BIB_ID
309045
Accession number
MA 4778.7
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1885 Mar. 25.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1992.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
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."
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
Telling Katie he is sending her letter on to Francesca [Alexander] as "she will like so much to hear of the Society;" humorously telling her how "extremely wicked" he thinks it is for the two boys "to leave us" [the Society] after two months; expressing sympathy that she is ill, wishing her a speedy recovery.
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