Eagles 's review of Turner in Blackwood's Magazine, October 1836 infuriated the seventeen-year-old Ruskin, who on 1 October 1836, three weeks before matriculating at Oxford, drafted a stinging reply. John James Ruskin recommended that his son's letter to the editor be sent to Turner first for his approval, but the artist preferred it to remain unpublished, as Ruskin records in Praeterita ( Works, 35.218). The original letter was drafted in the seventh of the 'Red Books' of Ruskin's juvenilia now housed in the Beinecke Library at Yale, and is reprinted by Cook and Wedderburn as 'A Reply to "Blackwood's" Criticism of Turner' ( Works, 3.xviii and Works, 3.635-40).