,no1 ,i can't see it6 though ,i've often tried1 because people have1 as ,i said1 seemed to think it arrogant--but ,i have never been able to see it1 it don't seem to me to be true4 ,if you did what you thought right1 you did right--and there's an end of it2 ,i can't think myself wrong but ,i can thank what great ,power there is that ,i am led to do what ,i consider right4 ,there6 there's a dull long talk6 ,what put all that into my head to talk about1 to you8 ,is it rather like ,harry and ,lucy grown up8 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson4 ,the year #ahig saw the last of the ,almanacks4 ,the later issues had been so unsuccessful that ,routledge ,sons had discontinued their publication4 ,this year1 as has been said1 another publisher attempted their revival1 but the demand had ceased and the series was abandoned for good and all4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,peacock ,,girl4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans was still the middleman between her and the public1 that is to say1 he was the engraver and the responsible man in the enterprise1 and it is impossible to estimate even approximately by how much her popularity had been enhanced by his excellent engraving and his usually excellent printing4 ,some idea of the extent of their partnership may be gathered from the fact that in the twenty years since #ahgh there had issued from the press in book form alone #icb1ajj copies of their joint productions4 ,how far this enormous number might be increased by ,christmas cards and independent designs for magazines it would be useless even to hazard a guess4 ,this year ,miss ,greenaway contributed for the last time to the ,royal ,institute2 she sent #8,girl in ,hat and ,feathers' and #8,two ,little ,girls in a ,garden1' but her most important work consisted of commissions from ,mr4 ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,m4,p41 to paint a portrait of his little daughter ,vera1 and to design #8processions' for the decoration of his nurseries4 ,mr4 ,samuel is also the possessor1 besides many other drawings1 of her original designs for ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mr4 ,,stuart ,m4 ,,samuel #ac ,ap4 #ahif4 ,i cannot tell how much a drawing of your little girl would be4 ,it depends on the sort of drawing you want4 ,a small water-colour would be #be--;a little girl like a book drawing #aj4 ,i can only do certain kinds of book-plates1 nothing heraldic4 ,i do not think ,i could do a book-plate to be sure it was a portrait4 ,an ordinary book-plate is #e or #f4 ,i could only undertake to do a portrait here--the little girl would have to be brought to me4 ,this was done1 and what was considered a successful result was obtained by ,january of the following year4 ,the drawing is reproduced in this volume4 ,her personal popularity showed no signs of waning1 and she wrote to ,ruskin3-- ,every one seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all ,i am to say4 ,then ,america worries me to give drawings1 to give dolls-- and ,i have at last had to give up answering their letters1 for the time it wastes is too much to expect wasted4 ,but though her name was still one to conjure with1 there is little doubt that her work was not as acceptable as it had been4 ,her reign had been a long one and a new generation was knocking at the door4 ,she writes thus of her failing grip upon the public taste3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,lady ,,maria ,,ponsonby ,april #bb1 #ahig4 ,my mind is in a very perplexed state and ,i feel very depressed also4 ,i seem not to do things well1 and whatever ,i do falls so flat4 ,it is rather unhappy to feel that you have had your day4 ,yet if ,i had just enough money to live on ,i could be so very happy1 painting just what ,i liked and no thought of profit4 ,it's there comes the bother1 but it's rather difficult to make enough money in a few years to last for your life4 ,yet now every one is so soon tired of things--that is what it comes to4 ,and on the same date to ,ruskin3-- ,i have been all the morning painting a yellow necklace and touching up a black chair4 ,i do take a time--far too much--they would look better if ,i did them in less4 ,i'm going to do some quite new sorts of paintings4 ,when ,i have finished this lot1 ,i will please myself4 ,i'm so tired of these and nothing ,i do pleases any one else now4 ,every one wants something different so ,i will please myself now4 ,other letters of the year set forth amongst other things how little sympathy she had with the #8,shrieking ,sisterhood' and the #8,new ,woman1' how generous was her appreciation of new and honest artistic endeavour1 how she saw through the hollow pretence of what was new and dishonest1 and how educative she found her own painting4 ,it will also be seen that she was always on the look-out for a good story with which to amuse the #8,professor4' ,illustration3 ,,vera ,,evelyn ,,samuel4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,feb4 #bnd1 #ahig4 ,people are rather excited over the ,woman's ,suffrage ,bill1 but ,i hope it won't pass next time4 ,i don't want a vote myself and ,i do not want it at all4 ,some1 of course1 might vote well but others would follow their feelings too much1 ,i am sure--and get up excitements over things best left alone4 ,for my part ,i do feel the men can do it best and so hope it may remain4 ,there's nothing but women's everything this year because of the ,queen and the festivities1 so now there's a chance for them4 ,they always feel they are not done justice to4 ,i must say1 ,i in my experience have not found it so4 ,i have been fairly treated and ,i have never had any influence to help me4 ,so ,i can't join in with the things they so often say4 ,and then it is generally the second-rate ones who feel they should be the first if it were not for unfair treatment1 and all the while it is want of enough talent4 ,somehow ,i have always found1 the bigger the man the greater his admiration for talent in others4 ,i suppose his own genius makes him feel the genius in others and rejoice in it4 ,not one of them can do a picture like a fine ,leighton--yet they can't even look at him4 ,i did admire ,poynter's speech--and how he went for them4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,miss ,,violet ,,dickinson ,feb4 #aa1 #ahig4 ,then there are the strong-minded women1 who hold up to my vision the hatefulness and shortcomings of ,,man--,how they are going to have exhibitions in this ,victoria year1 and crush ,,man beneath their feet by having everything to themselves and showing how much better they can do it--8888 ,worm as ,i am1 my friend1 oh what a worm they would think me if ,i dared write and say my true views1 that having been always fairly and justly treated by those odious men that ,i would far rather exhibit my things with them and take my true place1 which must be lower than so many of theirs4 ,for ,i fear we can only hope to do--what men can do4 ,it is sad but ,i fear it is so4 ,they have more ability4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,lady ,,maria ,,ponsonby ,feb4 #ba1 #ahig4 ,my mind is tired out by wretched letters and circulars about various exhibitions--the ,victorian and others4 ,i am at special enmity with the ,victoria one because they do go on so4444 ,man is such a vile worm4 ,women are going to blaze forth at this show1 ,i can tell you--at least that is what they say--not impeded by the usual fiasco4 ,heaven knows what that means1 but ,i suppose it has to do with the guileful doings of ,man4 ,have you ever been to the ,exhibition of ,lady ,artists8 ,you see1 ,i'm cross--well1 this is what they've done--got the people i4e4 the organisers to say all the women's pictures may be in the women's work part4 ,they agreed at once--no wonder1 they must have smiled with joy4 ,now why can't we just take our places fairly--get just our right amount of credit and no more4 ,of course we shouldn't get the first places--for the very simple and just reason--that we don't deserve them4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,feb4 #be1 #ahig4 ,i am reading a curious book called ,the ,new ,republic1 by ,mr4 ,mallock4 ,i don't know yet what it means1 but so far it seems so different to its author4 ,some are1 and some are not like their books4 ,you are like your books4 ,i never understand how they can be two things1 yet how often they are4 ,i would rather never see the authors if they are different1 for ,i feel then it isn't what they really feel that they write about1 and that is not a pleasant feeling at all4 ,when writing this letter she does not seem to have recognised the identity of ,mr4 ,ruskin with the #8,mr4 ,herbert' of ,the ,new ,republic4 ,had she done so she would hardly1 we may suppose1 have alluded to the book at all4 ,within a day or two1 however1 the thing seems to have dawned upon her1 for she wrote on ,feb4 #bh3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,miss ,,violet ,,dickinson ,feb4 #bh1 #ahig4 ,did you ever read ,the ,new ,republic1 by ,mr4 ,mallock8 ,it is certainly clever1 so much so ,i feel rather sorry he has written it4 ,i should very much like to know who all the people are meant for--we cannot decide4 ,i suppose ,mr4 ,ruskin is one4#fc ,mr4 ,miller told me they were all people he met at ,sir ,henry ,acland's--,i can't remember if his name is spelt ,ac or ,ack--and that he was furious at ,mr4 ,mallock taking them off in that way4 ,anyhow it is very amusing and funny1 but if the one is ,mr4 ,ruskin he might have done better--but evidently he did not know him well4444 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,march #c1 #ahig4 ,i've got a curious book about the adventures of a young man and a girl on bicycles--it is called ,the ,wheels of ,chance4#fd ,it's very funny4 ,the young man is a draper's assistant who is described as weak and vulgar 7only in the way he talks7 and he turns out so nice4 ,i don't see why he should be supposed to be vulgar because he is a draper's assistant4 ,he could be quite as noble and good being that as having any other trade1 as far as ,i can see4 ,i never can see things that way1 and people never seem to me to be vulgar because they don't speak correctly or know quite what is done in a society a little above them4 ,i think it is vulgar to think them so1 if they are nice and do and think nice things4 ,but the book has nice feeling1 and it would amuse you very much to read it4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,april #ae1 #ahig4 ,isn't it a funny thing ,i can't copy8 ,all the morning ,i have been blundering over a baby's face from a little study4 ,i can't do it a bit2 it is odd4 ,i can't get it a bit like the original4 ,i put it in and take it out1 and so it goes on getting worse and worse4 ,and ,i wish ,i could do it so much but ,i never have been able1 and it don't matter what it is--it is everything--the most trifling thing4 ,i never do it well except direct from the object or my own mind1 but ,i can't copy a flat thing--it really is curious4444 ,the gentleman#fe who has his nursery hung round with my drawings has seen those ,i did for you and is very much taken with them4 ,he wanted me to copy the two big ones1 but ,i told him that was perfectly impossible4 ,so ,i'm going to do him a procession later on4 ,also ,i should not like him to have drawings the same as yours4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,april #bb1 #ahig4 ,i am very fond of ,nicholas ,nickleby4 ,no one has liked ,dickens for so long1 but ,i think ,i begin to see a little turn coming now4 ,of course in time it would be sure to come1 but it is a certain fate to every one after a time1 and then another thing sets in and they take their rank for ever4444 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,april #bg1 #ahig4 ,i went to the ,r4,a4 yesterday4 ,every one has turned portrait painter--,briton ,riviere does ladies and their pet animals--,orchardson all portraits--,herkomer also4 ,there is one picture ,i think beautiful4 ,it is #8,hylas and the ,water ,nymphs'#ff--the water is covered with water-lilies and the girls' heads above the water suggest larger water-lilies1 somehow4 ,they are beautiful1 so is ,hylas1 so is the green water shaded with green trees--it is a beautiful picture--,i forget the legend4 ,then there's one other that impressed me so much--,i can't remember the man's name#fg but ,i should think he's young and new4 ,i think it is called #8,love's ,baubles4' ,a boy goes along1 his hair stuck full of butterflies and carrying a basket of fruits1 followed by a train of girls trying to get them2 some apples are dropped which the girls are picking up4 ,the colour ,,lovely--strong ,rossetti2 it's colour to its highest pitch1 and to my mind it is splendid4 ,there's a girl in front smiling--in a green dress lined with purple shot silk2 she has red hair4 ,her dress is so beautifully painted4 ,the ground is covered with daisies4 ,i shall go on ,monday and look again4 ,there--it's all true4 ,illustration3 ,,two ,,girls ,,in ,a ,,garden4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,john ,riley1 ,esq4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,miss ,,violet ,,dickinson #bi ,april #ahig4 ,i am reading ,george ,moore's ,modern ,painting and ,i feel my cheeks burn4 ,and ,i long1 oh ,i long--if only ,i could do it1 to write a reply4 ,the answers come surging up while ,i read--so much of it seems to me a distorted criticism of distorted things4 ,but sometimes he writes well4 ,i am intensely interested in it1 though of course ,i look on ,art from an entirely different view4 ,i think it sacrilege to compare ,velasquez and ,whistler1 and when he says the world never repeats itself1 we have had a ,velasquez now we'll have a funny ,whistler4 ,would the world say that if there was a remote chance even of another8 ,wouldn't we all say we'll take the ,velasquez1 please8--,not that ,i don't like ,whistler--,i do--but it is nonsense putting him at that level4 ,it seems to have aroused feelings in its readers for there are various pencil notes on the margins beginning shame4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,may #bg1 #ahig4 ,i often think1 just for the pleasure of thinking1 that a little door leads out of the garden wall into a real old flowering garden1 full of deep shades and deep colours4 ,did you always plan out delightful places just close and unexpected1 when you were very young8 ,i did4 ,my bedroom window used to look out over red roofs and chimney-pots1 and ,i made steps up to a lovely garden up there with nasturtiums growing and brilliant flowers so near to the sky4 ,there were some old houses joined ours at the side1 and ,i made a secret door into long lines of old rooms1 all so delightful1 leading into an old garden4 ,i imagined it so often that ,i knew its look so well2 it got to be very real4 ,and now ,i'd like somehow to express all this in painting1 especially my love of old gardens with that richness of colour and depth of shade4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,dancing ,,of ,,the ,,felspar ,,fairies4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mr4 ,,ponsonby ,i went the other day to the ,guildhall#fh--there are beautiful things there1 but not so interesting to me as the last exhibition--that seemed to me the finest collection ,i had ever seen4 ,i can't think why1 but the ,rossettis never seem to go with other pictures1 while the ,millais' tower above all things4 ,they have the ,drummer-boy#fi there1 just wonderful1 and the early one of the ,royalist#gj--;but put in the narrow passage1 where you can't see it4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,july #ad1 #ahig4 ,there was a ,millais--three ,millais'--#8,the ,huguenots1' #8,the ,gambler's ,wife1' and #8,the ,blind ,girl4' ,every time ,i see any of the early ,millais' ,i like them more and more1 if possible4 #8,the ,huguenots' is so wonderful1 isn't it8 ,her face6 it seems to move and quiver as you look at it--it is a divine picture4 ,i do only wish he had not made the colour in the girl's sleeves yellow1 or that yellow4 ,then the wall and the campanulas and nasturtiums--her hands and his6-- ,i know you do not always like ,tadema1 but there is one here ,i think you would like--both the painting and the subject1 but very likely you have seen it4 ,i never have before4 ,it is called #8,the ,women of ,amphissa4' ,do you know it8 ,some women have gone on a pilgrimage and have strayed into an enemy's city and are taken care of and given food by the women of the city4 ,the food is so wonderful4 ,there is some honey in the comb1 and cucumbers and figs and bread4 ,there are two fair women who are marvels of painting4 ,then there's a ,holman ,hunt--#8,the ,boys ,singing on ,may ,morning1'#ga--;but the reflections are so exaggerated it cuts it up too much4 ,but well do ,i love the early one1 #8,the ,two ,gentlemen of ,verona4' ,i have often seen this before and ,i love it4 ,it really is so beautiful to see such pictures4 ,then there's a ,lewis--such painting1 such colour6 ,what a wonderful collection of men they were6 ,and what will this generation who run them down have to show8 ,for them1 nothing that ,i can see at present4 ,there are two ,turners1 but by the time ,i got to those ,i was feeling too tired to stand4 ,i fear ,i shan't go again for ,i think it closes to-day4 ,there1 it is all pictures this time1 but ,i feel so much better for seeing them4 ,i always do1 if ,i can see a beautiful thing4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,lady ,,maria ,,ponsonby ,july #bf1 #ahig4 ,an ,american and his wife came to-day and bought some drawings1 and the lady asked me how much they were a dozen6 ,her ,american visitors were perhaps scarcely to be blamed2 for ,miss ,greenaway1 alike innocent of the simple strategy of the prudent salesman and incapable of the subtle skill of the accomplished dealer1 would make no attempt to #8nurse' her drawings4 ,if she were asked by an intending purchaser what she had for disposal1 she would bring out everything she had1 partly in order that her client might make the freest choice1 partly in a spirit of pure but impolitic self-abnegation4 ,and when her friends remonstrated with her on the imprudence of the proceeding1 she would laugh and reply gaily that she evidently was not cut out for a business woman4 ,no wonder that ,american collector thought that the matter might be approached on a #8wholesale' footing4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,july #bh1 #ahig4 ,did ,i tell you ,i was now reading a very fascinating book about gardens1 only it is conducted on more scientific principles than my gardening and would take much longer4 ,mine consists in putting something into the ground4 ,when once there it has to see after itself1 and can't come up to see after its root1 or go to another spot for change of air--perseverance does it6 ,there's an alstrmeria that has had quite a desperate struggle for three or four years when it's never grown up--never flowered--,but this year there has been a victory1 a great bush of lovely orange flowers4 ,i saw such a great bee in the garden the other day--as large as the ,coniston ones that kick so furiously4 ,i thought of the ,coniston bees when ,i saw him1 and then--of the ,coniston ,moor1 and the ,coniston ,lake1 and the ,coniston ,mountains4 ,ah1 well1 ,i shall come and see it again some time--won't you like to see me again1 some time8 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,miss ,,violet ,,dickinson ,nov4 #ab1 #ahig4 ,i've now finished ,st4 ,ives4 ,i don't like the other man's ending--,i--don't think it is up to ,stevenson's usual mark4 ,there are too many adventures--too many hairbreadth escapes--it wants some spaces of repose4 ,i don't like all dangers1 it becomes painful to me to read4 ,you no sooner begin to breathe1 feeling he is safe1 than there he is again worse than before4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,nov4 #ah1 #ahig4 ,oh1 ,i went to the ,new ,english ,art ,club yesterday--such productions6 ,i just think it all mere pretence4 ,they are to my mind mostly all very ugly rough sketches1 and they think nothing of leaving out the head or body of any one if that isn't where they want it---- ,i'd like you to see some of the clouds--solid--absolutely--and to think of ,turner6 ,the place was thronged with students which is sad--but ,i believe it won't be for long4 ,i was told the ,times said the movement began to be popular and so was bad and dangerous4 ,i believe it will soon all crumble away1 for there isn't anything in it except sketches2 none of the good artists would exhibit--the tide will turn4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,nov4 #bd1 #ahig4 ,what do you think ,i have been drawing to-day8 ,i got so interested it has made me very tired4 ,i am doing a band of little child angels each carrying a lily coming along a hilltop against a green 7summer7 sunset sky4 ,may-trees are in flower1 and they are 7one or two of the angels7 gathering daisies4 ,the lilies are heavenly lilies1 so it doesn't matter their being out at the same time as the ,may4 ,i have not yet finished the starry sky1 but ,i was constrained to do the angels4 ,this chapter may fitly be brought to a close by the following handsome defence of ,ruskin1 inspired by a conversation with ,miss ,violet ,dickinson1 and written twelve months before the last letter4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,miss ,,violet ,,dickinson ,nov4 #b1 #ahif4 ,i have been thinking very much about what you said1 of the way people talk against him in ,venice--,i hope you will try a little not to quite believe it all4 ,for believe me it is sure not to be all true1 and even if he has been very inaccurate the world owes him so much that one may well and justly 7,i think7 forget his faults4 ,illustration3 ,a ,,baby ,,in ,,white4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,the world is very ungrateful like all nature is1 and takes all the good it can get and then flings the giver of it away4 ,that is our way and it is a cruel one4 ,and there's another reason also--a reason that once ,i used not to believe in--but ,i do now1 and that is that so many of the second-rate authors and artists seem to have a most bitter jealousy of the great ones4 ,it is very curious to me but they do4 ,they love to find a fault4 ,look how delighted they were to think ,carlyle was unkind to ,mrs4 ,carlyle1 while really ,i suppose he never was4 ,when ,mr4 du ,maurier died the other day such unfair notices of both his books and drawings6--,i feel red-hot angry at lots of the things said about the big ones1 and we ought to be so grateful to them instead for what they make the world for us4 ,nearly always the criticisms are from the lesser man on the great one4 ,how should he know8--,if he did he would be the great one1 but he isn't and can't be1 and nothing shows more how little and below he is4 ,more than that1 he can't reverence and venerate those wonderful souls who shower down so freely for everybody the greatness that is in them4 ,i feel ,i can say all this to you for you are a feeling soul1 and ,i know you'll go with me4 ,not that ,i mean for one moment that it is right not to be accurate1 and ,i know in ,mr4 ,ruskin's case he is too ready to believe all he hears1 but ,i think it should be forgiven--that the beautiful things he tells you--and the new life of ,art you enter into--compensate4 ,never shall ,i forget what ,i felt in reading ,fors ,clavigera for the first time1 and it was the first book of his ,i had ever read4 ,i longed for each evening to come that ,i might lose myself in that new wonderful world4 ,,chapter ,,xiv #ahih-aija ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,third ,,exhibition--,,correspondence ,,with ,,john ,,ruskin1 ,,and ,,mr4 ,,and ,,mrs4 ,,stuart ,m4 ,,samuel--,,her ,,views ,,on ,,art1 ,,religion1 ,,and ,,books--,,painting ,,in ,,oil--,,death ,,of ,,ruskin--,,illness ,,and ,,death ,,of ,,kate ,,greenaway--,,posthumous ,,exhibition--,,the ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,memorial4 ,besides a visit to ,lady ,jeune1 at whose house ,kate again had the pleasure of meeting the ,princess ,christian and other royal ladies1 the year #ahih was marked by only one event of any moment4 ,this was the third exhibition of her pictures at the ,fine ,art ,society's ,gallery1 and she approached the ordeal with considerable misgivings4 ,there was no need for apprehension1 however4 ,out of one hundred and twenty-seven little pictures eloquent of her unbounded industry1 sixty-six found purchasers1 the total receipts reaching the sum of #a1jbd3afs4#gb ,but the results did not satisfy her4 ,after the opening day she wrote to ,miss ,dickinson3-- ,feb4 #bb1 #ahih4 ,i'm so glad it is over4 ,i hate having to talk to crowds of strangers1 and then it is a very anxious time after working for it so long4 ,at the ,fine ,art they say it will be successful2 that always1 if they sell as much as that on the ,private ,view day1 that it is all right--but ,i have very great doubts if it is so1 and the large ,pencil and ,chalk drawings ,i fear do not take at all4 ,the little ones sell1 and the dressed-up babies4 ,i've felt depressed about it and ,i hardly ever feel that unless there is a cause4 ,it was so tiresome--the day people go to buy was such a horrid day of rain and sleet1 and now to-day snow4 ,then there was coming another ,exhibition of old mezzo-tints with a private view which they said would be so good for me as so many would be there1 but now they have had an offer and sold the whole collection1 so that won't come off4 ,they are going to have the ,martian drawings#gc and others instead4 ,then they had a beautiful sage ,flag to float outside1 but when it came home they had only put one #8e' into my name and it had to go back to be altered4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,miss ,violet ,dickinson4 ,and three weeks later1 in reply to #8kind inquiries' after the exhibition by her friend1 she wrote in no better spirits3-- #ac ,march #ahih4 ,no1 the drawings are not nearly all sold4 ,if more of the higher-priced ones were gone instead of the others it would not be so bad1 but it takes a great number at only a few pounds each to make up anything like enough to pay4 ,the ,fine ,art people say the ,east wind has kept people from going out and they have had so few people in and out in consequence--but ,i feel far more that my sort of drawing is not the drawing that is liked just now1 and also that ,i am getting to be a thing of the past1 though ,i have not arrived at those venerable years they seem to think fit to endow me with4 ,whether or not she had good reason to complain of the fickleness of the picture-buying public1 certain it is that those who bought her pictures then have had no reason to repent of their bargains4 ,illustration3 ,,book-,,plate ,,of ,,miss ,,vera ,,evelyn ,,samuel4 ,from the photogravure in colours in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,in this year ,miss ,greenaway completed the book-plate she had undertaken to draw in colours for ,mr4 ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel's little daughter ,vera2 and so conscientious was she that although her price for it was only six pounds1 she was occupied upon it on and off for two and a half years2 and when her client sent her a much larger sum than was actually due1 she insisted on returning to him the over-payment1 while #8feeling it so very kind4' ,the pains she took were extraordinary--the child1 the design1 the introduction of the wreath of roses with the hovering bees 7from ,mr4 ,samuel's own book-emblem71 and the lettering1 all received the utmost consideration4 ,the lettering proved too much for her1 as on the occasion when ,ruskin so roundly trounced her2 so she agreed to have the words designed for her by a professional letter-draughtsman for her to copy in her drawing4 ,when it was finished she took the keenest interest in the reproduction1 and she was highly flattered that ,mr4 ,samuel decided to discard the #8three-colour process' and adopt the more precious but vastly more expensive photogravure on copper4 ,in this case each separate impression is printed from a plate inked la poupe--that is to say1 the artist-printer inks the plate with the various coloured inks carefully matched to the tones of the drawing2 so that1 when the plate is passed through the press only one copy can be obtained from each printing1 and the plate has to be inked again4 ,a few impressions1 therefore--say ten1 or thereabouts--cost as much as the original drawing1 but the result justifies the expenditure4 ,the reproduction here given is not from the drawing itself1 but is a three-colour reproduction from the printed impression which has often been mistaken for the original4 ,the artist was delighted1 and wrote--#8,how much ,i should like to do a book like this1 but ,i suppose it is fearfully expensive4444 ,it is really beautifully done4' ,in this letter she goes on to revert to her ill-health1 and succeeding letters1 in a like strain1 led her friends to suspect the true cause of what she thought was #8influenza4' ,thus1 on the eve of staying at ,cromer with ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,samuel1 she writes--on the #aeth of ,may #aijj1 after a recurrence of illness--#8,please forgive my not coming4 ,i know you would have been a ,vision in the ,loveliest of ,colours4 ,i should so much like to come to tea again later on when ,i'm not so busy1 and see you and some more ,first ,editions4' ,and again3 #8,i hope you are quite well again4 ,i am not yet4 ,i suppose ,i've had influenza4 ,i never felt so ill before4' ,then follows a series of letters full of hopes of future meeting1 of acknowledgments of commissions given1 and of gratitude for kindnesses received4 ,the kindnesses1 as was usual with her1 she sought to return by the gift of little drawings to her hosts and their children1 for although she loved attentions she never liked to feel the weight of indebtedness4 ,she used to be a little nervous in making these presentations4 ,on one occasion1 when she made such a gift to one of the present writers and she was asked to sign it1 she wrote in her flurry #8,kate ,spielmann'--and there the quaint signature remains 7rather smudged out by her impulsive forefinger7 at the present moment4 ,as in the record of the immediately preceding years1 so in that of #ahih we have to depend on letters1 written in the main to ,ruskin1 for any intimate impression of her life and character4 ,they abound in allusions to her hopes1 fears1 ambitions1 enthusiasms1 and perplexities1 ethical and religious1 her preferences in art and literature1 her generous appreciation of the gifts of others and her modest estimate of her own4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,jan4 #ab1 #ahih4 ,i went yesterday afternoon to see the ,millais' at the ,r4,a4 and ,i think them more wonderful than ever4 ,it is splendid the impression of beauty and power--as you first step into the rooms4 ,do you know well #8,the ,boyhood of ,sir ,walter ,raleigh'8 ,i think that boy's face is the most beautiful ,i have ever seen--it makes me cry to look at it4 ,its expression is so intensely wonderful--so is #8,the ,stowaway4'--,but it is going from one masterpiece to another4 ,still there are some which do not appeal to me as much as others4 ,the divine #8,ophelia' is there as divine as ever4 ,people are making up to it4 ,i have thought it the most wonderful picture ever since ,i first saw it4 ,then there is the girl's face in #8,yes6'--full of the most beautiful feeling--like the ,huguenot girl4--,how he painted those children6--,angels of ,beauty4 ,he is really a marvel4444 ,i should like to have a sort of little packing case made that ,i could put drawings into and send backwards and forwards for you to see--sometimes--only perhaps you wouldn't like them4 ,if you would it would be rather nice--a very narrow flat box always ready4 ,i fear the exhibition won't be in the least successful2 there seems to me to be very few pictures sell now--or a person is popular just for a little time4 ,and there's so much fad over art--if you like the new things they say you are modern4 ,i say ,art isn't modern3 new or old in a way4 ,it is like summer is summer--spicy is spicy1 and ,art is ,art1 for as long as the world is--isn't that true8 ,however1 they have woke up to the #8,ophelia' so ,i forgive them a good deal4 ,but ,i can't help feeling boiling over with rage when ,i read the criticisms in some of the papers--so utterly ignorant2 and then people who don't know are guided by this4 ,i daresay you will say1 #8,but what do the people who don't know matter8'--,they don't--but it is depressing4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,jan4 #bf1 #ahih4 ,i wish people would care about what ,i do more now4 ,this ,millais ,exhibition has rather woke them up4 ,they got to think ,leighton was a poor feeble being and ,millais nowhere before the ,new ,art1 but ,i'm rather amused to hear the different talk now4--,and then ,poynter and ,richmond1 to my great joy1 have been going for them in their addresses4 ,for a great many years now ,i have thought the #8,ophelia' the greatest picture of modern times and ,i still think so4 ,they have unfortunately hung the children being saved from the fire next to it1 which was not a wise choice1 as the red of the fire one is1 of course1 very trying to those nearest it--but oh1 they ,,are all wonderful4#gd ,jan4 #bg4 ,i have been to see the ,rossettis again to-day for a little change1 for ,i was too tired for anything4 ,i like the small water-colours more and more4 ,the colours are so wonderful4 ,i feel ,i do such weak things and think strong ones1 and it is dreadfully tiresome4 ,i do want to do something nice--beautiful--like ,i feel--like ,i see in my mind1 and there ,i am trammelled by technical shortcomings4 ,i will never begin a lot of things together again because then you can't do new ideas or try different ways of work1 and ,i always could only do one thing at once4 ,i live in the one thing and think about it1 and it's like a real thing or place for the time4 ,even now1 the moment ,i'm doing a new drawing the morning rushes by--,i'm so happy1 so interested1 ,i only feel the tiredness when ,i can't go on because it is too late or too dark4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,feb4 #b1 #ahih4 ,i am reading some pretty stories translated from the ,french of ,madame ,darmesteter1 but ,i fancy some of the historical ones are rendered a great deal more unhistorical1 and your sympathy is expected from a point of view that you can't 7or ,i can't7 give1 if ,i think it out4 ,but ,i am much more puzzled the longer ,i live as to what is right and wrong4 ,i don't mean for myself4 ,the rules ,i knew as a child are still good for me--,i still think those right4 ,but it's other people's minds seem to me so strangely mixed up till ,i feel1 why don't people settle it once for all1 and do what they call right and not what they call wrong8 ,it seems to me to be so unjust1 often1 for there to be two laws about a thing4 ,i often ask people but ,i never learn--every one seems vague and says--#8,oh well1 if you do right you have your own self-respect'2 but it seems to me more than that4 ,it is right to do one thing--wrong to do another2 at least1 isn't this true8 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,march #bi1 #ahih4 ,i long to be at work painting ,may-trees4 ,there are such beauties on the ,heath only they are black instead of grey1 or else they twist about beautifully4 ,may-trees have such sharp curves1 don't they1 grow at right angles1 in a way1 instead of curves8 ,i like it so much4 ,do you know them in ,hatfield ,park8 ,they are the greyest1 oldest trees ,i have ever seen4 ,may-trees don't grow about that way at ,witley4 ,the ,may is all in the hedges1 not growing on the commons in single trees4 ,yet it must be very much the same sort of sandy soil that is on the ,heath1 and ,witley is nearly all uncultivated land4 ,i always look with envy at the ,may-tree ,burne-,jones painted in #8,merlin and ,vivien'3--it is so wonderful4 ,in the following letter she describes her visit to ,lady ,jeune at ,arlington ,manor1 ,newbury3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,april #ad1 #ahih4 ,i feel rather low to leave ,lady ,jeune1 she is so dear and kind4 ,i can't tell you how kind she is to every one1 and ,madeline ,stanley1 the daughter1 is so beautiful and so kind and so very unselfish4 ,she played ,lady ,teazle and she was a dream of loveliness1 and1 ,i thought1 acted it in so refined a manner4 ,i felt considerably out of it all but they were all very nice people and ,i did them pictures--,i hope gave them a little pleasure in compensation for their kindness to me4444 ,i went off for two or three little quiet walks by myself on the ,common2 it was a fascination complete--a great joy4 ,it made me wild with delight to see it all--the yellow of the gorse and the brilliant green and orange of the mosses1 and the deep blue of the sky4 ,also1 ,i grieve to say it1 and you will be shocked to think it of me1 but those three lovely sirens were rather depressing--one felt so different1 one was of no account4 ,there was ,miss ,millard2--black curly hair and deep1 deep grey eyes1 and sweet pink cheeks4 ,there was ,lady ,dorothy ,fitz,clarence with red-gold hair and eyes like--was it ,viola8 7#8her eyes are green as glass1 and so are mine'72--eyes the greenest 7or greyest7 of things blue1 and bluest of things grey--cheeks the colour of a pink pale ,china rose1 red lips and creamy complexion4 ,then came that beautiful1 that dearest siren of them all--,madeline ,stanley--who is so dear one could only rejoice in her altogether4 ,but think of poor me6 ,i used to say to ,lady ,jeune1 #8,oh1 let me come away with you1 away from these sirens1 the air is full of them4' ,no wonder the poor young men thirsted for the stage-manager's blood1 who took the lion's share of the beautiful sirens4 ,they vowed such vengeance ,i told them ,i thought it very unfair1 but they assured me their injuries were great4 ,illustration3 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,before ,,the ,,fates4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,mrs4 ,arthur ,severn4 ,in another letter on the same occasion she writes1 #8,i am a crow amongst beautiful birds4' ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,lady ,,maria ,,ponsonby ,april #ai1 #ahih4 ,it was lovely at ,newbury--there is a common there just edging the grounds tenanted by sweet little woolly white lambs--such pictures1 with wide-open anemones and blackthorn bushes4 ,it made me so very happy to walk about there and look at things4 ,there was acting going on and the house was filled with young men and women1 so ,i felt considerably out of it4 ,but they were really most of them very nice to me1 and the three girls were dreams of beauty4 ,madeline ,stanley is so beautiful and not modern2 she is so very dear and kind--,i think her perfection4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,april #bj1 #ahih4 ,to-morrow is the ,new ,gallery ,private ,view1 but there won't be anything to look at like the ,rossettis4 ,how ,i should like to live always in a room with two or three ,rossettis on the walls4 ,you live in a great many places at once1 don't you1 when you have beautiful pictures hanging on your walls8 ,you lift up your eyes and you are away in a new land in a moment4 ,i should find it hard to choose if ,i were allowed the choice of twelve pictures4 ,i would have had one of the ,briar ,rose pictures1 ,i know3 #8,the ,maidens asleep at the ,loom'--a small ,rossetti1 ,i know1 but which ,i am not quite certain1--perhaps the meeting of ,dante and ,beatrice in ,paradise4 7,whenever ,i write ,paradise ,i think of you4 ,i remember writing it #8,paridise' one day to you1 and you were rather cross and wrote back #8,i'd write ,paradise with an a if ,i were you4' ,i did feel humiliated67 ,then what else6 ,the beautiful ,luini ,lady with the jasmine wreath and green gauzy veil and the divine smile4#ge ,it is a great deal to make any one smiling a smile that you can never get tired of4 ,i'm reading the ,diary of ,grant ,duff2 it is so very interesting and full of such funny pictures4 ,i was rather interested last night1 after ,i had been writing about the twelve pictures1 to find he talks of choosing twelve1 but his choices are not mine--and ,i've not chosen my twelve1 and besides perhaps my twelve are far away where ,i shall never see them--,i have seen so few4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,may #bg1 #ahih4 ,i wish ,i did not have to make any money4 ,i would like to work very hard but in a different way so that ,i was more free to do what ,i liked1 and it is so difficult now ,i am no longer at all the fashion4 ,i say fashion1 for that is the right word1 that is all it is to a great many people4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,july #f1 #ahih4 ,isn't it curious how one can like good things so much and not do them8 ,i do love one figure or a number put into a little space with just room for what they are doing4 ,i don't think figures ever look well with large spaces of background4 ,i know how fascinated ,i was by that one of ,rossetti's--the ,princess of ,sabra drawing the lot4 ,for one thing1 my mind runs to ornament or decoration in a way1 though it has to be natural forms1 like foxgloves or vine-leaves4 ,i can't like a flower or leaf ,i invent1 though ,i often love those ,i see done4 ,illustration3 ,on a letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,july #ad1 #ahih4 ,i went to see the ,guildhall pictures yesterday afternoon1 but ,i can't help it1 ,i like the ,english ones best4 ,they are splendidly done but--they don't take me4 ,i do like ,bastien-,lepage and ,millet and ,meissonier--,i don't think ,i've got sympathy with ,french art1 it is somehow too artificial4 ,perhaps ,i'm very1 very wrong but--,i can't help it1 ,i feel so4 ,i went one day to the ,gallery of ,international ,art4 ,some things ,i liked but the greater number ,i felt wrong and not clever1 and some ,i felt loathsome4 ,that is a strong word but ,i feel it4 ,shannon does fine portraits4 ,i think his pictures of girls are perfect1 ,i like them so very much4 ,two days later she wrote to ,miss ,dickinson3 #8,i went to see the pictures at the ,international4 ,some are so funny4 ,i laughed till the tears really came4 ,it is art gone mad4' ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,,newhaven ,,court1 ,,cromer1 ,august #bf1 #ahih4 ,there is a very1 very pretty girl sitting opposite doing ,french4 ,she is occasionally extremely impertinent to me--,i tell her ,i am going to tell you4 ,she says she would like to see you1 and she likes your face and she sends you her love4 ,this is ,miss ,maud ,locker-,lampson1 looking so lovely in a purple and green dress like a wild hyacinth4 ,you would so love all these nice dear children--they are so nice--so good-looking4 ,and there is something else you would like--the loveliest tiny grey kitten1 such a sweet4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,sept4 #a1 #ahih4 ,isn't it a pity more people do not love things8--,the beautiful things of the world are so little to so many2 they go for drives where all they look upon is so lovely and they care not one bit1 but long to get home again as quickly as possible4 ,i can't tell why it is people are always trying to convert me4 ,they seem to look upon me as always such a ready subject1 and really there is not a more fixed belief than ,i possess--,i have thought the same way ever since ,i have had the power to think at all4 ,how is it possible that ,i should change8 ,i know ,i shall not4 ,if there is a ,god who made all the wonderful things in this world1 surely ,he would require some worship of those also1 but ,i can't help thinking of a power so much greater than all that altogether--a power that the best in us reaches to only4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,sept4 #af1 #ahih4 ,i'm reading a book that makes me so unhappy--,i hate it--,i totally disapprove of it1 yet ,i want to read it to the end to know what it is like4 ,i feel all the time how wretched ,i should be if ,i had a mind like the man who wrote this book4 ,how curious it is the way people think--the difference of how they think--how curious they are in the narrowness of their--shall ,i say--vision8 ,and there goes on the wonderful world all the time1 with its wonders hidden to1 and uncared for by1 so many4 ,how is it that ,i have got to think the caring for ,nature and ,art of all kinds a real religion8 ,i never can1 never shall see it is more religious to sit in a hot church trying to listen to a commonplace sermon than looking at a beautiful sky1 or the waves coming in1 and feeling that longing to be good and exultation in the beauty of things4 ,how dreadful that sordid idea of a ,god is with the mind getting more and more morbid and frightened4 ,why was the world made then8 and everything so wonderful and beautiful8 ,she recounts how somebody1 who had felt it a duty to attempt to convert her1 had said1 #88,you can't sit on that sofa for five minutes without feeling steeped in sin02 and ,i said1 8,i often sit on it1 and ,i don't feel like that2 if ,i did ,i should try hard not to do wrong things40 ,and so ,i would6' ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,oct4 #bf1 #ahih4 ,how curiously days come back to you1 or rather1 live for ever in your life--never go out of it1 as if the impression was so great it could never go away again4 ,i could tell you so many such4 ,one is so often present ,i think ,i must tell that one now4 ,go and stand in a shady lane--at least1 a wide country road--with high hedges1 and wide grassy places at the sides4 ,the hedges are all hawthorns blossoming2 in the grass grow great patches of speedwell1 stitchwort1 and daisies4 ,you look through gates into fields full of buttercups1 and the whole of it is filled with sunlight4 ,for ,i said it was shady only because the hedges were high4 ,now do you see my little picture1 and me a little dark girl in a pink frock and hat1 looking about at things a good deal1 and thoughts filled up with such wonderful things--everything seeming wonderful1 and life to go on for ever just as it was4 ,what a beautiful long time a day was6 ,filled with time---- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin #g ,nov4 #ahih4 ,i am reading a strange ,french ,play4 ,i should like to see it acted--,cyrano de ,bergerac4 ,i feel it would be very taking when played4 ,it is so strange all the great things are a sacrifice4 ,the thing that appeals supremely seems to me always that4 ,yet how sad it should be1 for to the one it means desolation4 ,it is a strange world this4 ,how queer it all is1 isn't it8 living at all--and our motives and things matter1 and liking beautiful things1 and all the while really not knowing anything about the ,vital ,part of it--the ,before and the ,after4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,nov4 #ahih4 ,oh1 so foggy again6 ,no seeing to paint or draw4 ,i hope it will soon leave off this1 but it always is so about ,lord ,mayor's day4 ,it is nearly always an accompaniment1 isn't it8 ,i saw the people going home the other day with those long papers of the ,show4 ,do you remember them8 ,how fascinating they used to be to me6 how wonderful they seemed6 ,did you like them8 ,i have only seen ,lord ,mayor's ,show once4 ,i would like to see it again4 ,i hope they will never give it up4 ,i do so wish we had a few more processions1 and ,i'd like to revive all the old ,may-days1 ,jacks-in-the-,green1 and ,may-poles--then ,morris dancers1 all of them4 ,i've seen ,morris dancers once only but they looked so nice with their sticks and ribbons4 ,i wish ,i had something very nice to send you on this foggy day4 ,i want to go to the ,fine ,art this afternoon to see ,alfred ,east's drawings4 ,one will have to look at them by gas-light for the fog is so dense4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,dec4 #bg1 #ahih4 ,it really is fatal to me to have to do anything in a hurry1 ,i must have a quiet time4 ,i can do just as much work or more if only ,i don't feel ,i've got to make haste--a sort of ,dutch temperament--no1 it is really nervousness--comes in4 ,look at dear ,rover6 ,there's a calm life--nothing at all to bother about except to try to get more of the things he likes4 ,such1 presumably1 as two chops instead of the one which1 every day of his spoiled life1 ,kate had grilled for him4 ,and he might eat the cakes and fancy biscuits at tea-time if he chose to commandeer them4 ,the inevitable result of such high living was occasional illness and veterinary attentions4 ,the following are extracts from undated letters of this year3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,dear ,rover is1 ,i am sorry to say1 getting fatter again1 after all the trouble we have taken to make him thin4 ,he is evidently meant to be stout4 ,one thing now1 he never will go alone4 ,we always have to be with him4 ,once he would go for long walks by himself4 ,they are quite different1 like people1 when once you get to know them4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,fable ,,of ,,the ,,girl ,,and ,,her ,,milk ,,pail4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,w4 ,finch1 ,esq4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,i have just heard from ,joanie that you spent your day in the drawing-room yesterday--so you would see the ,burne-,jones' and the ,hunts4 ,how slowly the ,hunts have dawned on me--but it is a comfort they have dawned1 isn't it8888 ,ah1 you say1 ,,what a benighted being1 what a little ,heathen6 to have been so long4 ,illustration3 ,,rover ,,is ,,indisposed ,,and ,,has ,,to ,,be ,,bandaged4 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,what a fuss there has been about ,sir ,herbert ,kitchener6--,i like it4--,he must have felt it was very nice for people to be so glad4 ,i like a great deal made of people who do things4 ,in the same strain she had written of another hero to ,miss ,dickinson the year before3-- ,i'm very much impressed by ,lord ,roberts' ,indian book4 ,i met him many years ago at a children's party at ,lady ,jeune's4 ,she told us we were rival attractions and the little ,princes and ,princesses couldn't make up their minds which of us they wanted to see most4 ,he was brave--so were the others2 they were a brave and noble lot4 ,it seems too wonderful as you read to think how people can be like that1 going to certain death--to the suffering of anguish4 ,it feels to me too much to take--too much to accept--but it's beautiful4 ,in #ahii ,kate ,greenaway devoted herself seriously to the painting of portraits in oil colours1 and her letters of this year are full of the difficulties which beset her and her indomitable determination to master the mysteries of the new medium4 ,again and again we find her bewailing--#8,i wish ,i could paint and not do smooth sticky things'--#8,i can draw a little but ,i can't paint'--#8,isn't it too bad--too bad--how much ,i can admire and--how little ,i can do4' ,in ,march she said good-bye with a heavy heart to her friends the ,tennysons1 on ,lord ,tennyson's departure to take up the ,governorship of ,south ,australia4 ,they were destined never to meet again4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,jan4 #c1 #ahii4 ,i'm not doing drawings that at all interest me just now4 ,they are just single figures of children which ,i always spoil by the backgrounds4 ,i never can put a background into a painting of a single figure1 while in a drawing there isn't the least difficulty4 ,perhaps ,i don't trouble about the reality in the drawing4 ,i put things just where ,i want them1 not1 possibly1 as they ought to go4 ,and that seems to me the difficulty of full-length portraits4 ,it is all quite easy with just a head or half length4 ,it is funny the background should be the difficulty4 ,the most modern way is to have a highly done-out background and a figure lost in mist1 but ,i don't see this4 ,so ,i can't take refuge there4 ,miss ,greenaway's difficulty with backgrounds is that shared by every artist1 more or less4 ,g4 ,f4 ,watts1 ,r4,a41 used to quote ,rubens1 who said that #8the man who can paint a background can paint a portrait4' ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,jan4 #aa1 #ahii4 ,what dismal books people do write6 ,i have just been reading a story by ,hardy called ,the ,woodlanders1 so spoilt by coarseness and unnaturalness4 ,i say spoilt by this1 for there are parts of it so beautiful--all the descriptions of the country and the cider-making--it is all so well described you really feel there4 ,the end of the book is simply ,hateful4 ,i hated to think his mind could make it end so4 ,did you ever read any of his books8 so many people now seem to me to make things unnatural--it is a curious thing to think so1 but ,i'm sure it is that they do--and the natural is so much greater4 ,they like things odd--eccentric4 ,she never missed an opportunity of seeing ,burne-,jones's pictures4 ,here are two of a hundred instances3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,jan4 #ai1 #ahii4 ,i am going to-day to see the ,burne-,jones drawings at the ,burlington ,club4 ,his drawings are so beautiful4 ,i do wish you could see the large painting of ,king ,arthur at ,avalon4 ,how you would like to have it to look at for a time6 ,i should like to have it for a week hung opposite to me that ,i might know it all--every bit4 ,how tired one would get of some paintings if one gazed upon them for a week--as tired as one often gets of one's own4 ,i fear it is conceited but there are a very few drawings--little ones of my own--that ,i do not get tired of1 though ,i do of most of them4 ,saturday4 ,i went to see the ,burne-,jones drawings yesterday4 ,they are very lovely4 ,there are two or three ,i would like to have1 but indeed there is not one ,i would not1 but there are two or three ,i would love to possess--a procession with such lovely young girls in it4 ,the studies for the pictures are so beautiful--the chalk and pencil drawings4 ,he draws such beautiful faces2 and ,i like his later drawings often better than his earlier ones4 ,he certainly had not gone off1 except perhaps in colour--but that was a phase4 ,he had grown to like colder colour1 brown and cold grey1 which ,i did not always like1 preferring the beautiful colouring of the #8,chant d',amour' and #8,venus ,vinctrix4' ,but then1 ,i like colour so much4 ,well1 the world is ,coloured1 so are people4 ,i see colour higher than things uncoloured for that reason4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,feb4 #ba1 #ahii4 ,i told you1 didn't ,i1 that ,i was going to try if ,i could do portraits of children8 ,i don't at all like it4 ,i don't feel near strong enough for the strain of it4 ,i know what the children are like--quite unaccustomed to sitting still1 and then to have to get a real likeness6 ,i prefer the little girls and boys that live in that nice land1 that come as you call them1 fair or dark1 in green ribbons or blue4 ,i like making cowslip fields grow and apple-trees bloom at a moment's notice4 ,this is what it is1 you see1 to have gone through life with an enchanted land ever beside you--yet how much it has been6 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,march #h1 #ahii4 ,the summer exhibitions now are never interesting4 ,the poor artists can't afford to paint good pictures4 ,no one will buy them4 ,i think it is very sad and such a pity--the sort of thing that's taken now--cheap1 of course1 that comes first--then comes the picture if you can call it so 7,i often don't74 ,the colours are daubed on in great smears and dashes4 ,the drawing has gone--anywhere but to the picture--at a distance it looks like something but close you can't see anything4 ,now ,i hate pictures that don't look right close4 ,sometimes the colour of them is good1 powerful1 and strong1 but--so was ,millais1 and with all else1 it ought to be added1 the more and more do ,i grow to think ,millais wonderful4 ,to me there is no question he is greatest4 ,people quarrel with me because ,i think him greater than ,watts1 but1 is it conceited to say8--,i know he is4 ,and ,watts himself says so also4 ,ah6 if ,i could paint like ,millais6 then1 then you'd see a proud person indeed4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,march #ag1 #ahii4 ,my little model has taken to say such funny things lately4 ,she said yesterday some one had an illness that went in at his head and came out at his feet4 ,she also was talking of a little sister being ill and ,i said1 #8,perhaps she is cutting a tooth4' #8,oh no1' she said1 #8she always cuts her teeth with bronchitis4' 444 ,it inspires me so much to see good paintings though ,i don't think you can ever tell how they are done1 or at least ,i can't4 ,i often think that when ,i am painting myself no one would guess ,i did that1 or that1 the look is all4 ,you may do a thing quite another way from the elaborate theory4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,march #bc1 #ahii4 ,i make such awful beings in oil--you would be amused1 but--,i'm going on till ,i emerge--,i'm going to emerge1 ,i'm so interested but ,,so ,,stupid4 ,the paint all runs away1 and the big brushes6 ,but think of the fine point ,i've passed my life with6 ,i knew where ,i was going then4 ,why1 trying to draw with a pencil with no point is nothing to it4 ,but1 as ,i said1 ,i'm going to emerge--in the end--triumphant--8888--but that appears to be a considerable long way off yet4444 ,i should like to paint ,spring one day4 ,i see it all4444 ,if ,i could ,paint in ,oil1 you see1 ,i could do it1--don't you see8 or do you smile8 ,you would if you saw the ,painting in ,oil4 ,i sit and laugh at it4 ,my little model says--#8,oh1 ,i don't think it's so bad'--and tells other people ,i don't get into a mess4 ,upon which they say1 #8,that's odd4' ,i was rather touched by her assumption of my triumphant progress4 ,you like her for it--don't you8 ,ah1 well1 ,i'm going to do lovely little girls and boys by and by4 ,i am4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,muff 7,,unfinished74 ,from the experimental oil painting in the possession of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 ,on the same subject she wrote to ,miss ,dickinson on ,april #bd3 #8,i am more enthralled than ever by the oil paint1 which begins to go where ,i want it instead of where it wants to go itself4' ,at the ,exhibition of the ,home ,art ,industries at the ,albert ,hall she has an amusing contretemps4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,illustration ,may #i1 #ahii4 ,then the ,princess ,louise came and ,i was introduced to her4 ,she is so pretty and looks so young4 ,i actually remembered to curtsey 7which ,i always forget71 and ,i was just congratulating myself on having behaved properly1 when all my money rolled out of my purse on to the ground4 ,the ,princess laughed and picked it up4 ,wasn't it nice of her8 ,something always happens to me4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,may #ag1 #ahii4 ,i am improving now in my oil-painting4 ,i begin to make the flesh look like flesh and no longer white and chalky4 ,i like doing it so much and if only the models would not talk so much6--,but how they talk6 and if you stop them talking they gape and make such ugly faces6 ,some one was telling me that ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds1 to stop his sitters' talking1 had a glass put up so that they could see him working4 ,i think of adopting that plan4 ,you can't think what you are doing while you have to listen4 ,i can't see why they want to talk so and never think4 ,how funny it would be to have a mind that never liked to be alone with its own thoughts--very dreadful ,i should find it4 ,i get to feel very tired and miserable if ,i can't have any time to be quiet in4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,may #ca1 #ahii4 ,you can't think how funny it is--but finding the power of oil-painting now1 my curious mind is wishing to see1 and seeing1 all subjects large2 it seems as if my long-ago and ever-constant wish--to paint a life-size hedge--might now be realised4 ,what a divine thing to do6 ,a life-sized girl in the front and then the large foxgloves and wild roses1 and strawberries on the ground4 ,i should be lost in my picture4 ,i should have to have a stool that moved up and carried me about over my picture4 ,all the same ,i should not wonder if ,i do do a life-size thing6 ,perhaps ,i have hopes of the capacity of oil paint that won't be realised1 but it is nice to get a medium to work in that does what you want more at once4 ,i don't like small oil things half as much as water-colours--but ,i do lose the go of things in water-colours4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,june #g1 #ahii4 ,i went to the ,tate ,gallery the other afternoon1 and somehow ,i didn't like it--much4 ,it is a beautiful ,gallery1 but somehow tomb-like--and my dearest-loved of ,english pictures1 ,millais' #8,ophelia1' doesn't look its best there4 ,now ,i feel this picture ought to have a gallery that suits it exactly6 but perhaps some other time ,i may go and like it ever so much4 ,as it was1 ,i grieve to say1 the entrance was what ,i liked best1 going out and coming in4 ,there's the beautiful river and the boats and the opposite shore of wharves and buildings1 and ,i felt how nice it must be at ,venice to come out and find the sea--,i do like the sea--or a large river to every town4 ,but this view of the ,thames fascinated me--like seeing the river from the drawing-room at the ,speaker's house4 ,i am almost getting to think that an oil-picture does undergo a change a little while after it is painted--,i mean twenty or forty years--and then if it is a real good one settles itself into remaining a wonderful thing for ever4 ,for some of the pictures of forty years ago get a curious look4 ,i'm thinking of ,egg1 and that time--or are they not quite good enough8 ,for the ,leslies remain charming4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,illustration ,june #bb1 #ahii4 ,the air is scented with the hay--everywhere--and the wilderness of the garden has fallen before a very hard-working young gardener4 ,i loved it all overgrown1 but the gardener told me when he saw it he could not come again1 he felt so depressed4 ,queer1 isn't it1 how differently people feel8 ,it is very fresh and flowery at this moment4 ,the rain has brought out the flowers4 ,there are roses1 white peonies1 purple irises1 large herbaceous poppies1 lupins1 syringa1 marigolds1 foxgloves1 delphiniums1 and campanulas1 and day lilies1 and many others4 ,it is the garden's best moment1 and it is summery and not that frightful heat which is too much for me4 ,do get ,elizabeth and her ,german ,garden4 ,it suggests ,alfred ,austin's garden books but it is amusing and pretty4444 ,i am depressed often when ,i can't do this new painting as ,i like4 ,i take a rush on and think every difficulty is over--when ,i find myself suddenly plunged deeper than ever in things that won't come right--but they've got to--they don't know that1 but it is so--,i'm not going to be beaten4 ,i can see loveliness surely4 ,my fingers have got to learn to do what my eyes wish--they will have to--so there it is4 ,i see such colour and ,i can't find a paint to make it4 ,in water-colour ,i could get any colour ,i could see1 but ,i can't in oils4 ,i get something pretty like2 then in a day or two some underneath colour has worked up and horrid colour is the result4 ,however1 ,i'm beginning to find out many things1 so ,i hope as ,i go on working ,i may get to do it all right4 ,it poured with rain here yesterday4 ,i hope this may make the gardener less depressed when he contemplates our weeds4 ,poor weeds--fine tall fresh green thistles and docks spreading out their leaves in lovely curves4 ,i'm sorry for all the things that are not much wanted on this earth4--,and long ago1 ,i loved docks2 we used to play with the seeds and pretend it was tea4 ,we used to have a tea-shop and weigh it out and sell it for tea4 ,perhaps docks do not mean that for any one else in the world--like the purple mallow and the seeds ,i used to call cheeses1 sweet little flat green things1 do you know8 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,july #be1 #ahii4 ,dear ,rover's pride has had a fall4 ,there are two swans have come to live on the ,white ,stone pond1 and ,rover goes and swims there on his way home4 ,johnny said he could see the people round the pond laughing1 and when he got up to it there was ,rover swimming about as if the pond belonged to him1 while the swans who thought it belonged to them were fluttering their wings and craning their necks4 ,rover still remained unconcerned and imperturbable1 when one of the swans took hold of his tail and pulled it6 ,this did vanquish ,rover1 who left the pond hurriedly amidst the derisive laughter of the bystanders4 ,he has some nice friendly swans on the other pond who swim up and down with him4 ,i suppose he thought all swans were alike4 ,i am curious to know if he goes in to-day4444 ,dear ,rover stood firm and did go in4 ,johnny saw him quite unconcerned swimming about with the swans flapping about at the back4 ,now don't you think this was much to his credit8 ,i only hope they won't peck him6 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,edmund ,,evans ,dear ,mrs4 ,evans--,you don't know how ,i feel that ,i don't get time to write--you must think it horrid--but ,i have so many things to do because ,i can't afford to pay for them being done1 and my little leisure bit of time is taken up writing to ,mr4 ,ruskin every week--for now he can't go out1 or often do things that mean so much to him4 ,then ,i am trying to do children's portraits life-size--in oils2 this means giving up a lot of time to practising1 a year possibly1 and making no money4 ,then ,i've the house to see to and my dresses and needlework and trying to write my life--as you will1 ,i think1 see there is a good deal more than a day's work in each day4 ,i want to come and see you very much but ,i fear ,i can't before the autumn--then ,i shall try4 ,i have wanted rather to go somewhere quite by myself to the sea to try to get on with my book4 ,i might come near you1 if not to stay with you4 ,i hope you like ,ventnor and that it suits ,mr4 ,evans4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,stick ,,fire4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,harry ,j4 ,veitch1 ,esq4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,sept4 #ahii4 ,illustration ,do you know1 ,i've had a great deal of pleasure out of oak branches and acorns--what a lovely green they are6 ,one day walking by the sea1 ,i saw a little bit of lovely emerald green on the sand4 ,when ,i looked to see what it was there were two acorns6 shining and looking so brilliant4 ,i could not have thought a small thing could show so much colour4 ,i go on liking things more and more1 seeing them more and more beautiful4 ,don't you think it is a great possession to be able to get so much joy out of things that are always there to give it1 and do not change8 ,what a great pity my hands are not clever enough to do what my mind and eyes see1 but there it is6 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,nov4 #g1 #ahii4 ,there are not any very good children's books about just now that ,i have seen4 ,the rage for copying mine seems over1 so ,i suppose some one will soon step to the front with something new4 ,children often don't care a bit about the books people think they will1 and ,i think they often like grown-up books--at any rate ,i did4 ,from the ,kenny ,meadows pictures to ,shakespeare ,i learnt all the plays when ,i was very young indeed4 ,it is curious how much pictures can tell you--like the plays without words4 ,i suppose ,i asked a good deal about them and was told1 and read little bits anyhow4 ,i never remember the time when ,i didn't know what each play was about4 ,they were my ,sunday evening's amusement1 and another book called ,the ,illuminated ,magazine#gf that had all sorts of things in it4 ,some ,i specially liked1 called #8,the ,recreations of ,mr4 ,zig-,zag the ,elder4' ,perhaps you know the magazine4 ,and then there were accounts of the old ,london ,churches and old places of interest3 the ,lollards' ,tower1 ,st4 ,john's ,gate1 ,st4 ,bartholomew's ,church4 ,no1 ,i believe these were in a book called ,the ,family ,magazine4 ,i believe one of our three cherished large volumes was that name1--the other two the ,illuminated4 ,how much prettier those old illustrations are than the modern engraved photograph4 ,i hate the modern book and magazine illustration4 ,but there is a ,,but--the illustrations of ,hugh ,thomson and ,anning ,bell1 also ,byam ,shaw1 are quite beautiful and quite different4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,nov4 #bf1 #ahii4 ,i am rather liking red and blue just now4 ,i suppose it is the winter makes all faint colours look so pale4 ,i like the strong warm colours of scarlet--it is nice to do4 ,i always like painting fur1 which ,i think is rather curious1 for ,i don't like painting hair and never do it well4 ,rembrandt painted hair so beautifully--the portrait of ,saskia with the fair hair hanging down was so beautifully done2 ,i did envy that4 ,then ,correggio also--do you remember ,cupid's curls8 so lovely2 and some of ,sir ,joshua's1 the ,angels' heads--their hair is done so wonderfully4 ,fair hair is more difficult to paint than dark2 ,i spoil mine by getting the darks too dark in it1 so losing the fair colour of it1 though ,i do think it is easier in oils than in water-colours4 ,illustration3 ,,two ,,at ,a ,,stile4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,mrs4 ,levy4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,dec4 #e1 #ahii4 ,there is going to be an exhibition for children at the ,fine ,art--the ,private ,view is on ,saturday--but ,i think it is very likely the children won't appreciate it4 ,i often notice that they don't at all care for what grown-up people think they will4 ,for one thing1 they like something that excites their imagination--a very real thing mixed up with a great unreality like ,blue ,beard4 ,how ,i used to be thrilled by #8,sister ,ann1 ,sister ,ann1' done by the servants in the agonised voice of ,blue ,beard's wife1 and ,i could hardly breathe when the stains would not come off the key4--,those wonderful little books they used to sell in coloured covers1 a penny and a halfpenny each--they were condensed and dramatic4 ,they are spoilt now by their profuseness4 ,i never cared so much for ,jack the ,giant-,killer1 or ,jack and the ,beanstalk1 or ,tom ,thumb1 as ,i did for ,the ,sleeping ,beauty in the ,wood1 ,cinderella1 and ,beauty and the ,beast4 ,i did not like ,puss in ,boots as well either4 ,of course they were all deeply fascinating1 but the three pretty ones ,i liked best4 ,it would be curious to do a book of them from one's remembrance of them in one's early thoughts4 ,i know my ,blue ,beard people were not dressed as ,turks then4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,ruskin ,dec4 #ac1 #ahii4 ,it has been so dark lately1 ,i'm quite afraid to do my things4 ,for a dark day does so much harm--just spoils everything4 ,i'm getting quite used to oil now1 but ,i still make out things too much1 especially the lines round the eyelids4 ,it is a pity1 but ,i always have that tendency and this dark weather makes it worse4 ,i hope ,i may get out of it in time--but ,i may never4 ,dear ,rover has hurt his foot and is quite sulky because ,johnny has gone out this evening4 ,he expects us always to be at home now4 ,you will say to yourself1 why does she write such silly letters to me just now8 and they are4 ,it is my mind has got too much in it--more than it can hold4 ,now you will say1 #8,oh1 ,i don't think her mind has got anything in it at all4' ,what do you think it is doing8--,trying to write a play in the midst of all this bother6 ,now ,i never could think out a plot to write a story about1 and here1 at this most inopportune moment1 a play has got into my mind and insists on being written1 and goes on and on and develops in a quite curious manner4 ,and there am ,i with no time to spare and it will be written down--isn't that funny8 ,of course it won't be good or of any use--only ,i must do it6 ,on ,saturday1 the #bjth ,january #aijj1 the following entry which says so little1 but meant so much to ,kate ,greenaway1 appears in her diary--#8,mr4 ,ruskin died to-day at #b4cj in the afternoon from influenza4' ,for him there could be no regret that the #8black archwaygate had swung open to the glittering fields of freedom1' but for those left behind it would be hard to say by how much the world was the poorer4 ,it was not characteristic of her to say much when she felt most deeply4 ,it was ,mr4 ,stuart ,samuel who broke the news to her4 #8,on ,sunday1' she wrote to ,mrs4 ,evans1 #8some people came in and said they had seen from the papers he was dead4 ,i didn't believe it1 but the next morning ,i got letters from ,brantwood4' ,then on the following day she wrote in her trouble3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mr4 ,m4 ,h4 ,,spielmann #bb ,january #aijj4 ,i'm dreadfully sorry about ,mr4 ,ruskin's death4 ,it was a great shock4 ,i only heard from ,mrs4 ,severn on ,saturday morning2 she said then he had influenza1 but they did not think of any danger4 ,i've heard again to-day--they only knew there was any fear of it being fatal between #aj and #aa ,saturday morning4 ,he died at half-past #b1 entirely painlessly all through4 ,i feel it very much1 for he was a great friend--and there is no one else like him4 ,soon she came round to talk it over and open her heart to this correspondent1 who had known ,ruskin1 too1 and loved him well4 ,and it will be observed that up to his death1 never in her letters to ,ruskin did she write a word about her own ill-health1 lest she should distress one for whom she had so affectionate and unselfish a friendship4 ,illustration3 ,,study ,,from ,,life4 ,illustration 7#8,ronald's ,clock'7 in #8,littledom ,castle1' by ,mrs4 ,m4 ,h4 ,spielmann1 7,g4 ,routledge ,sons47 ,miss ,greenaway was now invited by the ,royal ,commission to contribute as a ,british artist to the ,water-,colour and ,black-and-,white of the ,paris ,exhibition of #aijj1 when it was hoped that she would repeat her success of eleven years before4 ,she had written to ,ruskin that she was #8too busy to take any trouble over it1' and to a friend to whom she paid the compliment of coming for occasional counsel1 she wrote as follows1 after due deliberation3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mr4 ,m4 ,h4 ,,spielmann ,i have decided not to send to the ,paris ,exhibition4 ,i have nothing good enough and ,i don't know who has my things--,i can't think of anything ,i would like to send4 ,i feel pencil drawings look so very pale when they get placed with strong coloured things4 ,don't you think it better not to send unless you send your best8 ,there was no time to do anything1 and ,i did not want to leave the oil work4 ,to her question there could be only one answer1 and the artist was unrepresented at ,paris4 ,the state of her health was now giving serious anxiety to her friends4 ,she certainly had undertaken and was able to carry to completion the illustrations to ,the ,april ,baby's ,book of ,tunes1 by the author of ,elizabeth and her ,german ,garden1 which was published towards the end of the year1 but signs of failing power were only too evident4 ,the ,april ,baby illustrations1 which were reproduced by chromolithography in place of ,mr4 ,evans's wood-engraving1 to which admirers of her work had become accustomed1 though charming enough and in harmony with the spirit of the book1 are inferior to ,mr4 ,evans's interpretations1 and add not much to her reputation4 ,a curious fact connected with them is recorded in the following letter received by us from the delightful and exhilarating author3-- ,in answer to your letter ,i can only tell you that ,i did not1 unfortunately1 know ,miss ,kate ,greenaway personally1 and that while she was illustrating the ,april ,baby's ,book of ,tunes we only occasionally wrote to each other about it4 ,i felt quite sure that her pictures would be charming and did not like to bother her with letters full of my own crude ideas4 ,it was odd that1 though she had never seen the babies or their photographs1 her pictures were so much like what the babies were at that time that ,i have often been asked whether she had sketched them from life4 ,her letters were exceedingly kind1 and one of the ,april ,baby's most precious possessions is a copy she sent her of ,marigold ,garden with a little pen-and-ink figure on the fly-leaf drawn specially for her4 ,she wrote me that she had been ill for a long time and had not been able to work at my illustrations1 and that they had all been crowded into a few weeks at the end of the time given her by the publishers4 ,she apparently thought they had suffered from this1 but ,i think most people will agree that they are as charming as anything she ever did4 ,naturally ,i was extremely pleased to have the weaknesses of my story hidden behind such a pretty string of daintiness4 ,so peculiarly simple and kind were her letters that even a stranger like myself who only knew her through them felt1 when she died1 that there was one sweet nature the less in the world4--,believe me1 yours very truly1 ,,the ,,author ,,of #8,,elizabeth ,,and ,,her ,,german ,,garden4' ,that she now rather shrank from undertaking work of this kind we have already seen from the letter written to ,mr4 ,m4 ,h4 ,spielmann1 who1 as a friend of some years' standing1 asked her if she would be disposed to illustrate one of his wife's stories which were appearing in ,little ,folks1 and were afterwards published in book form4 ,in the event1 the book1 which contains brilliant drawings by several leading black-and-white artists of the day1 was not lacking in two from the pencil of ,kate ,greenaway4 ,at the same time her letters are sadly eloquent of her failing health3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,h4 ,,spielmann #aa ,jan4 #aija4 ,it is so long since ,i have seen you--so long since ,i have been4 ,it has not been my fault4 ,i have not been well enough4 ,i seem to have been ill all the year4 ,i had a long illness all the autumn which ,i am not yet recovered from--and then colds so bad they have been illnesses4444 ,i have seen no one hardly and done so little work4 ,i'm so sorry when ,i don't work4 ,for the time so soon goes and ,i always have so much ,i want to do1 and just now there are so many beautiful pictures to go and see4444 ,i hope you will believe that though ,i have not been to see you ,i have often thought of you and wished to see you4 ,illustration3 ,,waiting4 ,from a coloured chalk drawing in the possession of the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby4 ,ruskin's birthday was on the #hth of ,february4 ,on the first anniversary of it a year after his death1 ,kate wrote to ,mrs4 ,severn3-- #ci1 ,,frognal1 ,,hampstead1 ,n4,w41 #g ,february #aija4 ,my dearest ,joanie--,to-morrow is a sad day again4 ,how ,i always wish ,i had done so much1 much more4 ,and ,i should have if life had not been so difficult to me of late years4444 ,if it would get warmer ,i could get out2 then ,i should get stronger4 ,as it is ,i take everything ,i can4 ,this is the little programme3 medicine1 #i times a day2 beef tea1 #h times2 port wine1 champagne1 brandy and soda1 eggs and milk4 ,i'm all day at it4 ,can ,i do more8 ,am ,i not a victim8 ,my dearest love to you4 ,your loving ,,katie4 ,a few days later she writes to ,mrs4 ,spielmann3-- 444 ,i am really1 ,i think1 getting much better now1 and when ,i have been away ,i hope ,i may return to my usual self4 ,i have never been well enough to go to see you though ,i have often wished to4 ,since this time last year there has only been one month 7,june7 without the doctor coming4 ,i have felt it so trying being ill so long4 ,yet in spite of her illness it must not be supposed that ,kate's desire for industry ever flagged for a moment4 ,she was full of schemes for books--not merely projected schemes1 but plans fully matured1 first sketches made1 and pages fully #8set-out4' ,there was a book of #8sonnets' of her own--7she called them sonnets1 though not all of them were in sonnet form7--plaintive1 dreamy1 and frequently a little morbid2 and the water-colour drawings to these are occasionally quite or almost complete4 ,the water-colour sketch called #8,dead1' here reproduced1 is one of these4 ,then there was a new ,blake's ,songs of ,innocence1 to be published at a shilling net1 each song with at least one drawing2 this was so fully worked out that for certain of the designs several sketches were made4 ,no fewer than twenty-two sketches were designed for a volume of ,nursery ,rhymes2 there are fourteen to ,baby's ,dbut2 and twelve and four respectively to ,hans ,christian ,andersen's ,snow ,queen and ,what the ,moon ,saw4 ,and1 finally1 ,a ,book of ,girls was to be illustrated with six of her daintiest pictures4 ,a brave programme1 surely1 with sketches made1 ready to be carried into execution2 but publishers were doubtful1 their enterprise declined1 and offers were so little generous1 that the schemes were not pursued4 ,several friends sought to remove the discouragement under which ,kate ,greenaway was now labouring1 in order to open up new vistas of activity and success in other walks than those she had trodden hitherto3 not merely to salve her wounded amour propre but to spare her the natural worry incident to the diminution of her earning powers4 ,for some time she had herself schemed a great dressmaking business in her own name1 with herself as designer2 but it never got beyond the talking stage1 and that mainly with her sister ,fanny--,mrs4 ,dadd4 ,then she had the idea of modelling bas-reliefs in gesso for decorative purposes2 but that also came to nothing4 ,for her heart was in her drawing and painting1 and she welcomed cordially a suggestion that the ,editor of the ,magazine of ,art should write an article on #8,the ,later ,work of ,kate ,greenaway1' partly in order to draw public attention to her oil-painting1 but mainly to bring forward once more her name as an active art-worker1 for she was firmly persuaded that she was well-nigh forgotten--#8forgotten1' the bitterest word in all the vocabulary to one who has been a public favourite and whose name has rung throughout the world4 ,then1 in ,august of #aija1 ,miss ,greenaway was offered the post of editor of a new ,magazine for children at a handsome salary1 but she refused it1 not only because she felt her strength unequal to so exacting an undertaking1 but also because she doubted whether she possessed the necessary qualifications4 ,but sadly enough for the many who loved her the first of these reasons was all too cogent1 for only three short months were to pass before #8finis' was to be written both to work and life4 ,a fortnight before she had written to ,mrs4 ,stuart ,samuel from ,cromer3-- ,i've been very ill--acute muscular rheumatism--horribly painful4 ,i am now1 ,i hope1 getting better4 ,it has been so in my mind the wish to write to you4 ,you were so kind1 it felt ungrateful to disappear in silence4444--,your affectionate ,,kate ,,greenaway4 ,and again1 ten days before she passed away3 #8,i should love a drive when ,i'm well enough4 ,i will write and tell you how ,i get on2 then1 if you will1 take me one day4 ,with my love4' ,but the end came1 at #ci1 ,frognal1 on ,november #fth4 ,the privacy she wished for in life was observed at her death2 only a few friends attended in the ,chapel of the ,cremation ,society's ,cemetery at ,woking1 on ,november #abth2 fewer still on the day following1 when the casket was quietly interred at ,hampstead ,cemetery4 ,but the proofs were overwhelming that she was in a multitude of hearts on that day4 ,at the news of her passing a chorus of eulogy and regret went up from the press4 ,writers and critics1 ,english and ,american1 ,french and ,german1 vied with one another to do honour to the memory of one who had spent her life in spreading joy and beauty about her without the faintest taint of vulgarity1 without the slightest hint of aught but what was pure and delicate1 joyous and refined4 ,tender and respectful1 admiring and grateful1 saddened with the note of heartfelt sorrow1 these tributes one and all bore witness to the beauty of her life and work4 ,of them all none touches a sweeter and a truer chord than the farewell homage of her friend1 ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson3#gg-- ,k4 ,g4 ,,nov3 ,,vi3 #aija ,farewell1 kind heart4 ,and if there be ,in that unshored ,immensity ,child-,angels1 they will welcome thee4 ,clean-souled1 clear-eyed1 unspoiled1 discreet1 ,thou gav'st thy gifts to make ,life sweet1-- ,these shall be flowers about thy feet6 ,for a few years preceding her death ,kate ,greenaway had occupied herself much with trying to express her feelings in artless and simple verse4 ,in #ahif we find her writing to ,miss ,dickinson with her customary pluck and energy3-- ,each night when ,i go to bed ,i read a little bit of ,browning--they are so wonderful--each time ,i read one ,i like it better than ever4 ,that fires me with ambition to try to write something1 and ,i do try1 and they won't come good2 isn't it hateful of them to be so poor and weak8 ,but ,i'm going to try more than ever1 and ,i'm going to try other things too if only ,i can keep well4 ,i do mean to try and do a little more in my life4 ,i'm not content1 for ,i have not yet expressed myself4 ,it's such a queer feeling1 that longing to express yourself and not finding a means or way--yet it goads you on and won't let you rest4 ,the following sonnet1 a characteristic and appropriate example1 was written when she already felt the coldness of the advancing shadow1 and it may be accepted as reflecting her own view of the ,great ,hereafter3-- ,when ,i am dead1 and all of you stand round ,and look upon me1 my soul flown away ,into a new existence--far from the sound ,of this world's noise1 and this world's night and day3 ,no more the inexplicable soul in this strange mortal body1 ,this world and it in severance eternal3 ,no more my presence here shall it embody1 ,no more shall take its place in time diurnal-- ,what beauteous land may ,i be wandering in ,while you stand gazing at what once was ,i8 ,why1 ,i may be to gold harps listening ,and plucking flowers of ,immortality-- ,why1 ,heaven's blue skies may shine above my head ,while you stand there--and say that ,i am dead6 ,in the year following ,kate ,greenaway's death1 a fourth ,exhibition of her works was held at the ,fine ,art ,society's ,gallery4 ,these were in no sense #8the remaining works of an artist lately deceased1' as auctioneers' catalogues commonly have it1 nor yet was it a memorial exhibition4 ,it was1 like those of #ahia1 #ahid1 and #ahih1 the result of labour undertaken with the definite purpose of showing what she could accomplish1 and of claiming once again the suffrages of the collector4 ,the only difference--a difference that weighed upon every visitor to the ,gallery--was that the hand which had produced them was now stiff and the gentle heart by which they were inspired had ceased to beat4 ,the most important pictures sold were #8,little ,girl in ,purple1' #8,little ,girl in ,blue and ,white1' #8,visitors1' #8,boy with ,basket of ,apples1' #8,procession of ,girls with ,roses1' #8,little ,girl in ,red ,pelisse1' #8,procession of ,girls with ,flowers1' #8,the ,doorway1' #8,doubts1' #8,girl in ,orange ,dress 7seated71' unfinished1 #8,cottage with ,children1' #8,girl seated by a ,rose ,tree1' #8,strawberries1' #8,children passing through the ,apple ,trees1' #8,susan and ,mary and ,emily1 with their sweet round mouths sing ,ha6 ha6 ha1' and #8,a ,little ,girl in ,big ,hat with ,basket of ,roses4' ,in a table case were also exhibited a selection from the illustrated letters written by ,kate to ,john ,ruskin1 from which many of the thumb-nail sketches reproduced in this book are taken4 ,illustration3 ,,sketch-,,design ,,for ,,the ,,plate ,,affixed ,,above ,,the ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,cot ,,in ,,the ,,great ,,ormond ,,street ,,hospital4 ,designed by ,mrs4 ,arthur ,lasenby ,liberty4 ,,the ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,cot ,,endowed ,,by ,,friends ,,and ,,admirers #aijc ,,committee ,,chairman1 ,,sir ,,thomas ,,wardle1 ,j4,p4 ,,hon4 ,,treas4 ,m,r ,,arthur ,l4 ,,liberty1 ,j4,p4,d4,l4 ,,hon4 ,,sec4 ,,sir ,,arthur ,,trendell1 ,c4,m4,g4 ,,lady ,,dorothy ,,nevill1 ,,lady ,,maria ,,ponsonby1 ,,lady ,,vera ,,herbert1 ,,hon4 ,,lady ,,fremantle1 ,,lady ,,jeune1 ,m,,rs ,,locker-,,lampson1 ,,miss ,,meresia ,,nevill1 ,,sir ,,william ,,agnew1 ,,bt4 ,,sir ,,george ,,birdwood ,n4,c4,i4,e41 ,c4,s4,i41 ,,sir ,,caspar ,,purdon ,,clarke ,c4,i4,e41 ,m,r ,,walter ,,crane1 ,a4,r4,w4,s41 ,m,r ,,harold ,,hartley1 ,m4,j4,s41 ,m,r ,,marion ,h4 ,,spielmann1 ,m,r ,,aston ,,webb1 ,a4,r4,a41 ,m,r ,,arthur ,w4 ,a4 ,,beckett1 ,f4,j4,i41 ,for the sake of those who have not enjoyed the privilege of seeing any of her original work it should be mentioned that in the ,art ,library of the ,victoria and ,albert ,museum there are ten of her water-colour drawings1 among them illustrations to the ,language of ,flowers1 ,little ,ann1 and the ,almanacks1 while in the ,picture ,gallery at this time of writing hang #8,p peeped in it1' an illustration for ,a ,apple ,pie1 one of the illustrations for ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life1 and #8,three ,girls in ,white4' 99 99 99 99 99 ,although such a one as ,kate ,greenaway is scarcely likely to be forgotten1 a movement was quickly set on foot by some of her friends in order to perpetuate her memory in some appropriately practical fashion1 and a committee was formed #8for the purpose of promoting a scheme which will secure a fitting memorial to the late ,kate ,greenaway1 who filled so distinctive a place in the ,art world1 and whose charming treatment of child-life endeared her to every home in the ,empire4' ,the committee consisted of ,lady ,dorothy ,nevill 7at whose house the meetings were held71 ,lady ,maria ,ponsonby1 ,lady ,victoria ,herbert1 ,lady ,fremantle1 ,lady ,jeune 7,lady ,st4 ,helier71 ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson1 ,miss ,meresia ,nevill1 ,mr4 ,arthur ,beckett1 ,sir ,william ,agnew1 ,sir ,george ,birdwood1 ,sir ,caspar ,purdon ,clarke1 ,mr4 ,walter ,crane1 ,mr4 ,harold ,hartley1 ,mr4 ,m4 ,h4 ,spielmann1 ,sir ,arthur ,trendell 7hon4 secretary71 ,sir ,thomas ,wardle 7chairman71 and ,sir ,aston ,webb1 with ,mr4 ,arthur ,l4 ,liberty as hon4 treasurer4 ,the amount of the subscriptions collected--to which ,sir ,squire ,bancroft largely added by his fine reading in ,st4 ,james's ,hall of ,the ,christmas ,carol--reached #idi1 which when the expenses were deducted left the sum of #ggi4 ,it was decided to endow a cot in the ,great ,ormond ,street ,hospital for ,children--a form of memorial which would assuredly have appealed most strongly to ,kate ,greenaway herself1 supposing it possible that so modest a person would have agreed to or authorised any memorial at all4 ,in due course the purpose of the committee was carried into effect2 and a dedication plate1 designed by ,mrs4 ,liberty1 is now affixed above a little bed4 ,and when the little ones who lie sick in the hospital ward ask the meaning of the plate upon the wall they are told of one who in spite of much physical weakness and suffering devoted herself whole-heartedly to bringing happiness and delight into the lives of others1 particularly of children4 ,illustration3 ,,spring ,,time4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,henry ,silver1 ,esq4 ,,chapter ,,xv ,,verse-,,writing3 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,feeling ,,for ,,poetry--,,problem1 ,,tragedy1 ,,and ,,resignation--,,charm ,,of ,,her ,,verses ,,for ,,children--,,on ,,death4 ,from the early days when ,kate ,greenaway submitted her crude verses to ,mr4 ,w4 ,marcus ,ward and found little encouragement1 down to the very end of her life1 she spent no inconsiderable portion of her time in fluttering around the base of ,parnassus4 ,competent critics1 as we have seen1 expressed the opinion that there was poetic fancy and feeling in many of these early attempts4 ,four thick volumes of neatly written manuscript running to hundreds of pages testify to the industry with which ,miss ,greenaway followed what she says to her infinite regret proved to be a vain hope4 ,it is not given to every genius to shine in two spheres4 ,these curious volumes as they stand make tantalising reading4 ,a hundred telling themes are gaily launched on a sea of words and all goes well1 until we are disturbed by mixed metaphor1 faulty rhyme1 and defective rhythm1 and only here and there do we find a poem which is sustained and carried on successfully to the end4 ,the fact is1 ,kate ,greenaway--so she told her sister to whom she would read her verses--regarded these efforts only as rough drafts from which she intended some day to select the best and put them into form4 ,she herself considered them defective alike in rhyme1 rhythm1 and metre1 and admitted that they needed rewriting1 and she made fair copies into her ,,ms4 volumes only in order to preserve her ideas until she could find time to express herself adequately according to the rules of versification4 ,indeed she did not seem to regard any of them as finished4 ,this should be borne in mind by the reader who would deny these efforts serious consideration1 or who would admit them only on the ground that no #8,life' of ,kate ,greenaway would be complete or truly reflective of the artist's work without some reference to an occupation which filled her mind during many years of her career4 ,how far ,miss ,greenaway might ultimately have gone it is difficult to say2 but we cannot doubt that she possessed some of the qualities of a poet4 ,hers was a mind full of subtle and beautiful thoughts of a sweet and simple kind1 struggling to give them lucid expression4 ,let us take for example the following lines in which the anticlimax is really cleverly managed3-- ,it is so glorious just to say ,i loved him all at once--one day-- ,a winter's day4 ,then came the spring ,and only deepend the thing4 ,i think it deepen'd--,i'm not sure ,if there was room to love you more4 ,then summer followed--and my love ,took colour from the skies above4 ,then weeks--and months--and years there came1 ,and ,i1 well1 loved on--just the same4 ,then1 dear1 stretch out your hands--and let me lie ,within them as ,i slowly die1 ,then stoop your head to mine and give-- ,ah1 not a kiss--or ,i should live4 ,it must not be forgotten that1 like most bright and happy and keenly sensitive natures1 ,miss ,greenaway had many moments of melancholy1 almost of morbidness1 which she attributed to her being #8a quarter ,welsh4' ,on this element of national sadness she laid the responsibility of her passion for writing love-verses1 of a character so yearning and despairing1 that she almost found herself1 with rles inverted1 playing the ,beatrice to some unknown ,dante4 ,it pleased and soothed her to work out a poetic problem--to imagine herself appealing to some foolish heartless swain blind to her love and deaf to her appeal--and to feel her way as she developed the character and mind of the lovelorn lady4 ,the case was not her own1 and for that reason1 no doubt1 the experiment was the more alluring4 ,she returned to it again and again1 constantly from a different point2 and poem after poem is expressive of a passionate desire for a love which never came4 ,page after page is devoted to apostrophising the imaginary one who is somewhere in the world1 sometimes perhaps even seeking her--seeking but not finding4 ,first1 her heroine takes upon herself the blame for losing him--#8,you smiled and ,i turned me away'2 and then declares that the fault is his for hanging back1 for--#8man is a fool--such a fool'-- ,ah1 cold1 faint-hearted1 go--,i tell you go6 ,dear ,god1 to think ,i could have loved you so6444 ,his eyes were blind that he could not see ,as he turned away to the world from me 444 ,and his soul ,sought out--a lower soul4 444 ,it may be ,one day ,god ,will tell you that you missed ,the ,higher ,part4 ,you grasped the grass ,who might have held the flower4 ,you took a stone ,who might have won a heart4 444 ,he looks back ,over the years ,of the rift and the wrack-- ,and the lover's soul cries to her soul3-- ,oh1 can you forgive me8 ,i know to my cost ,the ,life that ,i've missed1 ,the ,life that ,i've lost4 ,soul1 ,can you pardon this soul8 ,god bless you1 dear1 always and ever1 ,god bless you and bless you ,i say4 ,and ,i know you will pray for the coward1 ,the fool who once threw you away4 ,soul1 when the stars shine ,think sometimes of this soul4 ,later on1 he is not content with forgiveness1 but is praying to be taken back4 ,but it is too late1 for ,you rejected--threw the gift away1 ,and now bring tears and sorrowful complaint4 ,i call you coward1 playing at babies' play4 ,the woman made no sound1 or any plaint1 ,but took her lot and kept her bitter tears ,in silence all alone and unbefriended-- ,now take her scorn for all the coming years4 ,that is her answer1 till her life is ended4 ,then in the verses entitled #8,the ,you that was not ,you' she makes the discovery that-- ,the ,you ,i loved was my creation--mine1 ,without a counterpart within yourself4 ,i gave you thoughts and soul and heart ,taken from ,love's ideal4444 ,and so the first dream ends and she brings her heroine to a saner mood1 with the discovery that all these bitter experiences and disappointments have been sent by ,god to teach her that she has been pre-ordained to an anchorite's life of ,art1 for ,art's sake4 ,then half regretful1 half resigned1 she carries on her character a stage3 ,a lonely soul1 ,i am ever alone4 ,if love ever comes it is quickly gone-- ,nothing abides and nothing stays4 ,i think ,i have found it1 but only to know ,how very soon it is all to go4 ,the sunshine is followed by falling snow4 ,there are sometimes moments when ,i see ,a sort of divinity in it for me1 ,to keep me separate and alone2 ,to hold away and keep my heart ,all for my work1 set aside and apart1 ,as if ,i were vowed away to ,art4 ,and then there comes a happier moment when something breaks into her life to compensate and console her for her renunciations3-- ,for the world had found a new and lovely voice ,to teach and train me in her secret ways1 ,and ,i saw beauty in all things that are ,and knew that ,i was blest for all my days4 ,above the world now1 above its good and ill1 ,i ventured on a new and lovely life-- ,sesame6 had been said and ,i passed in1 ,my soul and body no more waged a strife4 ,shall ,i not think you then1 oh1 best of all8 ,shall ,i not call you ,friend1 and say--#8tis ,he ,who shook away the chaff and saved the grain ,and gave the whole--,god's ,heaven--unto me8 ,illustration3 ,,swansdown4 #8,girl in hat with feather1 hat trimmed with swansdown and yellow ribbons4' ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,esq41 ,m4,p4 ,the verses here quoted are fair examples of her powers and of her limitations1 so far as it is fair to speak of limitations when the verses are avowedly but studies for the finished work1 the uncut and unpolished stones4 ,the expression of the ideas is consequently crude1 but the ideas are clearly there and have at least become articulate4 ,they are not mock heroics1 but the half-spoken utterances of real passion1 of the baulked1 helpless1 disillusioned woman of her creation1 who is emerging into a philosophic and sufficiently satisfactory state of mind4 ,and they are representative of by far the larger portion of her literary output4 ,what ,kate ,greenaway might have accomplished had she devoted as much time to verses for children as in accumulating poetic material of an introspective nature1 may be gathered from the pretty and dainty rhymes with which every one who is familiar with her books is well acquainted4 ,it may be seen1 too1 from the following lines from #8,the ,getting ,up of the ,king's ,little ,daughter'--in which she has many pretty ideas around which she wanders1 grasping them fully from time to time4 ,here is a dainty couplet describing the little princess's bath3-- ,then she rises and fresh water ,swallows up the ,king's small daughter2 and the conclusion-- ,for her breakfast there is spread ,freshest milk and whitest bread1 ,yellow butter1 golden honey1 ,the best there is for love or money4 ,so1 too1 in #8,girls in a ,garden1' a prettily clothed thought here and there stands out deliciously3-- ,the ,roses red white fingers take ,and ,lilies for their own sweet sake-- is surely a little picture of which no one need to be ashamed4 ,so too-- ,by ,hollyhocks they measure who ,is grown the taller of the two2 and-- ,the sky is laughing in white and blue-- reveal to us the true ,kate ,greenaway of ,under the ,window and ,language of ,flowers1 illustrating the sisterhood of her pencil and her pen4 ,and again there is a touch of infantile delight in the artless little verse-- ,oh1 what a silken stocking1 ,and what a satin shoe6 ,i wish ,i was a little toe ,to live in there1 ,i do4 ,is it too much to say that had ,kate ,greenaway given as much time and energy to such verses as these as she did to her more ambitious efforts1 she might be acclaimed the ,babies' laureate as unchallenged on her pinnacle as she is supreme as the ,children's ,artist8 ,from the melancholy of her imaginary heroine1 and from the brightness of her joyous self when she appeals to her vast child-constituency1 we may turn to the occasional depression which is mirrored in some of her late verses when she considers her own life and achievement4 ,it is not to be supposed for a moment that ,kate ,greenaway was morbid naturally1 but she was easily dejected1 particularly when1 as we have seen1 she fell into despair on realising that the world had forgotten her and passed her by while her imitators were reaping the reward which her own genius and originality had sown4 ,had she fallen out of fashion merely she would not have complained2 it was the denseness of the public who willingly accepted the counterfeit for the genuine that hurt her4 ,more than once she casts these feelings into rhyme3-- ,deserted1 cast away1 my work all done1 ,who was a star that shone a little while1 ,but fallen now and all its brightness gone-- ,a victim of this world's brief fickle smile4 ,poor fool and vain1 grieve not for what is lost1 ,nor rend thy heart by counting up the cost4 ,in spite of the mixed metaphor we must recognise a sincere thought sincerely expressed--no mere idle complaint1 but a disappointment honestly and courageously borne4 ,and she proceeds-- ,we walk1 we talk1 we sing our song1 ,our little song upon this earth2 ,how soon we tread the road along1 ,and look for death almost from birth4 ,in point of fact1 hopefulness was the note of her character2 and in spite of all disappointments1 she was an optimist to the end4 ,this note is struck again in the following lines3-- ,take all my things from me--all my gold1 ,my houses1 and my lands1 and all ,i hold-- ,even my beauty's grace2 ,smite down my health1 take all my joy1 ,fret all my life with great annoy1 ,if thou wilt still look on my ,face1 ,if thou wilt still say--,this is she ,who shall be mine1 immortally1 ,in ,heaven1 on ,earth1 ,in night1 in day1 in months1 in years1 ,in joy1 in sorrow--smiles and tears-- ,in life--in ,death6 ,death was a favourite motif1 but ,death regarded as ,watts regarded it--not as a #8skull and cross-bones idea like that of ,holbein1' but as the gentle messenger1 remorseless but not unkind--as the nurse who beckons to the children and puts them to bed4 ,one set of verses1 obviously marked out for revision1 is entitled-- ,,the ,,angel ,,friend ,god called you--and you left us4 ,heaven wanted you for its own4 ,i guessed you were only waiting ,till an ,angel fetched you home4 ,i knew you talked with ,angels ,in the green and leafy wood4 ,some thought you strangely quiet1 ,but ,i--,i understood4 ,for ,i saw your eyes looked into ,the things we could never see1 ,and the sound of your voice had the wonder ,of the distant sound of the sea4 ,and all the dumb creatures knew it1 ,and the flowers faded not in your hand4 ,you walked this earth as a ,spirit ,who sojourned in alien land4 ,another1 equally simple1 is illustrated with the sketch for a water-colour drawing #8,dead1' here reproduced4 ,for each of these poems1 about fifteen in number1 ,kate ,greenaway had made a drawing more or less complete1 with the intention of issuing them in a volume4 ,the verses for which #8,dead' was designed run as follows3-- ,,little ,,dead ,,girl ,hands that no more colour hold ,than the jasmine stars they fold ,in their clasping1 still and tender-- ,can we doubt1 who knew her living1 ,she was worthy of the giving1 ,this gift of ,death that ,god did send her8 ,alas1 that we are left to sorrow ,deeply for you on the morrow4 ,we stand and envy you the peace ,as you lie so1 still and blessed1 ,with your grievings all redressed ,and your soul obtained release4 ,a final example of her happier mood and we have done3-- ,,the ,,happy ,,lady ,my ,lady1 as she goes her ways ,by street or garden1 gives ,god praise ,for all ,his lovely sounds and sights1 ,the sunny days1 the quiet nights-- ,the glories of a moonlit sky ,with stars all shining silently-- ,the rose and red of setting sun1 ,and children as they laugh and run1 ,the flowering fields1 the flowering trees1 ,the strong winds or soft-blowing breeze4 ,no evil thing comes ever nigh ,to hurt her sweet tranquillity4 ,in conclusion1 we would draw the reader's attention once more to the verses #8,when ,i am ,dead1'#gh which were written on the approach of death1 perhaps when1 in spite of the confidence based on friendly assurances1 her instinct whispered to her that the end was not far off4 ,in these circumstances the lines assume a more pathetic and a tenderer significance1 and breathe the pilgrim spirit of ,hope and ,faith at the very threshold of the ,valley of ,death4 ,illustration3 #8,,dead4' ,sketch for an illustration to a poem by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,from a water-colour drawing in the possession of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 ,,chapter ,,xvi ,,the ,,artist3 ,a ,,review ,,and ,,an ,,estimate ,in order to judge of ,kate ,greenaway as an artist1 and appraise her true place and position in ,british art1 we must bear in mind not only what she did1 but what she was4 ,it must be remembered that she was a pioneer1 an inventor1 an innovator2 and that1 although she painted no great pictures and challenged no comparison with those who labour in the more elevated planes of artistry1 is sufficient to place her high upon the roll4 ,just as ,blake is most highly valued for his illustration and ,cruikshank and ,goya for their etched plates1 rather than for their pictures1 so ,kate ,greenaway must be judged1 not by the dignity of her materials1 or by the area of her canvas1 but by the originality of her genius1 and by the strength and depth of the impression she has stamped on the mind and sentiment of the world4 ,as ,mr4 ,holman ,hunt1 ,millais1 and their associates invigorated the art of ,england by their foundation of the ,pre-,raphaelite ,brotherhood1 so ,kate ,greenaway introduced a ,pre-,raphaelite spirit into the art of the nursery4 ,that is what ,dr4 ,max ,nordau1 with curious perversion of judgment and lack of appreciation1 denounced as #8degeneracy'6--accusing her of creating #8a false and degenerate race of children in art1' while at the worst she was but giving us a ,midsummer ,day's ,dream in ,modern ,england4 ,for him ,kate ,greenaway1 the healthy1 sincere1 laughter-loving artist1 is a #8decadent' such as vexes the soul of a ,tolstoi4 ,it is the result1 of course1 of misapprehension--of a misunderstanding which has revolted few besides him4 ,the outstanding merit of ,kate ,greenaway's work is its obvious freedom from affectation1 its true and unadulterated ,english character4 ,what ,dr4 ,nordau mistook for affectation is simply humour--a quaintness which is not less sincere and honest for being sometimes sufficiently self-conscious to make and enjoy and sustain the fun4 ,such grace of action1 such invariable delicacy and perfect taste of her little pictures1 belong only to a mind of the sweetest order--the spontaneity and style1 only to an artist of the rarest instinct4 ,animated by a love of the world's beauty that was almost painful in its intensity1 she was not satisfied to render merely what she saw2 she was compelled to colour it with fancy and imagination4 ,she reveals this passion in a letter to ,mr4 ,locker-,lampson3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,f4 ,,locker-,,lampson #bb ,,wellington ,,esplanade1 ,,lowestoft1 ,thursday4 ,dear ,mr4 ,locker--,we are back again in clouds of mist--no more lovely sailing boats4 ,yesterday afternoon was as fine as we could wish it to be4 ,we went all through the fishing village1 and then there comes a common by the sea1 covered with gorse4 ,the little fishing houses are so quaint4 ,i was savage1 for ,i had not got my book in my pocket1 so shall have to trust to memory to reproduce some of it4 ,i never saw such children--picturesque in the extreme2 such funny little figures in big hats1 the very children ,i dream of existing here in the flesh2 and lots of clothes hanging out to dry flapped about in the sun and made such backgrounds6 ,people laugh at me1 ,i am so delighted and pleased with things1 and say ,i see with rose-coloured spectacles4 ,what do you think--is it not a beautiful world8 ,sometimes have ,i got a defective art faculty that few things are ugly to me8 ,good-bye1 ,k4 ,,greenaway4 ,the truth is1 her poetic emotion and the imagination which so stirred the admiration of ,ruskin and the rest1 inspired her to express a somewhat fanciful vision of the flowers1 and children1 and life which she saw around her4 ,she gave us not what she saw1 but what she felt1 even as she looked4 ,her subtle and tender observation1 one writer has declared1 was corrected and modified by her own sense of love and beauty4 ,her instinctive feeling is1 therefore1 nobler than her sense of record2 it is big in #8conception' and style1 and is immeasurably more delightful than bare appreciation of fact4 ,it is a touch of tragedy in ,kate ,greenaway's life1 that she to whom the love of children was as the very breath of her life was never herself to be thrilled by that maternal love for the little ones she adored4 ,still #8her spirit was bright and pure1 vivacious and alert1' so that she drew children with the grace of ,stothard and the naturalness of ,reynolds1 investing them with all the purity and brightness that we find in her drawing and her colour4 ,although her cantata was simple1 it was ever notable for its exquisite harmony and perfect instrumentation4 ,faults1 no doubt1 of a technical sort ,kate ,greenaway shows in many of her drawings1 and1 as we have seen1 mannerisms at times betrayed her4 ,she would exaggerate in her faces the pointed chin that was a charm of her model ,gertie's face4 ,she would draw eyes too far apart1 as ,ford ,madox ,brown came to do2 yet how exquisitely those eyes were drawn1 and how admirably placed within their sockets6 perfect in accuracy of touch1 and delightful in their beauty4 ,the knees of her girls are sometimes too low down2 the draperies are often too little studied and lack grace of line2 her babies' feet are at times too large1 and are carelessly drawn1 or at least are rendered without sufficient appreciation of their form4 ,a score of drawings substantiate every one of these charges--but what of that8 ,the greatest artists have had their failings1 cardinal in academic eyes1 for the faults are all of technique4 ,as ,boughton exclaimed of his friend ,george du ,maurier--#8,i respect him for his merits1 but ,i love him for his faults4' ,in ,kate ,greenaway's case her faults are forgotten1 or at least forgiven1 in presence of her refined line and fairy tinting1 her profiles and full faces of tender loveliness1 and her figures of daintiest grace4 #8,english picture-books for children1' exclaims ,dr4 ,muther1#gi #8are in these days the most beautiful in the world1 and the marvellous fairy-tales and fireside stories of ,randolph ,caldecott and ,kate ,greenaway have made their way throughout the whole ,continent4 ,how well these ,english draughtsmen know the secret of combining truths with the most exquisite grace6 ,how touching are these pretty babies1 how angelically innocent these little maidens--frank eyes1 blue as the flowers of the periwinkle1 gaze at you with no thought of being looked at in return4 ,the nave astonishment of the little ones1 their frightened mien1 their earnest look absently fixed on the sky1 the first tottering steps of a tiny child and the mobile grace of a school-girl1 all are rendered in these prints with the most tender intimacy of feeling4 ,and united with this there is a delicate and entirely modern sentiment for scenery1 for the fascination of bare autumn landscapes robbed of their foliage1 for sunbeams and the budding fragrance of spring4 ,everything is idyllic1 poetic1 and touched by a congenial breath of tender melancholy4' ,the appreciation of ,kate ,greenaway's work was universal4 ,in ,france its reception was always enthusiastic1 and the critics expressed their delight with characteristic felicity4 ,they recognised1 said one1#hj that until ,kate ,greenaway there had been no author and artist for the boy citizens whose trousers are always too short1 and for the girl citizens whose hands are always too red4 ,they knew nothing about her personality1 and even doubted whether her name was not a pseudonym2 but they welcomed in her the children's artist par excellence1 who knew that the spirit1 the intelligence1 the soul of little ones are unlike those of adults1 and who knew1 too1 by just how much they differed4 ,at the end of a glowing tribute ,m4 ,arsne ,alexandre spoke of her as having been naturalise de ,paris--alluding1 of course1 not to herself but to her work1--whereupon an important ,english newspaper mistranslated the expression2 and so arose the absurd report circulated after her death1 that ,kate ,greenaway1 who had never quitted the shores of ,england1 had passed the later years of her life in ,paris4 ,from ,paris1 declared ,la ,vie de ,paris1 #8the graceful mode of ,greenawisme has gained the provinces1 and from wealthy quarters has penetrated into the suburbs'2#ha and the ,vienna ,neue ,freie ,presse maintained that #8,kate ,greenaway has raised a lasting monument to herself in the reform of children's dress1 for which we have to thank her4' ,but the ,figaro and the ,temps recognised her higher achievement4 #8,kate ,greenaway1' said the former1 #8had une me exquise4 ,she translated childhood into a divine language--or perhaps1 if you prefer it1 she translated the divine mystery of childhood into a purely and exquisitely child-like tongue4' #8,never1' said the latter1 #8has a sweeter soul interpreted infancy and childhood with more felicity1 and ,i know nothing so touching in their navet as the child-scenes that illustrate so many of the artist's books1 the very first of which made her celebrated4' ,these are but specimens of the scores of tributes that filled the press of ,europe and ,america at the time of ,kate ,greenaway's death1 and are sufficient to prove the international appeal she made1 triumphing over the differences of race1 fashion1 and custom which usually are an insuperable bar to universal appreciation4 ,original as she was in her view of art and in the execution of her ideas1 ,kate ,greenaway was very impressionable and frequently suffered herself to be influenced by other artists4 ,but that she was unconscious of the fact seems unquestionable1 and that her own strong individuality saved her from anything that could be called imitation must be admitted4 ,the nearest semblance to that plagiarism which she so heartily abhorred is to be found in the likeness borne by some of her landscapes to those of ,mrs4 ,allingham4 ,the circumstance1 as already recounted1 that the two ladies were cordial friends and went out sketching together1 the younger student in landscape-drawing watching her companion's methods1 is sufficient explanation of the likeness4 ,miss ,greenaway quickly recognised the peril2 and she must have realised that her drawings1 so produced1 lacked much of the spontaneity1 the sparkle1 and the mellowness of the work of ,mrs4 ,allingham4 ,take1 for example1 the charming plate called #8,a ,surrey ,cottage4'#hb ,the landscape is as thoroughly understood as the picturesque element of the design1 with its well-drawn trees and deftly-rendered grass4 ,the children form a pretty group2 but they are not a portion of the picture2 they are dropped into the design and clearly do not fit the setting into which they are so obviously placed4 ,the artist herself has clearly felt the defect1 and obviated it on other occasions4 ,the love of red ,surrey cottages1 green fields1 and groups of little children was common to both artists1 and ,kate's imitation is more apparent than real2 her renderings of them are honest and tender1 full of sentiment1 and of accurate1 vigorous observation4 ,she does not seem to have studied landscape for its breadth1 or sought to read and transcribe the mighty message of poetry it holds for every whole-hearted worshipper4 ,rather did she seek for the passages of beauty and the pretty scenes which appealed to her1 delighting in the sonnet1 as it were1 rather than in the epic4 ,her shortness of sight handicapped her sadly in this branch of art1 and prevented her from seeing many facts of nature in a broad way2 for example1 while #8,the ,old ,farm ,house' has great merits of breeziness1 truth1 and transparency of colour1 with a sense of #8out-of-doorness' not often so freshly and easily obtained1 the great tree at the back lacks substance1 as well as shadow and mystery1 for its branches are spread out like a fan1 and do not seem1 any of them1 to grow towards the spectator4 ,there is no such fault in #8,the ,stick ,fire'--a subject curiously recalling ,fred ,walker2 for here the landscape1 although a little empty1 is clearly studied from nature and set down with great reticence and intelligence4 ,and what could be prettier than the pose of the two girls1 big and little1 on the left8 ,when she leaves realism and touches the landscapes and groups with her own inimitable convention1 ,miss ,greenaway becomes truly herself and can be compared with none other4 ,glance1 for instance1 at #8,the ,bracken ,gatherers4' ,it has the sense of style and #8bigness' which triumphs over any mannerism2 and the heads1 especially that of the girl set so well upon her neck1 are so full of dignity that they may be considered a serious effort in art4 ,she was undoubtedly influenced at times by ,mrs4 ,allingham and ,fred ,walker1 as well as by ,ford ,madox ,brown 7see #8,brother and ,sister1' in which the little girl might almost have come from his pencil74 ,we find traces1 too1 of ,mr4 ,g4 ,d4 ,leslie1 ,r4,a4 7in #8,strawberries'--a drawing not here reproduced71 of ,stothard 7as in the masterly sketch for #8,the ,may ,dance' with its fine sense of grace and movement1 and its excellent spacing71 of ,downman 7as in the portraits belonging to the ,hon4 ,gerald ,ponsonby71 of ,richard ,doyle 7as in the large drawing of #8,the ,elf ,ring'71 and sometimes we recognise echoes of ,stacy ,marks1 of ,mason1 and of ,calvert4 ,but what does it all amount to8 ,merely this1 that when she wandered beyond the garden of that ,greenawayland which she had called into being1 the artist was sometimes moved by the emotions with which she had been thrilled when in past years she gazed with enthusiasm at these men's work4 ,the resemblance was in the main accidental2 for every one of these painters1 like herself1 is characteristically and peculiarly ,english in his view of art as in his methods of execution4 ,there are those who sneer at nationality in art4 ,you can no more speak of ,english art1 laughed ,whistler1 than you can speak of ,english mathematics4 ,the analogy is entirely a false one4 ,you can say with truth #8,english art' as you can say #8,german music'2 for although art in its language is universal1 in its expression it is national1 or at least racial2 and it is the merit of a nation to express itself frankly in its art in its own natural way1 and to despise the affectation of self-presentation in the terms and in the guise of foreign practice not native to itself4 ,it is a matter of sincerity and1 moreover1 of good sense2 for little respect is deserved or received by a man who affects to speak his language with a foreign accent4 ,kate ,greenaway was intensely and unfeignedly ,english3 for that she is beloved in her own country1 and for that she is appreciated and respected abroad4 ,like ,hogarth1 ,reynolds1 and ,millais1 she was the unadulterated product of ,england1 and like them she gave us of her #8,english art4' ,in the latter part of her career ,kate ,greenaway modified her manner of water-colour painting1 mainly with the view to obtaining novelty of effect and conquering public approval4 ,at the beginning she had tried to make finished pictures1 as we see in the moonlight scene of #8,the ,elf ,ring4' ,then when she discovered her true mtier1 influenced by the requirements of ,mr4 ,edmund ,evans's wood-block printing1 to which she adapted herself with consummate ease1 she used outline in pen or pencil1 with delicate washes in colour3 these drawings were made in every case1 of course1 for publication in books4 ,their ready independent sale encouraged her to elaborate her little pictures1 and her election as ,member of the ,royal ,institute of ,painters in ,water-,colours confirmed her in the decision to turn her attention to pure water-colour painting4 ,the decreasing demand for book-illustration influenced her somewhat in taking the new work very seriously1 encouraged thereto by ,ruskin1 who1 as we have seen1 was forever crying out for #8a bit of ,nature4' ,so she painted landscapes which1 in point of technique1 lacked some of the accidental grace and freshness and serious depth which should be essential to such work1 although they were rich in her own sentimental and tender way of seeing things4 ,then in figure painting she abandoned her outlines and indulged in the full strong colour which ,ruskin always begged from her4 ,that she should have fused this vigour of coloration with her own native faculty for daintiness--as for example in #8,lucy ,locket'--must be accounted to her credit4 ,later on her colour became more subdued and even silvery4 ,we see it in the little idyll1 so pure in drawing and feeling1 #8,two at a ,stile' 7with its curious contrast of exact full face in the girl and exact profile in her swain71 and still more in the tender and prettily imagined #8,sisters1' wherein even the red flowers1 although they lend warmth to the almost colourless composition1 do not tell as a spot1 so knowingly is the strength restrained4 ,indeed1 charm and delicacy rather than strength are characteristic of ,kate ,greenaway's genius4 ,we see them1 for example1 in the little #8,swansdown' and companion drawings here reproduced full size1 and we see them also in the playful #8,calm in a ,teacup1' and in #8,mary had a ,little ,lamb1' which the artist drew as a ,christmas card for ,professor ,ruskin1 with their delicate touches of colour and the exquisite pencil outline--so unhesitating and firm nevertheless1 that1 despite their simplicity1 they rarely fail to realise the exact degree of beauty or of character intended4 ,her colour indeed was almost invariably happy1 exactly suited to the matter in hand4 ,in the early days of her first valentines it was crude enough1 and chrome yellow1 rose madder1 cobalt blue1 and raw umber seemed to satisfy her4 ,but soon her eye became extraordinarily sensitive1 and whether strong or delicate the scheme of colour was always harmonious4 ,a test drawing is to be found in #8,a ,baby in ,white1' wherein the little personage so well fills the page4 ,this is in fact a study in whites--in the dress1 the daisies1 and the blossoms--of such variety that the artist's judgment and ability are absolutely vindicated4 ,not that ,kate ,greenaway always painted her white blossoms1 or1 for the matter of that1 left the white paper to represent them4 ,she became skilled in the use of the knife1 and used the artifice consecrated and made legitimate by such masters as ,turner and ,william ,hunt1 with great dexterity4 ,in #8,the ,girl and her ,milk ,pail'--which breathes so pleasantly the memory of ,pinwell1 and which1 well composed and drawn1 shows greater regard than usual for the virtue of atmosphere--the blossoms on the branch above the wall are all produced by #8knifing'3 that is to say1 by means of a sharp knife a bit of the paper's surface of the exact shape required is sliced into and turned over when not cut off2 and the effect is more vivid and true than any amount of care or paint could otherwise secure4 ,except for this1 ,miss ,greenaway used no tricks3 she neither #8rubbed1' nor #8scratched1' nor #8washed4' ,it is perhaps fairer to say that she was too honest than that she lacked resource4 ,she always maintained the legitimacy of the use of body-colour1 which some purists profess to abhor2 beyond that her work is quite simple and direct1 while her technical skill is amply efficacious for all she had to do4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,may ,,dance4 ,from the water-colour sketch in the possession of ,miss ,violet ,dickinson4 ,in the matter of models1 whether for illustrations or exhibition drawings1 she was particular and fastidious4 ,at all times she preferred to draw from the life4 ,her studies from the nude--made in her youth1 with such conscientious accuracy that every form1 every fold in the skin1 and every undulation of high light and shadow1 were rendered with the firmness and with ease that come of practice1 knowledge1 and skill--had carried her far enough for the model to be reckoned a servant1 and not a master4 ,but a realistic drawing is one thing1 and a simplified archaistic rendering of a living figure quite another2 and we may take it1 broadly1 that difficulty in figure draughtsmanship increases in direct ratio to the degree of its simplification4 ,with anatomy1 we imagine1 she was less familiar4 ,miss ,greenaway selected her models with much care4 ,for her men1 as has already been said1 her father and brother usually would good-naturedly sit1 and the type of old lady she often adopted was based upon ,mrs4 ,greenaway4 ,as for her children1 the list of those who were pressed into the service is tolerably long4 ,some of her models she would secure by visiting schools and selecting likely children1 and these again would recommend others4 ,some were already professional models themselves1 or were children brought to her by such4 ,the first of all was the #8water-cress girl' who was employed for her earliest work for the publishers4 #8,mary1' who was secured after the publication of ,under the ,window1 appears in all the books up to the ,pied ,piper4 ,she belonged to a family of models1 and coming to ,miss ,greenaway when a little girl1 remained in her service until she was grown up4 ,and years later another #8,mary' succeeded her4 #8,adela' and her sister were the earliest models of whom any record exists1 and they were employed for ,under the ,window1 for which ,miss ,greenaway's nephew ,eddie also sat4 ,he1 indeed1 is to be found in the whole series up to and including the ,pied ,piper1 that is to say in the ,birthday ,book1 ,mother ,goose1 ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life1 ,little ,ann1 ,language of ,flowers1 ,marigold ,garden1 and ,a ,apple ,pie4 ,mary's brother #8,alfred' sat1 along with his sister1 for the same books as she did2 and #8,gertie' is to be recognised mainly in ,little ,ann and the ,language of ,flowers4 ,gertie became a figure in the ,greenaway household2 as1 from the position of a model merely1 she afterwards graduated to the rank of housemaid at ,frognal1 where1 when she opened the street door1 visitors were surprised and edified to recognise in her a typical #8,kate ,greenaway girl1' with reddish hair and pointed chin1 as pretty and artless a creature as if she had walked straight out of a ,greenaway toy-book4 ,if the reader would see a characteristic portrait of her1 he will find one on p4 #bd of the ,language of ,flowers1 and better still1 perhaps1 in #8,willy and his ,sister' on p4 #cj of ,marigold ,garden4 ,then there were #8,freddie' and his sisters1 and ,mrs4 ,webb's children1 and #8,isa1' #8,ruby1' the ,gilchrists1 two sisters1 and a little red-haired girl 7name forgotten73 nearly all of whom were known only by their ,christian names1 so that their identity must remain unknown to fame4 ,these were the most constant models--these1 and the #8little ,mary' to whom she frequently alludes in her letters to ,ruskin4 ,that the little ones were a constant tribulation to the artist1 whose patience was often put to the severest test1 her letters to friends bear frequent witness4 ,for example1 to ,mr4 ,locker-,lampson she writes from ,pemberton ,gardens3-- ,,kate ,,greenaway ,,to ,,frederick ,,locker-,,lampson ,you ought to enjoy the beautiful sea and this lovely weather4 ,do you see those wonderful boats we used to see at ,lowestoft8 ,i never saw such magnificent crimson and orange sails1 and such splendid curves as they made4 ,how nice of you having ,mr4 ,caldecott2 you will enjoy his society so much4444 ,i have got a little girl five years old coming to sit this morning--which means a fearfully fidgety morning's work4 ,however1 it is the last of the models for my book2 then ,i can go straight away with the illustrations1 which will be a great gain4 ,and in a lively letter to ,mrs4 ,severn she sends a verbatim report of the bright but discursive dialogue between the #8,chatter-box ,mary' and #8,victim' 7herself71 illustrated with fifteen sketches of ,mary's feet in constantly changing postures1 driving the artist to distraction and culminating in #8,,victim--limp--worn--exhausted4' ,illustration3 #8,,alfy' 7,,unfinished74 ,from an experimental oil painting in the possession of ,john ,greenaway1 ,esq4 ,in the class of drawings which she called #8,processions' ,miss ,greenaway is entirely original4 ,she could arrange a dozen1 or if need be twenty1 figures--usually of graceful girls and pretty babes--full of movement and action1 in which there is cheerfully worked-out a decorative motif1 with a rhythmic line running through the composition4 ,in some the work is so delicate as practically to defy satisfactory reproduction2 but sufficient justice can be done to suggest their charm of sentiment and the balance of design4 ,now and again we have in miniature a reminder of the languorous dignity of ,leighton's #8,daphnephoria4' ,sometimes the movement is more lively1 and we have #8,dances' of all kinds1 now quaint and strangely demure1 now full of the joy of life4 #8,the ,may ,dance' is as sober as if it were designed for a panel in a public building2 but in #8,the ,dancing of the ,felspar ,fairies' we have a vigorous abandon mingled with the conventionality of graceful poses4 ,in most of them1 no doubt1 the draperies are seldom studied accurately from life2 but it is doubtful whether1 if they were more correct in their flow of fold1 they would harmonise so well with the character of the figures and general treatment4 ,for throughout1 it must be observed1 she is a decorative artist4 ,even in the delightful realism of her flowers1 which have rarely been surpassed either in sympathy of understanding or in delicacy and refinement of realisation1 she never forgets their decorative value3 they are presented to us not for their inherent beauty alone1 but for their value upon the paper or upon the decorated page4 ,for that reason1 perhaps1 ,kate ,greenaway was never quite at home as a portraitist3 she resented being tied down to a face or figure4 ,no doubt1 such drawings as #8,the ,red ,boy' and #8,the ,little ,model' were portraits1 but she was free to depart from the truth as much as she chose4 ,the children in the unfinished oil-paintings of #8,the ,muff' and #8,alfy' were not less portraits1 but the motive of these oil pictures 7of the size of life7 was not likeness merely but practice in what ,ruskin called #8the sticky art4' ,in #8,vera ,samuel' an unaccountable width has been given to the head1 but without loss of character4 ,there appears more truth in the portrait of #8,frederick ,locker-,lampson' with eyelids drooping1 an interesting likeness of an interesting man of letters2 the woolliness of effect being mainly due to the translation of stippled water-colour into black-and-white4 ,the head of old #8,thomas ,chappell' is one of the artist's masterpieces in portraiture--full of character and insight1 and a really brilliant rendering of old age1 firmly drawn and elaborately modelled4 ,with the pencil ,kate ,greenaway was more at home4 ,the rapid unfinished sketch of her brother1 #8,john ,greenaway1 ,jr41' is still a likeness although more than thirty years have passed since it was made2 and the two delightfully executed heads of #8,miss ,mabel ,ponsonby' and #8,miss ,eileen ,ponsonby1' reinforced with faint colour in the manner of ,downman1 and with not a little of his delicacy1 imply a measure of accomplishment attained by constant practice--the result1 perhaps1 of ,south ,kensington training4 ,the #8,portrait of a ,lady1' in a method somewhat similar1 is not entirely successful as a portrait2 but it is included here as an example of the new style of work which ,miss ,greenaway adopted towards the end of her career4 ,perhaps the most engaging of all is the miniature of #8,joan ,ponsonby1' in which we find an artless simplicity1 a candour and refreshing naturalness1 wholly apart and distinct from the photographically inspired miniature of to-day4 ,the colours are simple and the handling broad for all its precision of drawing1 for the artist has resisted the temptation to finish her flowers and other details with the microscopical minuteness which she employed with so much effect on more suitable occasions4 ,illustration3 ,,pencil ,,study ,,from ,,life4 ,when all ,miss ,greenaway's work is carefully judged1 it will1 we think1 be seen that it is with the point rather than with the brush that she touches her highest level1 whether her manner be precise as in her book-plates1 or free as in her sketches4 ,of her book-plates1 the best are unquestionably those of ,mr4 ,locker-,lampson and ,lady ,victoria ,herbert4 ,the latter is formal in treatment and beautifully grouped1 yet drawn with a certain hardness typical of what is called the ,birmingham ,school2 the former infinitely more sympathetic in touch1 the children delightful in pose1 the apple-tree drawn with unusual perfection1 and the distant city touched in with extraordinary skill4 ,with these1 compare the masterly pencil study of a baby toddling forwards--swiftly drawn1 loosely handled1 instinct with life and character1 one of the best things1 artistically considered1 the artist ever did4 ,hardly less remarkable is the tiny sketch in a letter to ,ruskin of a little bonneted girl holding up her skirt as she walks--a drawing not unworthy of ,charles ,keene in its vigorous light and shade1 and suggestion of the body beneath the clothes 7see p4 #bhc74 ,and yet in the text ,miss ,greenaway laments the badness of the pen6 ,a better pen would have produced a worse sketch4 ,it was a quill that she habitually used1 and1 in spite of the broad line it compelled1 she made good use of it4 ,in the heading to her letter to ,miss ,dickinson1 dated ,october #ai1 #ahig1 we can positively feel the wind that is scattering the leaves around the old oak4 ,the girl with the candle1 in her letter to ,mrs4 ,locker-,lampson1 which reminds us of ,caldecott2 the little #8,violets1 ,sir8' which reminds us of ,leech2 the dancing children1 one with a tambourine1 the other with hand on hip1 who remind us of ,stothard2 the group of three dancing children1 which has been compared with the work of ,lady ,waterford2 and the letter to ,john ,ruskin showing the sketch of reaper and sheaf-binder--are all drawn with the broad-nibbed quill1 with consummate ease and masterly effect1 and they give even more pleasure to the educated eye than the charming little pencil sketches such as those in the possession of ,lady ,pontifex4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,illustration ,,handwriting3 ash trees in the ,hedge as a background4 and lots of poppies in the near corn--,i shall do it---- oh when ,i can begin some new things---- ,i shall feel so joyful4 ,i do like doing one thing only at ,from a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,the early sketch-books of ,kate ,greenaway reveal some rather unexpected phases of her development before she had produced any work characteristic enough to be recognised as hers by the public4 ,it is with surprise that we see how well she drew in the very first stage of her career4 ,as the reader will remember1 her first leanings were towards the comic--as in the humorous sketch of the lovelorn swain piping to his ridiculous love 7p4 #bgi73 a drawing which ,phiz might have been willing to acknowledge2 or1 again1 the little girl and sprite walking arm-in-arm 7see p4 #ge74 ,then the romantic moved her1 and in the spirit of the great illustrators of the #8sixties she made the rapid pencil sketch 7for composition7 of a princess in a castle kissing a farewell to some sailor-boy whose ship scuds one way while the sails belly the other2 and1 again1 a long-hosed gallant gracefully doffing his cap to a #8faire ladye' at a window 7see p4 #de74 ,rough as they are1 both are well drawn1 especially the latter1 but they give no hint whatever of the art which was to spring from them4 ,illustration3 ,very early sketch illustrating ,kate ,greenaway's ambition to be a humorous artist4 ,in the possession of ,w4 ,marcus ,ward1 ,esq4 ,similarly with her pen-sketches4 ,the design1 dashed off at lightning speed1 of an eighteenth-century scene at ,christmas eve might almost be the work of ,phiz or ,cruikshank2 and the power of managing many figures on a small sheet of paper is already fully developed4 ,so1 too1 in a drawing of a totally different class--#8,the ,picnic4' ,miss ,greenaway had been much impressed1 in common with the rest of the fraternity of ,london artists1 by the work of the ,scottish artist ,mr4 ,william ,small1 and had attempted to probe into his method of handling1 particularly in the technical treatment of form and texture in the coat worn by the central figure4 ,it need hardly be said that these sketches1 and others in the manner of ,leighton1 ,mr4 ,holman ,hunt1 and so on1 were in no sense copies1 or even imitations4 ,they were intended only as studies with a view to analysing each man's style1 for the purpose of self-education4 ,that mastered1 or at least understood1 she turned to her own work1 and began to feel her way towards the light4 ,illustration ,once she departed from the heroic and romantic manner of her coloured fairy toy-books and valentines and began the simple sketches from everyday life for #8,poor ,nelly'--a serial in ,little ,folks under the anonymous authorship of ,mrs4 ,bonavia ,hunt1 afterwards republished in volume form--she betrayed a certain weakness in her drawing2 while for a time the garishness of tint which had been demanded of her did not immediately disappear4 ,but by the time ,under the ,window was reached1 five years later 7#ahgh71 her difficulty of colour was conquered1 and she stood alone1 with ,mr4 ,walter ,crane1 in the intelligent combination of healthy children's art and the chastened colour which was being insisted on by ,william ,morris and the so-called sthetic ,movement4 ,the reversion in the following year to modern illustration1 in the drawings made for ,charlotte ,yonge's novels1 proved once more that the decorative treatment of subjects was her natural rle4 ,when she returned to the true ,kate ,greenaway manner1 the change was welcomed by every competent critic4 ,a ,german writer expressed himself in terms not less appreciative than those which later came from ,france and ,belgium4 #8,it is impossible1' he said1 #8to describe in words the wealth of artistic invention1 the dignity and loveliness1 which characterise this performance4 ,what a gulf between these delightful works of art of imperishable value1 and the trashy caricatures of such stuff as our ,struwelpeter6 ,god-speed to ,kate ,greenaway6' ,illustration3 ,,the ,,picnic4 ,early ,pen-and-,ink ,drawing from ,kate ,greenaway's ,sketch-book4 ,mother ,goose was1 indeed1 an advance on ,under the ,window--which1 under the title of ,la ,lanterne ,magique1#hc the ,revue de ,belgique1 in an enthusiastic article1 curiously attributed to a male artist1 and which the ,national ,zeitung extolled as much for its verse as for its bewitching art4 ,the drawing here is better1 and the effect not very seriously injured by the faulty register of many of the copies4 ,an ,american journal--the ,literary ,world1 of ,boston--declared that the delicacy and beauty of her faces in outline were as good as ,flaxman2 and the curious quality of #8affectionateness' in the drawings1 their ingenuousness and prettiness that would have moved the heart of ,stothard and touched the soul of ,blake1 firmly established the young artist in the position to which her former book had raised her4 ,but not until ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life did ,kate ,greenaway show her full power as a painter of flowers--by the side of which even her pictures of boys and girls seem to many to yield in interest4 ,the difficulty1 or rather the irksomeness1 which she habitually experienced in pure illustration of other people's ideas1 in no wise affected her in ,little ,ann1 which contains some of the most delightful and spring-like drawings she ever did1 usually so excellent in composition and fascinating in single figures and in detail that we overlook1 if we do not entirely miss1 certain little faults of perspective--faults1 indeed1 which1 if noticed at all1 only add to the quaintness of the design4 ,in the ,language of ,flowers and ,marigold ,garden ,kate ,greenaway rose to her highest point in decision and firmness allied to the perfect drawing of flowers and fruit1 although it must be allowed that those who have not seen the original designs can form no accurate judgment from the printed work4 ,the annual ,almanacks1 too1 which had been begun in #ahhc1 showed her endless resource and inexhaustible faculty of design2 yet it is perhaps to be regretted that so much conscientious effort and executive ability should have been wasted in the almost microscopic rendering of the innumerable illustrations which embellish these tiny books4 ,in ,the ,english ,spelling-,book another change is seen4 ,in several of these beautiful line illustrations there is a freedom in the use of the pencil not hitherto shown1 and the drawings of #8,miss ,rose and her ,aunt1' #8,our ,dog ,tray1' #8,jane1' and a few others1 modest as they are1 mark a definite advance in ,miss ,greenaway's artistic development4 ,she returned to her more formal manner in ,a ,apple ,pie 7#ahhf71 as it was more suitable to the large page she had to decorate2 and she gives us a greater measure of combined humour and invention than had previously been shown1 for the subject fitted her mood of fun and fancy exactly--far better than the same year's ,queen of the ,pirate ,isle4 ,on the title-page of the last-mentioned book1 however1 appears one of the prettiest vignettes she ever drew4 ,unsuspected power was revealed in ,the ,pied ,piper of ,hamelin4 ,miss ,greenaway was hampered1 no doubt1 in her attempt to render the pseudo-,german medievalism on a large scale3 nevertheless1 she succeeded in grasping the full significance of the poem1 and the spirit maintained throughout and the capacity for dealing with ease with crowds of figures1 combine in this volume to constitute a very considerable performance4 ,a strange contrast with the ,pied ,piper is ,dame ,wiggins of ,lee4 ,it is scarcely likely1 we think1 that readers will endorse with much cordiality the unbounded admiration expressed by ,john ,ruskin for these designs4 ,it must be borne in mind1 however1 that they are merely rough trial sketches for approval of drawings which were to be made1 but that ,ruskin1 charmed with their spontaneity1 declared that they would fit the poem better in their scribbled state than any illustrations more complete4 ,illustration3 ,,pen ,,sketch ,,in ,,one ,,of ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,earliest ,,sketch-,,books4 7,showing early power of composition47 ,miss ,greenaway's last book was that admirable volume for children1 ,the ,april ,baby's ,book of ,tunes1 by the author of ,elizabeth and her ,german ,garden1 whose humour and love of children were like to ,kate ,greenaway's own1 with an added wit of the most innocent and refreshing kind4 ,the #8babies1' whom the artist had never seen1 were sympathetically pictured1 and their favourite nursery rhymes were illustrated once more as freshly as if she had dealt with them for the first time4 ,illustration3 ,,handwriting ,nothing but bad ,pens down ,here and ,i don't like going to the studio when it's dark ,i don't like the boy ,figure--,i'll get a new ,pen ,see p4 #bgf4 ,the survey of her work in the aggregate shows convincingly that even had her technique been on a lower level ,kate ,greenaway would still have succeeded as the interpreter-in-chief of childhood4 ,follower though she was in point of time of ,mr4 ,walter ,crane and ,randolph ,caldecott1 inspired in some respects no doubt by their example1 she nevertheless stands alone in her own sphere4 ,from ,lucca della ,robbia to ,ludwig ,richter and ,schwind1 to ,bewick and ,thackeray1 ,cruikshank and ,boutet de ,monvel1 no one has demonstrated more completely the artist's knowledge of and sympathy with infant life1 or communicated that knowledge and that sympathy to us4 ,her pictures delight the little ones for their own sake1 and delight us for the sake of the little ones2 and it may be taken as certain that ,kate ,greenaway's position in the ,art of ,england is assured1 so long as her drawings speak to us out of their broad and tender humanity1 and carry their message to every little heart4 ,illustration3 ,on a ,letter to ,ruskin4 ,,list ,,of ,,books1 ,,etc41 ,,illustrated ,,wholly ,,or ,,in ,,part ,,by ,,kate ,,greenaway #ahga4 ,,aunt ,,louisa',s ,,london ,,toy ,,books ,,diamonds ,,and ,,toads4 ,london4 ,frederick ,warne ,co4 7#aj #h7 ,,madame ,d',,aulnoy',s ,,fairy ,,tales3 c4 #ahga4 7#a7 ,,the ,,fair ,,one ,,with ,,golden ,,locks 7#b7 ,,the ,,babes ,,in ,,the ,,wood 7#c7 ,,tom ,,thumb 7#d7 ,,blue ,,beard 7#e7 ,,puss ,,in ,,boots 7#f7 ,,the ,,blue ,,bird 7#g7 ,,the ,,white ,,cat 7#h7 ,,hop ,o' ,,my ,,thumb 7#i7 ,,red ,,riding ,,hood ,all published by ,gall ,inglis1 #f1 ,george ,street1 ,edinburgh4 7#f-aa_/af #g and #i #g7 #ahgd4 ,,fairy ,,gifts2 or1 ,a ,,wallet ,,of ,,wonders3 ,by ,kathleen ,knox1 author of #8,father ,time's ,story ,book4' ,illustrations by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,griffith ,farran1 successors to ,newbury ,harris1 ,west ,corner of ,st4 ,paul's ,churchyard1 ,london4 ,e4 ,p4 ,dutton ,co41 ,new ,york4 7#f #e7 #ahgf4 ,,the ,,quiver ,,of ,,love3 ,a ,collection of ,valentines4 ,by ,walter ,crane and ,kate ,greenaway ,marcus ,ward ,co4 #ahgh4 ,,poor ,,nelly2 ,by ,the ,author of #8,tiny ,houses1' and #8,two #8,little ,fourpenny ,bits'2 and ,polly and ,joe4 ,cassell1 ,petter1 ,folks1' ,galpin ,co41 ,london1 ,paris and ,new ,york4 ,all ,rights #ahgg4 ,reserved4 7,written by ,mrs4 ,bonavia ,hunt7 7#g-c_/af #d7 #ahgh4 ,,topo3 ,a ,tale about ,english ,children in ,italy4 ,by ,g4 ,e4 ,brunefille4 ,with #dd ,pen-and-ink ,illustrations by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,marcus ,ward ,co4 7,written by ,lady ,colin ,campbell7 #ahgh4 ,,under ,,the ,,window ,,pictures ,,and ,,rhymes ,,for ,,children by ,kate ,greenaway engraved and printed by ,edmund ,evans4 ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill4 ,new ,york3 #daf1 ,broome ,street4 7#i #g7 #ahgi4 ,,the ,,heir ,,of ,,redclyffe ,by ,charlotte ,m4 ,yonge 7,another ,illustrated edition by ,kate ,greenaway ,london ,macmillan #aijb47 ,co4 #ahgi ,the ,right of ,translation is ,reserved4 7#g #d7 #ahgi4 ,,amateur ,,theatricals ,by ,walter ,herries ,pollock and ,lady ,pollock ,london3 ,macmillan ,co4 #ahgi4 ,the ,right of ,translation and ,reproduction is ,reserved 7#g #d7 #ahgi4 ,,heartsease or ,,the ,,brother',s ,,wife ,by ,charlotte ,m4 7,another ,yonge ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway ,london ,macmillan edition ,co41 ,limited ,new ,york3 ,the ,macmillan ,company #aijb47 #aijb ,all rights reserved 7#g #d7 #ahgi4 ,,the #8,,little ,,folks' ,,painting ,,book4 ,a ,series of ,outline ,engravings for ,water-,colour ,painting1 ,by ,kate ,greenaway1 with descriptive stories and verses by ,george ,weatherly4 ,cassell ,petter ,galpin3 ,london1 ,paris and ,new ,york4 7,the book contains #ajg illustrations1 #hhth thousand47 7#h #f7 #ahhj4 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,birthday ,,book ,,for ,,children with #chb ,illustrations1 ,drawn by ,kate ,greenaway1 ,printed by ,edmund ,evans4 ,verses by ,mrs4 ,sale ,barker4 ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons1 ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill4 ,new ,york3 #daf1 ,broome ,street4 ,all ,rights ,reserved4 7#c #c7 #ahha4 ,,the ,,library4 ,by ,andrew ,lang with a ,chapter on ,modern ,english ,illustrated ,books by ,austin ,dobson ,london ,macmillan ,co4 #ahha ,the right of reproduction is reserved4 #ahha4 ,a ,,day ,,in ,a ,,child',s ,,life4 ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway4 ,music by ,myles ,b4 ,foster4 7,organist of the ,foundling ,hospital47 ,engraved and ,printed by ,edmund ,evans4 ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons1 ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill4 ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place4 ,copyright4 7#i #h7 #ahha4 ,,mother ,,goose or the ,old ,nursery ,rhymes ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway engraved and printed by ,edmund ,evans4 ,london and ,new ,york ,george ,routledge ,sons4 7#f #d7 #ahhb4 ,,little ,,ann ,,and ,,other ,,poems ,by ,jane and ,ann ,taylor 7,printed ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway printed in colours by #ahhb1 ,edmund ,evans ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons published ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place4 #ahhc47 ,the ,illustrations are ,copyright4 7#i #e-ac_/af7 #ahhc4 ,,almanack ,,for #ahhc ,by ,kate ,greenaway ,london ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place 7#c-ae_/af #b7 #ahhc-hd4 ,,fors ,,clavigera ,letters to the ,workmen and ,labourers of 7,and ,great ,britain ,by ,john ,ruskin1 ,,ll4,d41 ,george ,allen1 subsequent ,orpington and ,london editions47 #ahhd4 ,,almanack ,,for #ahhd ,by ,kate ,greenaway ,printed by ,edmund ,evans ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place ,copyright 7#e #c7 #ahhd4 ,a ,,painting ,,book by ,kate ,greenaway with ,outlines from ,other her various works for ,girls and ,boys to ,paint editions ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill with 7#i #g7 different title1 by ,f4 ,warne ,co4 #ahhd4 ,,language ,,of ,,flowers ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway ,printed in ,colours by ,edmund ,evans ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons4 7#h-ac_/af #d7 #ahhd4 ,,the ,,english ,,spelling-,,book accompanied by ,a ,progressive ,series of ,easy and familiar lessons by ,william ,mavor1 ,,ll4,d4 ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway engraved and printed by ,edmund ,evans4 ,london ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place #ahhe4 7#g #d7 #ahhe4 ,,almanack ,,for #ahhe ,,by ,,kate ,,greenaway ,london ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place 7#c-ae_/af #b7 #ahhe4 ,,dame ,,wiggins ,,of ,,lee1 ,,and ,,her ,,seven ,,wonderful ,,cats2 7,second ,a humorous tale written principally by a lady of ninety4 edition ,edited1 with additional verses1 ,by ,john ,ruskin1 ,,ll4,d41 #ahig47 ,honorary ,student of ,christ ,church1 and ,honorary ,fellow of ,corpus ,christi ,college1 ,oxford4 ,and with new illustrations ,by ,kate ,greenaway with twenty-two woodcuts4 ,george ,allen1 ,sunnyside1 ,orpington2 and #aef ,charing ,cross ,road1 ,london4 7#g #d7 #ahhe4 ,,marigold ,,garden ,pictures and ,rhymes ,by ,kate ,greenaway ,printed in ,colours ,by ,edmund ,evans ,london ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place4 7#aj #h7 8 #ahhe4 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,alphabet4 ,london ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place4 7#b #b-e_/af7 8 #ahhe4 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,album4 ,with #aib ,illustrations within gold borders4 ,printed in ,colours by ,edmund ,evans4 ,george ,routledge ,sons1 ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill4 ,printed but not published4 #ahhf4 ,,almanack ,,for #ahhf ,by ,kate ,greenaway ,london ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place4 7#c-ae_/af #b7 #ahhf4 ,a ,,apple ,,pie ,by ,kate ,greenaway ,engraved and ,printed by ,edmund ,evans4 ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,new ,york3 #i1 ,lafayette ,place4 7#h #aj7 #ahhf4 ,,the ,,queen ,,of ,,the ,,pirate ,,isle ,by ,bret ,harte ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway 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,limited1 ,st4 ,dunstan's ,house1 ,fetter ,lane4 ,edward ,stanford1 #bf and #bg ,cockspur ,street1 ,s4,w4 #ahhh4 ,entered at ,stationers' ,hall4--,all ,rights ,reserved 7#h-a_/af #f7 #ahhh4 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,almanack for #ahhh ,george ,routledge ,sons 7#c #b7 #ahhh4 ,,the ,,pied ,,piper ,,of ,,hamelin by ,robert ,browning with #ce illustrations by ,kate ,greenaway engraved and printed in colours by ,edmund ,evans ,london ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,glasgow1 ,manchester and ,new ,york4 7#i #h7 #ahhi4 ,,almanack ,,for #ahhi ,by ,kate ,greenaway ,printed by ,edmund ,evans ,george ,routledge ,sons ,london1 ,glasgow1 and ,new ,york 7#c #b7 #ahhi4 ,,kate ,,greenaway',s ,,book ,,of ,,games with ,twenty-four ,full-page ,plates ,engraved and ,printed in ,colours by ,edmund ,evans ,london ,george ,routledge ,sons ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill ,glasgow1 ,manchester1 and ,new ,york4 7#i #g7 #ahhi4 ,,the ,,royal ,,progress ,,of ,,king ,,pepito ,by ,beatrice ,f4 ,cresswell 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,co43 #fg ,st4 ,james's ,st41 ,london 7#d-a_/af #c7 #aijj4 ,,the ,,april ,,baby',s ,,book ,,of ,,tunes with ,,the ,,story ,,of ,,how ,,they ,,came ,,to ,,be ,,written ,by the ,author of #8,elizabeth and her ,german ,garden' ,illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway ,london ,macmillan ,co41 ,limited ,new ,york3 ,the ,macmillan ,company #aijj ,all ,rights ,reserved4 7#g #g7 99 99 99 99 99 ,,miscellanea3 #ahfh4 ,the ,people's ,magazine4 #ahgc-hj4 ,little ,folks4 ,serial ,story of #8,poor ,nelly1' etc4 etc4 7#i #g7 #ahgd4 ,cassell's ,magazine4 7#aj #g7 #ahha-b4 ,little ,wide-,awake 7,g4 ,routledge ,sons74 ,edited by ,mrs4 ,sale ,barker4 #ahhb1 etc4 ,routledge's ,christmas ,number4 7#aj #h7 ,st4 ,nicholas4 ,the ,graphic4 ,illustrated ,london ,news4 #ahhb1 etc4 ,routledge's ,every ,girl's ,annual4 7#aj #f7 v4y4 ,the ,girls' ,own ,paper4 ,etc4 etc4 ,index ,a ,apple ,pie1 #eh2 success of1 #aee2 ,ruskin on1 #aef1 #afj2 drawing in ,victoria and ,albert ,museum1 #bef2 models for1 #bgc2 style of1 #bhb 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,greenaway's letters1 #afd1 #afg2 letter from ,kate ,greenaway to1 #beb ,samuel1 ,miss ,vera1 book-plate for1 #ahb1 #bbf2 portrait of1 #baa1 #bge ,saturday ,review on ,under the ,window1 #fa ,scribner1 first work for ,messrs41 #fi2 frontispiece to ,london ,lyrics for1 #hh ,seckendorff1 ,count1 #ii ,severn1 ,mrs4 ,arthur1 on ,ruskin and ,kate ,greenaway1 #aaj2 friendship with1 #ada2 letter to ,kate ,greenaway from1 #aff2 letters from ,kate ,greenaway to1 ,preface1 #gj1 #bja1 #bea1 #bgd ,severn1 ,miss ,lily1 #afg ,severn1 ,miss ,violet1 ,kate ,greenaway writes and illustrates #8,a very ,naughty ,girl' for1 #ada1 #afg ,shaw1 ,mr4 ,norman1 ,r4,a41 architect of ,kate ,greenaway's house1 #adb2 friend of ,kate ,greenaway1 #afg ,sheffield ,museum1 drawing1 #8,rock1 ,moss1 and ,ivy1' by ,kate ,greenaway in1 #acd #8,shoe1 ,the ,kate ,greenaway1' #abc ,shortness of sight1 cause of ,kate ,greenaway's faults of perspective1 #afh1 #bgj ,sidney1 ,sir ,philip1 and ,hubert ,languet1 ,correspondence of1 #aed ,silver medal gained at ,south ,kensington in #ahfd1 #db #8,sisters1' colour of1 #bgb ,sketch-book1 early1 #bgg ,small1 ,mr4 ,william1 influence of work of1 on ,kate ,greenaway1 #bgi ,snow ,queen1 designs for1 #bea ,spielmann1 ,mr4 ,m4 ,h41 letters from ,kate ,greenaway to1 #bdh1 #bdi2 member of ,memorial ,committee1 #bef ,spielmann1 ,mrs4 ,m4 ,h41 proposed illustrations to story by1 #ea2 stories by1 with illustrations by ,kate ,greenaway1 #bej2 letters from ,kate ,greenaway to1 #bej1 #bea #8,spring ,copse1 ,a1' sold1 #ahc ,spring flowers1 ,kate ,greenaway's love for1 #ahj #8,standing for her ,picture1' sale of1 #ahc ,stanley1 ,hon4 ,mrs41 #ajj ,stanley1 ,miss ,dorothy1 visit to ,southwold with1 #bja ,stanley1 ,miss ,madeline1 #bcj1 #bca ,stevenson1 ,robert ,louis1 inspired by ,birthday ,book1 #gg #8,stick ,fire1 ,the1' sold1 #ahc2 beauty of1 #bgj ,stothard1 influence of1 on ,kate ,greenaway1 #bgj #8,stowaway1 ,the' 7,sir ,j4 ,e4 ,millais1 ,p4,r4,a471 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bbh #8,strawberries1' influence of ,g4 ,d4 ,leslie1 ,r4,a41 in1 #bgj ,suffolk ,street ,gallery1 #8,a ,peeper1' #ej #8,surrey ,cottage1 ,a1' influence of ,mrs4 ,allingham in1 #bfi #8,swansdown1' #bgb #8,taking a ,nosegay1' at ,royal ,institute 7#ahie71 #aie ,tate ,gallery1 the1 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bdb ,temps1 ,le1 on ,kate ,greenaway's work1 #bfh ,tennyson1 family1 friendship with1 #hh2 references to1 in ,kate ,greenaway's letters1 #afd1 #afg ,tennyson1 ,lord1 last meeting with1 #bcg #8,the ,seasons1' sold1 #gf ,theatre1 early visits to the1 #ai ,thomas1 ,william ,l41 on ,kate ,greenaway's early work for ,the ,graphic1 #ef ,thompson1 ,miss ,elizabeth 7,lady ,butler71 on student days with ,kate ,greenaway1 #dc ,thorne1 ,aunt1 and her garden1 #ae #8,thoughts of the ,sea1' sold1 #bbd #8,three ,girls in ,white1' in ,victoria and ,albert ,museum1 #bef #8,three ,innocents1' sold1 #gf ,time and ,tune1 designs for1 #he #8,time of ,roses1 ,the1' sold1 #gf ,times1 ,the1 on ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life1 #aja ,topo3 ,a ,tale about ,english ,children in ,italy1 illustrations for1 #dg2 publication of1 in #ahgh1 #fg2 sale of drawings for1 #gf #8,toy ,horse1 ,the1' sold1 #ahc #8,tracts1' payment for1 #ej ,trendell1 ,sir ,arthur1 ,hon4 ,sec4 of ,memorial ,committee1 #bef ,trojan1 ,herr1 on ,under the ,window1 #he ,trotter1 ,miss ,lilias1 reference to1 by ,ruskin1 #aee1 #aef ,turner1 ,j4 ,m4 ,w41 ,r4,a41 ,ruskin on1 #acd #8,two at a ,stile1' #bga #8,two ,girls in a ,garden1' sold1 #bbd #8,two ,little ,girls in a ,garden1' at ,royal ,institute 7#ahig71 #baa #8,two ,little ,sisters1' sold1 #ahc #8,under the ,rose ,tree1' sold1 #ahc ,under the ,window1 story of its production1 #eg2 popularity of1 #fj2 ,saturday ,review on1 #fa2 verses in1 #fb2 exhibition of drawings for1 at ,fine ,art ,society1 #fc2 designs copied on majolica ware at ,buda ,pesth1 #gi2 translation into ,german1 #he2 reception of1 in ,germany1 #he1 #bha2 drawings for1 criticised for lack of perspective1 #afg2 models for1 #bgc2 ,french and ,belgian edition of1 #bha ,valentines1 first designs for1 #dd2 designed for ,marcus ,ward ,co41 #dg ,van ,baerle's ,gallery1 ,glasgow1 exhibition of ,kate ,greenaway's drawings at1 #aha ,varley1 ,miss1 school of1 #ch ,velasquez1 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bah ,venetian ,exhibition1 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #aie ,verses by ,kate ,greenaway1 #ch1 #fb1 #bed1 #beg1 et seq4 ,victoria and ,albert ,museum1 ,kate ,greenaway's work in1 #bef ,victorian ,exhibition1 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bad ,vie de ,paris1 ,la1 on ,kate ,greenaway's work1 #bfh #8,violets1 ,sir8' #bgg ,vyvyan1 ,miss1 fellow-student and friend of ,kate ,greenaway1 #afg ,walker1 ,mr4 ,david1 purchaser of ,almanack 7#ahic7 drawings1 #ahb ,walker1 ,fred1 ,a4,r4,a41 influence of1 on ,kate ,greenaway's work1 #bgj ,wall-papers1 ,almanack 7#ahic7 designs sold for1 #ahb ,ward1 ,marcus1 ,co41 ,christmas cards designed for1 #df2 valentines designed for1 #dh2 cessation of connection with1 #dh2 ,christmas cards for1 #ej2 ,the ,quiver of ,love1 #ec2 ,topo1 #fh ,ward1 ,mr4 ,william ,marcus1 as adviser1 #di2 on illustrations to ,topo1 #fh ,wardle1 ,sir ,thomas1 ,chairman of ,memorial ,committee1 #bef ,warne1 ,frederick1 ,co4 ,see ,preface and ,list of ,works ,webb1 ,sir ,aston1 ,r4,a41 on ,memorial ,committee1 #bef ,wedderburn1 ,mr4 ,a41 ,k4,c41 #aab ,what the ,moon ,saw1 designs for1 #bea ,wheels of ,chance1 ,the1 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bae ,whistler1 ,j4 ,m',n41 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bah ,white1 ,gleeson1 on ,kate ,greenaway's designs for ,christmas cards1 #gf ,whitelands ,college1 ,kate ,greenaway at ,may-day celebration at1 #bja ,wise1 ,aunt1 visit to1 #aj ,women and ,woman's ,suffrage1 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bab #8,women of ,amphissa1 ,the' 7,sir ,l4 ,alma-,tadema1 ,o4,m41 ,r4,a471 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bai ,wonderful ,visit1 ,the1 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bjc ,woodlanders1 ,the 7,mr4 ,thomas ,hardy71 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bch ,wordsworth1 visit of ,kate ,greenaway to country of1 #ahg2 ,kate ,greenaway on #8,intimations of ,immortality' of1 #ahi #8,yes' 7,sir ,j4 ,e4 ,millais1 ,p4,r4,a471 ,kate ,greenaway on1 #bbh ,yonge1 ,charlotte1 ,kate ,greenaway's illustrations to novels of1 #gg1 #bha ,,the ,,end ,printed by ,r4 ,r4 ,clark1 ,limited1 ,edinburgh4 ,,in ,,the ,,same ,,series ,,all ,,with ,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,each #bj,s4 ,,net 8,of all ,god's gifts to the sight of man1 colour is the holiest1 the most ,divine1 the most solemn40--,ruskin4 ,,described ,,by ,,sir ,,martin ,,conway ,,painted ,,by ,a4 ,d4 ,m',,cormick ,,the ,,alps #gj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,text ,,by ,,marcus ,b4 ,,huish1 ,,ll4,b4 ,,british ,,water-,,colour ,,art1 ,,etc4 #fj ,,of ,,the ,,king',s ,,pictures ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,mortimer ,,menpes1 ,r4,i41 ,r4,e4 ,,described ,,by ,,dorothy ,,menpes4 ,,brittany #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,and ,,described ,,by ,r4 ,,talbot ,,kelly1 ,r4,b4,a4 ,,burma #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,henry ,b4 ,,wimbush ,,described ,,by ,,edith ,f4 ,,carey ,,the ,,channel ,,islands #gf ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,text ,,by ,,joseph ,,grego ,,cruikshank',s ,,water-,,colours #fh ,,full-,,page ,,facsimile ,,reproductions ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,,mortimer ,,menpes1 ,r4,i4 ,,text ,,by ,,dorothy ,,menpes ,,the ,,durbar #ajj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,and ,,described ,,by ,r4 ,,talbot ,,kelly1 ,r4,b4,a4 ,,egypt #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour 8,all men completely organised and justly tempered enjoy colour2 it is meant for the perpetual comfort and delight of the human heart40--,ruskin4 ,,by ,,helen ,,allingham1 ,r4,w4,s4 ,,text ,,by ,,marcus ,b4 ,,huish ,,happy ,,england #hj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,a4 ,,heaton ,,cooper ,,described ,,by ,,william ,,palmer ,,the ,,english ,,lakes #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,col4 ,r4 ,c4 ,,goff ,,described ,,by ,,mrs4 ,,goff ,,florence ,,some ,,tuscan ,,cities #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,m4 ,h4 ,,spielmann1 ,f4,s4,a41 ,,and ,g4 ,s4 ,,layard ,,kate ,,greenaway #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations 7#ea ,,in ,,colour7 ,,and ,,numerous ,,illustrations ,,in ,,the ,,text ,,by ,,nico ,,jungman ,,text ,,by ,,beatrix ,,jungman ,,holland #gf ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,john ,,fulleylove1 ,r4,i4 ,,described ,,by ,,the ,,rev4 ,,john ,,kelman1 ,m4,a4 ,,the ,,holy ,,land #ib ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations1 ,,mostly ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,,mortimer ,,menpes1 ,r4,i4 ,,text ,,by ,,flora ,a4 ,,steel ,,india #gf ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,francis ,s4 ,,walker1 ,r4,h4,a4 ,,described ,,by ,,frank ,,mathew ,,ireland #gg ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,ella ,,du ,,cane ,,described ,,by ,,richard ,,bagot ,,the ,,italian ,,lakes #fi ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,,mortimer ,,menpes1 ,r4,i4 ,,text ,,by ,,dorothy ,,menpes ,,japan #ajj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,rose ,,barton1 ,a4,r4,w4,s4 ,,familiar ,,london #fj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,w4 ,l4 ,,wyllie1 ,a4,r4,a4 ,,described ,,by ,,marian ,,amy ,,wyllie ,,london ,,to ,,the ,,nore #fj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,and ,,described ,,by ,,philip ,,norman1 ,f4,s4,a4 ,,london ,,vanished ,,and ,,vanishing #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,herbert ,m4 ,,marshall1 ,r4,w4,s4 ,,described ,,by ,g4 ,e4 ,,mitton ,,the ,,scenery ,,of ,,london #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,a4 ,s4 ,,forrest ,,described ,,by ,s4 ,l4 ,,bensusan ,,morocco #gd ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,,augustine ,,fitzgerald ,,text ,,by ,,sybil ,,fitzgerald ,,naples #hj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,nico ,,jungman ,,described ,,by ,,beatrix ,,jungman ,,norway #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,john ,,fulleylove1 ,r4,i4 ,,described ,,by ,,edward ,,thomas ,,oxford #fj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,alberto ,,pisa ,,text ,,by ,m4 ,a4 ,r4 ,,tuker ,,and ,,hope ,,malleson ,,rome #gj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,sutton ,,palmer ,,described ,,by ,a4 ,r4 ,,hope ,,moncrieff ,,bonnie ,,scotland #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,and ,,described ,,by ,a4 ,,henry ,,savage ,,landor ,,tibet ,,and ,,nepal #gf ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations 7#ej ,,in ,,colour7 ,,by ,,mortimer ,,menpes1 ,r4,i4 ,,text ,,by ,,dorothy ,,menpes ,,venice #ajj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,painted ,,by ,,robert ,,fowler1 ,r4,i4 ,,described ,,by ,,edward ,,thomas ,,beautiful ,,wales #ge ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,,mortimer ,,menpes1 ,r4,i4 ,,text ,,by ,,dorothy ,,menpes ,,war ,,impressions #ii ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,,captain ,s4 ,e4 ,,st4 ,,leger ,,war ,,sketches ,,in ,,colour #afe ,,illustrations 7#ej ,,in ,,colour7 ,,painted ,,by ,a4 ,s4 ,,forrest ,,described ,,by ,,john ,,henderson ,,the ,,west ,,indies #gd ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,,mortimer ,,menpes1 ,r4,i4 ,,text ,,by ,,dorothy ,,menpes ,,world',s ,,children #ajj ,,full-,,page ,,illustrations ,,in ,,colour ,,by ,,mortimer ,,menpes1 ,r4,i4 ,,text ,,by ,,dorothy ,,menpes ,,world ,,pictures #ejj ,,illustrations 7#ej ,,in ,,colour7 ,,published ,,by ,a4 ,c4 ,,black1 ,,soho ,,square1 ,,london1 ,w4 ,,footnotes3 #a ,the drawings of the cheese-press1 the pump1 and the fireplace in the kitchen of the cottage1 as well as of the croft at ,rolleston1 here reproduced1 were executed by ,kate ,greenaway while she was still a girl4 #b ,little ,ann and other ,poems1 by ,jane and ,ann ,taylor1 illustrated by ,kate ,greenaway1 printed in colours by ,edmund ,evans4 ,london3 ,george ,routledge ,sons1 etc4 7n4d47 #c ,the head in water-colours1 which won her the silver medal1 was bought by the late ,sir ,julian ,goldsmid4 #d ,official inscription on the drawing3 #8,national ,medallion ,award4 ,finsbury1 #ahfd4 ,stage #bb4 ,aged #ag years4 ,time in ,school1 #i sessions1 #d hours a week4 ,medals already obtained in ,stages #d;b1 #aj;a1 #aj;b1 #bb;c4 ,teachers3 ,s4 ,a4 ,doidge1 ,s4 ,hipwood4' #e ,the following is a complete list of her exhibits at the ,dudley ,gallery3-- #ahfh--,kilmeny4 #ahfi--,the ,fairies of the #8,caldon ,low4' #ahgj--;,apple ,blossom--,a ,spring ,idyll4 #ahgb--7a7 ,a ,study4 7#b7 ,a ,reverie4 #ahge--,little ,miss ,prim4 #ahgf--,little ,girls at ,play4 #ahgg--7a7 ,in ,spring ,time4 7#b7 ,dorothy4 7#c7 ,birthday ,tea4 7#d7 ,a ,procession of ,children with ,flowers4 #ahgh--7a7 ,a ,procession of ,children4 7#b7 ,darby and ,joan4 7#c7 ,miss ,patty4 #ahgi--7a7 ,prissy4 7#b7 ,a ,morning ,call4 #f ,see ,mr4 ,lionel ,robinson's introduction to the ,exhibition of ,kate ,greenaway's ,works in #ahia4 #g ,these were the first things she ever sold publicly4 ,mr4 ,loftie forgets the apparent fact that the two remaining designs were also published1 though at a later date1 for on looking through the volume of the ,people's ,magazine for #ahgc we find on pp4 #bd and #ig two of her drawings 7unsigned7 written up to respectively by #8,m1 ,e4' and #8,e4 ,j4 ,ellis4' ,the first illustrates a set of verses entitled #8,nonsense about ,cat's ,cradle'2 the second a sort of ,alice-in-,wonderland story entitled #8,bebel1' an ingenious rendering of a somewhat cryptic design4 #h ,this was also published by ,messrs4 ,marcus ,ward ,co4 #i ,of ,messrs4 ,griffith1 ,farran1 ,co41 for whom she worked later4 #aj ,an excellent account of ,mr4 ,evans's work is to be found in ,the ,british and ,colonial ,printer and ,stationer for ,march #ca1 #aijd4 #aa ,the ,april ,baby's ,book of ,tunes1 by the author of ,elizabeth and her ,german ,garden4 #ab ,as #8,k4 ,g41' the reader should be reminded1 ,miss ,greenaway was known to most of her friends1 and even to many of her relations as well4 #ac ,the originator of ,punch4 #ad ,in addition there were ,french and ,german editions1 which probably brought up the number to #ajj1jjj copies4 #ae ,it should be understood1 however--lest the strict facts of the arrangement mislead the reader--that the half-share royalty only became payable after the expenses of publication had been cleared off--that is to say1 after the sale had passed a given number of copies4 ,consequently1 as certain of the books never reached the limit1 ,k4 ,g4 only received payment for the use of the drawings1 which were returned to her4 ,such failures1 commercially speaking1 were ,a ,day in a ,child's ,life1 the ,calendars1 and one or two more4 ,it was found in practice that1 except in rare cases1 books with music were not successful4 #af ,these words have been added in ,,ms4 by ,mr4 ,evans4 #ag ,from a letter written in #ahgi it will be seen that the heaviness of her line had before been a matter of complaint with him4 #ah ,the reader will see that this is a misconception1 as ,fairy ,gifts preceded it by four years4 #ai ,see #8,christmas ,cards and their ,designers1 by ,gleeson ,white4' ,extra number of the ,studio1 #ahid1 which is full of interesting information on the subject4 #bj ,at this sale ,kate ,greenaway's illustrations to ,topo fetched--after the copyright had been used--#ce guineas2 whilst others of her pictures sold were #8,three ,innocents1' #ab guineas2 #8,my ,lady and her ,pages1' #bc guineas2 #8,the ,seasons1' #ag guineas2 #8,the ,time of ,roses1' #ah guineas2 #8,on the ,road to the ,ball1' and #8,the ,fancy ,dress ,ball1' #bh2 and #8,my ,lord's ,page and my ,lady's ,maid1' #ac guineas4 #ba #8,those indisputably by ,miss ,greenaway1' he proceeds1 #8include3 a set of children1 #ahgh2 another set1 a ,page in ,red1 with a cup1 etc42 children by ponds2 a set of little people in initial letters2 a set of damsels with muffs1 and lads in ulsters2 another set of four initials2 a ,red ,riding ,hood set2 an oblong set1 with processions of little people2 a tiny set of three2 an upright set of three single figures2 a set of heads2 and a set of 8,coachmen40 ,to these may be added the ,calendars published by ,marcus ,ward1 as well as the annual 8,kate ,greenaway's ,almanack10 published by ,geo4 ,routledge ,sons2 a set in circular panels on small cards1 published by ,goodall2 a set1 8,the ,four ,seasons02 also a calendar with four designs issued separately as cards1 and a few early cards published by ,marcus ,ward4 #8,without very minute and tedious detail1 it is not possible to identify even these in written descriptions2 but1 unless collectors have at least as many sets 7usually four in as ,i have noted71 they may still be certain that the most prized section of their collection is incomplete4 ,how many more can be traced it would be pleasant to discover4' #bb ,of these little drawings in pen-and-ink1 many of them scarcely more than an inch high1 #bib have lately been offered for sale by a ,london west-end bookseller1 prettily mounted on pages1 in an elaborately-bound morocco-covered box1 for the sum of #cjj4 #bc ,under the ,window4 #bd ,by ,miss ,laffan1 author of ,baubie ,clarke 7,blackwood1 #ahhj74 #be ,see ,under the ,windows1 p4 #ce4 #bf ,now ,lady ,st4 ,helier4 #bg ,for authorisation to reproduce these letters we are indebted to the ,german ,ambassador4 #bh ,this word is illegible4 #bi ,the lurid and dramatic witch in ,under the ,window4 #cj ,the ,greenaways were contemplating moving from ,holloway to ,hampstead4 #ca ,birket ,fosters4 #cb ,william ,black's novel1 published in #ahga4 #cc ,by his ,american friend1 ,miss ,francesca ,alexander1 the exquisite artist of ,the ,roadside ,songs of ,tuscany and the charming writer and poet who to this day with her mother are residents of ,florence1 famous for their charity1 kindliness1 and hospitality4 #cd ,ruskin's body-servant4 #ce ,this includes an edition of #b1jjj1 published by ,hachette ,cie41 of ,paris4 #cf ,miss ,francesca ,alexander4 #cg ,page #bb of ,marigold ,garden4 #ch ,a water-colour drawing of #8,rock1 ,moss1 and ,ivy' by ,k4 ,g4 is now in the ,sheffield ,museum4 ,of its origin the catalogue says #8,the sketch was made by ,miss ,greenaway in consequence of ,mr4 ,ruskin having told her one day at ,brantwood1 that she could draw pretty children daintily enough but she couldn't make a drawing of that rock4 ,miss ,greenaway hastily produced this study of it1 and presented it to ,mr4 ,ruskin4' #ci ,portrait of the present ,duke of ,argyll4 #dj ,portrait of ,lady ,campbell when a little girl--,miss ,nina ,lehmann4 ,painted in #ahfe4 #da ,lady ,campbell 7,miss ,nina ,lehmann7 on her marriage4 #db #8,aphrodite' by ,philip ,calderon1 ,r4,a4 #dc ,the ,society of ,british ,artists4 #dd ,for ,claudian--the play produced by ,wilson ,barrett1 who acted the title-rle--,ruskin had a prodigious and rather unaccountable admiration4 ,to one of the present writers1 he said during the run of the piece3 #8,i admired it so much that ,i went to see it three times out of pure enjoyment of it1 although as a rule ,i cannot sit out a tragic play4 ,it is not only that it is the most beautifully mounted piece ,i ever saw1 but it is that every feeling that is expressed in the play1 and every law of morality that is taught in it1 is entirely right4' #de ,a young lady who died young4 ,her fine character and sweet disposition ,ruskin greatly admired4 #df ,miss ,francesca ,alexander4 #dg ,the ,correspondence of ,sir ,philip ,sidney and ,hubert ,languet4 ,now first collected and translated from the ,latin with ,notes and ,memoir of ,sidney4 ,by ,stewart ,a4 ,pears 7,london1 ,william ,pickering1 #ahde74 #dh ,miss ,trotter4 #di ,miss ,burne-,jones4 #ej ,miss ,anderson1 his secretary1 of whom on rare occasions ,ruskin spoke thus4 #ea ,ruskin had much faith in the educational value of drawings from ,greek coins of the finest period4 #eb ,it was ,mr4 ,ruskin's practice to destroy everything not of special interest to him or what was unlikely to be of use4 ,on one occasion the present writer sent him by request certain early proofs of etched plates1 the coppers of which were in the ,professor's possession4 ,after a time1 on being requested to return them1 he replied that he had destroyed them--#8,how else do you think ,i could do my work if ,i litter my house with such8'--and offered by way of compensation to have as many proofs pulled as his disconsolate correspondent might desire4 #ec ,di ,pa was the pet name ,ruskin bore at that time in his immediate family circle4 #ed #8,venus1 ,mistress of the ,world'--one of the series of allegorical subjects by ,giovanni ,bellini in the ,academy of ,fine ,arts in ,venice4 #ee ,these comprised designs from the ,almanack for #ahhd1 and drawings from ,marigold ,garden1 the ,language of ,flowers1 and ,little ,ann4 #ef ,reproduced as end-papers of this volume4 #eg ,it will be remembered that although ,marie ,bashkirtseff was given out to be thirteen the facts in the book prove that she was four years older4 #eh ,held at the ,new ,gallery1 ,london4 #ei ,from the ,hampton ,court ,collection4 #fj ,lent by ,louisa ,lady ,ashburton4 ,the #8beautiful lady's name' is unknown4 #fa ,the ,wonderful ,visit1 by ,h4 ,g4 ,wells 7#ahie74 #fb ,robert ,anning ,bell1 ,r4,w4,s4 #fc ,miss ,greenaway raised the point again later on with one of the present writers1 and was vastly interested to learn that ,ruskin1 as she suspected1 is presented as #8,mr4 ,herbert1' ,huxley as #8,storks1' ,tyndall as #8,stockton1' ,jowett as #8,jenkinson1' ,kingdon ,clifford as #8,saunders1' ,carlyle as #8,donald ,gordon1' ,matthew ,arnold as #8,luke1' ,pater as #8,rose1' and ,hardinge as #8,leslie1' while ,lady ,dilke is #8,lady ,grace' and ,mrs4 ,singleton #8,mrs4 ,sinclair4' #8,then who is ,lawrence8' asked ,miss ,greenaway4 #8,mallock himself4' #8,ah6' she replied1' that settles it2 ,i don't like him4' #fd ,by ,h4 ,g4 ,wells4 #fe ,mr4 ,stuart ,m4 ,samuel1 ,m4,p4 #ff ,by ,j4 ,w4 ,waterhouse1 ,r4,a4 #fg ,byam ,shaw4 #fh ,an exhibition of the works of painters who had flourished during ,queen ,victoria's reign1 held at the ,guildhall ,art ,gallery4 #fi #8,an ,idyll1 #agde4' #gj #8,the ,proscribed ,royalist4' #ga #8,may ,morning on ,magdalen ,tower1' ,oxford4 #gb ,the net profit to ,miss ,greenaway was #fde4 ,the most important pictures sold were #8,little ,girl with ,tea ,rose' 7#ce guineas71 #8,going to ,school' 7#ce guineas71 #8,betty' 7#ce guineas71',girl in ,pink and ,black--,grey ,muff' 7#fj guineas71 #8,little ,girl in ,scarlet ,coat and ,tippet' 7#ce guineas71 #8,a ,girl in ,hat and ,feathers' 7#de guineas71 #8,thoughts of the ,sea' 7#ce guineas71 #8,two ,girls in a ,garden' 7#ce guineas71 #8,lilies' 7#ce guineas71 and #8,baby ,boy in ,blue ,coat and ,tippet' 7#ce guineas74 #gc ,by ,george du ,maurier4 #gd ,she here refers to ,millais' #8,rescue1' of which ,ruskin had written in #ahee3 #8,the only great picture exhibited this year2 but this is very great4 ,the immortal element is in it to the full4' #ge ,apparently1 ,luini's #8,st4 ,catherine4' #gf ,first volume published in #ahdc1 edited by ,douglas ,jerrold1 and written and illustrated by some of the most brilliant authors and artists of the day4 #gg ,published by ,mr4 ,austin ,dobson in his delightful article on ,kate ,greenaway in the ,art ,journal1 and written by him1 on the #bith ,january #aijb1 in the ,album of ,mr4 ,ernest ,g4 ,brown1 and here printed by consent of both gentlemen4 #gh ,see p4 #bed4 #gi ,the ,history of ,modern ,painting1 vol4 iii4 p4 #acg4 #hj ,the ,journal des ,dbats4 #ha ,so true is it that #8,greenawisme' stands for a phase of art and dress1 that in that entertaining publication1 the ,almanac ,hachette for #aijd 7p4 #cbi71 under the heading #8,l',histoire du ,costume des ,enfants1' the #8,coiffure ,greeneway' 7sic7 takes its place in the series of woodcuts immediately preceding #8la jupe cloche fin du xixe sicle'2 and many more examples might be adduced4 #hb ,to consult the drawings mentioned see the ,index of ,illustrations4 #hc ,translated by ,j4 ,levoison4 ,the ,german version1 ,am ,fester1 was translated by ,frau ,kthe ,freiligrath-,krker4