BIB_ID
190970
Accession number
MA 7362.168
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1887 Apr. 4.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed "Ever your lovingest Fratello."
Written on stationery with "Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire" ebossed in red. Envelope with seal and postmarks (marked Ambleside and Firenze) addressed to Miss Alexander, 21, Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, and with docket on verso.
Written on stationery with "Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire" ebossed in red. Envelope with seal and postmarks (marked Ambleside and Firenze) addressed to Miss Alexander, 21, Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, and with docket on verso.
Summary
Thanking Alexander for her letter, noting that it is "invaluable" to Ruskin "as well as to the readers of [Christ's] Folk [in the Apennine]," as it "describes secenery and people of which [Ruskin] had not the least idea and [contains] pieces of history [that] are delicious, [furthering his] continually reiterated doctrine of trust in race." Mentioning Joan Severn will leave Brantwood on Thursday, and noting that Ruskin "will have to get on by [him]self for about a fortnight when [he] shall have somebody to take care of [him] again."
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