At various times between 1860 and 1884 Ruskin wished radically to revise Modern Painters, and to prune, sometimes, he thought, fell, volume I. His proposed rearrangement began as follows. The Introductory chapter was to remain as it is, but with some small changes (see Works, 3.80, 83-85). The next chapter ('Definition of Greatness in Art') was to be renamed 'Definition of the General Subject', and was to have the first paragraph of the following chapter added to it. Chapter III was to be entitled 'Extended Definitions of the Ideas Conveyable by Art', and to contain the present chapters III - VII, but considerably shortened. And so the putative revision continued through to the end of Part II, Section II, sometimes incorporating chapters from volume IV (see Works, 3.682-83). The fact that these notes for a rearrangement end at this point could be a clue to the fragmentary nature of the extant manuscripts of Modern Painters I, with which they coincide in coverage. Could it be that Ruskin intended to omit the rest of the text - that is, Part II, Sections III - V - and destroyed the manuscript of those sections?