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Autograph letter signed "Papa R" : Brantwood, Coniston, to Katie Goring, [1885] May 7.

BIB_ID
309048
Accession number
MA 4778.9
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1885] May 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1992.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dating of year 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
Indicating he hopes to see her soon as he is coming to London; asking that she send him another of "the blue flowers" to the Severn's at Herne Hill and he will try to identify it; saying he will write again from Herne Hill.