Norwood, S.E. June 5th.
Dear Mr. Ruskin,
Will you allow me to inform you that the utterance which you attribute
to me, on the 12th page of this month's Fors Clavigera, is quite
wrongly assigned.
It is impossible that you should at any time have heard me say from
my pulpit what you ascribe to me. Simply because I never said it,
and could not--not at all believing it.
I can only account for your misrepresentation by supposing that
during my absence from home, from February until the end of June,
in the year 1870, or again in July and August of last year, you may
have mistaken for me--some other person--doing duty in my stead.
Of course it is of no consequence to the readers of Fors Clavigera what
"the Rev. Mr. Tipple" says or does not say; but you will understand
that to "the Rev. Mr. Tipple" himself, it is of consequence--to be
exhibited in its pages--with words on his lips which are wholly at
variance with what he believes, and is engaged in trying to teach.
Will you be kind enough, therefore, to correct the error into which
you have fallen in your next number?