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IV. FONTAINEBLEAU 319
how to please me. I had it at the foot of my bed next morning, like my own “Loch Achray” of old.1 But the pleasure of one’s own first painting everybody can understand. The pleasure of a new Turner to me, nobody ever will, and it’s no use talking of it.
For the second volume, (not meant to be the least like what it is,) I wanted more Chamouni. The journey of 1844 was planned entirely for central Alps, and on June 1st, 1844, we were happy by Lake Leman shore, again.2
1 [See above, p. 216.]
2 [For particulars of the winter 1842-1843, when the first volume of Modern Painters was being written, see Vol. III. pp. xxix.-xxxi.; for its publication and reception, ibid., pp. xxxi.-xl.; for Ruskin’s movements in 1843, and in the early part of 1844 (when he was preparing a second edition of the volume), ibid., p. xliv.]
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