BIB_ID
216669
Accession number
MA 1338 1.49
Creator
Ruskin, John James.
Display Date
[1861] Apr. 25.
Description
1 item.
Notes
Copy made by Lady Clare S. Wortley before giving original letter to F.J. Sharp.
Provenance
Forms part of the Bowerswell papers, a collection of papers of Euphemia Chalmers Gray Millais.
Summary
Asking if he can dine at Denmark Hill to advise Mr. Smith Williams about a volume of extracts from Modern Painters. He did not ask for tickets for John's Royal Institution Lecture either for himself or Mr. Harrison. "John had changed his subject & bungled all & his man [Crawley] found his lecture as different from his ... Bradford & other lectures that he lost his night's sleep on it from vexation. My son in the contrary had one of the pleasantest dreams he ever had in his life--after it so is not hurt--but I am very sorry that drawing one of the largest audiences ever seen at R. Instn. he should have taken as little trouble to do well--" [this may be a reference to the lecture at which Effie & Lady Eastlake sat in the front row laughing until he broke down].
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