BIB_ID
308750
Accession number
MA 1406.5
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1884-1885] Aug. 3.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1952.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dating: Ruskin has not indicated the year; based on the location of this letter within the collection it was probably written in 1884 or 1885.
Part of a small collection of letters from John Ruskin to the mineralogist and dealer in stones Robert Damon. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Part of a small collection of letters from John Ruskin to the mineralogist and dealer in stones Robert Damon. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Provenance
Listed in a 1910 Maggs catalog (cat. 262, lot 839); and in a 1952 Carnegie Bookshop catalog (cat. 167, lot 374); gift of DeCoursey Fales in 1952.
Summary
Requesting Mr. Damon's catalogue; noting he is going "to slice the two round agates I kept;" expressing suspicion that one is "coloured" and also perhaps one that he returned and "should have bought;" including two small drawings, within the text, indicating the shape of the agates he suspects are coloured.
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