BIB_ID
188241
Accession number
MA 14327
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, sender.
Display Date
London, England?, between 1854 and 1870
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pags) ; 18 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Date range inferred from context. The letter would have to be written after 1854, when C. A. Steinheil & Sohne (referred to in the letter) was founded, and before 1870, when Miller left his post as professor of mineralogy at Cambridge.
Place of writing inferred from content. Ruskin lived in London at Denmark Hill during the years when the letter was written, and refers to Kingsley visiting him "in town."
William Towler Kingsley, Rector of South Kilvington, was a friend of Ruskin's and Turner's. Kingsley was a science lecturer at Cambridge, which may have been how he knew Miller, and he kept telescopes in every room of his Yorkshire rectory.
Place of writing inferred from content. Ruskin lived in London at Denmark Hill during the years when the letter was written, and refers to Kingsley visiting him "in town."
William Towler Kingsley, Rector of South Kilvington, was a friend of Ruskin's and Turner's. Kingsley was a science lecturer at Cambridge, which may have been how he knew Miller, and he kept telescopes in every room of his Yorkshire rectory.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Ruskin says that he asked [William] Kingsley, when he was in town, for advice about finding two serviceable telescopes for boys around the ages of twelve or fourteen, and Kingsley had referred him to Miller. Kingsley suggested that Miller could procure two such telescopes from Steinheil of Munich [C. A. Steinheil & Sohne]. Ruskin wishes him and Mrs. Miller [Harriet Susan Miller] a happy new year. He asks if she has been drawing at all this season, or if she has given it ("or me") up, and if he may hope to some day see more mountains and chalets by her.
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