BIB_ID
285720
Accession number
MA 7362.169
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1887 Easter.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Signed "Your sick-guardless-Fratello J."
Written on stationery with "Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire" ebossed in red.
Written on stationery with "Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire" ebossed in red.
Summary
Relating that Ruskin "never saw a more perfect Easter Sun[day]," but noting that he is "badly down [him]self," "feel[s] like Jonah - and [he] want[s] to know what became of Jonah." Mentioning that he is "is not so far as [he] know[s], unwell, but very sad" and that his eyes are "flickering." Sending love to Alexander's Mammina, Lucia Gray Swett Alexander.
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