BIB_ID
216649
Accession number
MA 1338 1.39
Creator
Ruskin, John James.
Display Date
1859 May 6.
Description
1 item.
Notes
Copy made by Lady Clare S. Wortley before giving original letter to F.J. Sharp. Note of Mrs. Viljoen: "Sometimes his phraseology in these letters gets so involved that it's really a hard job to discover what he's driving at. I'm not yet sure that in the last letter I correctly interpreted the lines about their Continental travels not hindering revises--the exceptional difficulty at that point being caused, I suppose, by his embarassment because Mr. Harrison had not been asked to revise The Two Paths."
Provenance
Forms part of the Bowerswell papers, a collection of papers of Euphemia Chalmers Gray Millais.
Summary
Sending best thanks to Mr. Harrison and Mrs. Todd for their efforts, whether they fail or succeed: "The man & woman we were interested in were the most faithful servants of the late Miss Mitford... [who left] them most of the little all she possessed." John would summon the man [Samuel Sweetman] to meet Mr. Harrison at any place he named. They are about to set forth on "Continental Travels," but this will not hinder Mr. Harrison's "being satiated with revises." The "little forthcoming column [The Two Paths, issued 10 May 1859?] is unimportant &... [Smith & Elder] like to do all themselves." But when Modern Painters V reaches Spottiwoode's, "you will have revises enough proof on proof." [P.S.], "an answer will oblige written in the dark with much feeling."
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