"Yet again, in 1887 when almost aged 70, Ruskin falls in love and proposes to a young teenager, Kate Olander. His writing to her again is from the groin rather than the heart. 'I was lying awake last night and planned what you can wear around your neck...it is to be finest and purest chain of Venice..no gold is so pure and they make the links so small it looks like the white of Avanel's girdle..but I'm going to have it seven times round; rather tight for a necklace to show what a perfectly chained and submissive child you are; so mind you send me the measure carefully, just above the shoulders.' This time Kate's letters back to the white bearded Ruskin were kept from him and he was again left with just his art and the Lakeland fells."
"Lakestay - Ruskin infatuation with girls"
http://www.lakestay.co.uk/ruskin.htm
I'd like to know what her letters back to him said.
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