BIB_ID
106879
Accession number
MA 22911
Creator
Fisher, H. A. L. (Herbert Albert Laurens), 1865-1940.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1906 January 20
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written on mourning stationery from "34, Norham Road, / Oxford" on stationery engraved with the address.
Previously accessioned as MA 1754 and acquired as part of a large collection of letters to Cobden-Sanderson and his family.
Previously accessioned as MA 1754 and acquired as part of a large collection of letters to Cobden-Sanderson and his family.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's London, lot 708, June 27, 1956.
Summary
Thanking him for sending his "...eloquent address. I wish that you could communicate something of your broad poetical enthusiasm to all our craftsmen. Among all the movements of our time, there has surely been none which has exerted an influence of unalloyed goodness comparable to that which has glowed from the Artistic Renaissance of which Ruskin was, I suppose, the prophet, and William Morris the most versatile exponent. The idea of continuing lectures with the Exhibition appear to me to be peculiarly valuable, as indicating an intellectual synthesis above the plane of mere manual address."
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