BIB_ID
107064
Accession number
MA 2570.1
Creator
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, 1841-1885.
Display Date
London, England, 1879 November 26.
Credit line
Gift of Douglas C. Ewing, 1967.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 19.2 x 12.2 cm
Notes
Acquired with and housed with MA 2570.2, a letter from Ewing to John Ruskin dated 1 December 1879.
Written from "131 Finborough Rd. / S. Kensington."
Written from "131 Finborough Rd. / S. Kensington."
Provenance
Gift of Douglas C. Ewing, 1967.
Summary
Accepting an invitation; saying "You are most kind. I have been tediously unwell since my breakdown - with violent headaches & backaches! But the last 2 days have been much better - (& am greatly cheered up by Major Ewing's having got a month's leave to come home & see me!) Thank you very much - we will go to you to luncheon on Thursday if that is convenient. It will be thus much more convenient for me than tea - that I am going onto Woolwich for two or three days, and do not want to be out very late. I am so sorry Mr. Ruskin has been one of the numerous victims to the weather! I have been out of doors in Canada with the thermometer at 20° below zero & no wind, feeling no discomfort beyond a slight tendency to gasp - but melting snow and an east wind round the corner wither me! In case Thursday has now got filled up with you I may as well say I shall be out of London till the following Monday. Thank you for yr. kind sympathy in what has been a vy great disappointment to me!"
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