BIB_ID
216692
Accession number
MA 1338 1.62
Creator
Ruskin, John James.
Display Date
1862 May 12.
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
Thanking him for his congratulations for May 10th. It passed "as few of my birthdays of late years have--We dined alone--" Mrs. Ruskin's rheumatism is worse: she "can scarcely come down to Table." He cannot "remain [at table?] being rather worse & my son has a severe cold & here we have but one sitting room--" Soon Mr. Domecq will be at Denmark Hill, "where I must give Dinners if at all able to do so--I was on Saturday 77--Dr. Ray of Dulurch says I may be thankful for sight hearing & general power at my time of life but Dr. Brown of Edinburgh considers my local disease a great misery & one of the most irritating & wearing out of the many maladies of our bodies but enough of this--"
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