BIB_ID
188242
Accession number
MA 14337
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1859 February.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Annotation in unknown hand on back of letter: "written by John Ruskin to his friend, Mrs. John Simon, the mother of Sir John Simon."
Date of writing from penciled annotation, place of writing inferred from content.
Jane Simon and her husband Dr. John Simon were friends of John Ruskin and his parents.
Date of writing from penciled annotation, place of writing inferred from content.
Jane Simon and her husband Dr. John Simon were friends of John Ruskin and his parents.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Ruskin says that if he came today he would lay himself up tomorrow, because he's threatened by a cold. He hopes to stay in and come not much the worse tomorrow, to his sorrow, for he wanted to choose a nice book for Boo [the Simons' adopted daughter]. He asks them to ask Boo if she would like the one that he sent. Ruskin likes the pictures in it. Or if she would like a "grown-up" book? Or a story book? She may choose proudly, because he has several little people not so tall as her who will like the book if she doesn't.
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