Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed "Papa R" : Brantwood, Coniston, to Katie Goring, [1885 Mar.].

BIB_ID
309040
Accession number
MA 4778.5
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1885 Mar.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1992.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dating from penciled notation on p.1.
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Katie Goring. 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
Sale (Christie's, New York, 20 November 1992, lot 116); purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1992.
Summary
Recommending three "great-great-third cousins of mine", Lily Severn, Arthur Severn, and Agnew Kristin Severn, and also their friend, Norah Druce, for admission to the Friends of Living Creatures.