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Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8) / Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain

Chapter 23: Subscriptions to St. George’s Fund
By John Ruskin
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A series of letters addressed to workmen and labourers blends practical moral instruction, art criticism, and social commentary. The author moves between close observations of everyday life and broader reflections on industry, education, public policy, and craftsmanship, citing concrete anecdotes and parliamentary debates to illustrate problems such as poor workmanship, commercial corruption, and negligent reforms. Essays within the letters combine historical and aesthetic references with calls for civic responsibility and humane labor practices, aiming to connect artistic ideals to the material conditions and habits that shape working communities.

Subscriptions to St. George’s Fund

TO CLOSE OF YEAR 1874.

(The Subscribers each know his or her number in this List.)

£ s. d.
1. Annual, £4 0 0 (1871, ’72, ’73, ’74) 16 0 0
2. Annual, £20 0 0 (1871, ’72, ’73, ’74) 80 0 0
3. Gift 5 0 0
4. Gifts (1871), £30 0 0; (1873), £20 0 0 50 0 0
5. Gift (1872) 20 0 0
6. Annual, £1 1 0 (1872, ’73, ’74) 3 3 0
7. Gift (1872) 10 0 0
8. Annual, £20 0 0 (1872, ’73, ’74) 60 0 0
9. Gift (1872) 25 0 0
10. Annual, £5 0 0 (1872, ’73) 10 0 0
11. Annual, £1 1 0 (1873, ’74) 2 2 0
12. Gift (1873) 4 0 0
13. Annual, £3 0 0 (1873, ’74) 6 0 0
14. Gift (1873) 13 10 0
15. Gift (1873) 5 0 0
16. Gift (1874) 25 0 0
17. Gift,, (1874),, 1 0 0
18. Gift,, (1874),, 10 0 0
19. Gift,, (1874),, 5 0 0
20. Gift,, (1874),, 2 0 0
21. Gift,, (1874),, 10 10 0
22. Gift,, (1874),, 1 1 0
23. Gift,, (1874),, 5 0 0
24. Gift,, (1874),, 1 1 0
£370 7 0

One or two more subscriptions have come in since this list was drawn [294]up; these will be acknowledged in the January number, and the subjoined letter from Mr. Cowper-Temple gives the state of the Fund in general terms.

Broadlands, Romsey,
December 9, 1874.

Dear Ruskin,

The St. George’s Fund, of which Sir Thomas Acland and I are Trustees, consists at present of £7,0001 Consolidated Stock, and of £923 standing to the credit of our joint account at the Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane Branch. Contributions to this fund are received by the Bank and placed to the credit of our joint account.

Yours faithfully,
W. Cowper-Temple.

[1]

1 I have heard that some impression has got abroad that in giving this £7,000 stock to the St. George’s Company, I only parted with one year’s income. It was a fairly estimated tenth of my entire property, including Brantwood. The excess of the sum now at the credit of the Trustees, over the amount subscribed, consists in the accumulated interest on this stock. With the sum thus at their disposal, the Trustees are about to purchase another £1,000 of stock, and in the Fors of January will be a more complete statement of what we shall begin the year with, and of some dawning prospect of a beginning also to our operations. ↑