BIB_ID
216609
Accession number
MA 1338 1.26
Creator
Ruskin, John James.
Display Date
1859 July 12.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24 cm.
Notes
With address.
Provenance
Forms part of the Bowerswell papers, a collection of papers of Euphemia Chalmers Gray Millais.
Summary
Noting that Mr. Harrison's letter on the death of Mr. Telford has arrived; John James Ruskin's memories of Mr. Telford as a business partner and tribute to him as a man. Is glad that Mr. Harrison has met Mr. Munro, the sculptor--about whom there is an extreme sweetness and simplicity. Has seen in newspapers reports of Mr. Harrison's Literary Fund proceedings--hurt by Dickens's meddling. His admiration for Mr. Gladstone. Signed of impending war in Germany--tonight 40,000 Bavarians moving toward Rhine, hotel full of officers, etc. They have just spent a week "in Prout's Nuremberg."
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