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Helen Gill Viljoen papers, ca. 1933-1971.

BIB_ID
232661
Accession number
MA 5025
Creator
Viljoen, Helen Gill.
Display Date
ca. 1933-1971.
Credit line
Gift; Van Akin Burd; 1990.
Description
10 record storage boxes and 50 card file boxes
Provenance
Helen Viljoen; Van Akin Burd.
Summary
Extensive research notes and writings concerning John Ruskin. Includes topical card file; Viljoen's doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin: "Influences and Sources Determining the Aesthetic Theory in the First Volume of Ruskin's Modern Painters"; typescript of an unfinished biography of Ruskin; notes on the Forbes-Tyndal controversy; notes on Ruskin, Rossetti, and Aristotle; notes on Ruskin's lecture "Patience," his "Sermons on the Pentateuch," and his juvenilia; transcripts of Ruskin letters and writings; and personal letters, including some related to William Ellery Leonard.