BIB_ID
309051
Accession number
MA 4778.10
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1885] May 20.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1992.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.0 cm
Notes
Dating of the 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 from "28 Herne Hill, S.E.", the Ruskin family home from 1825 to 1842; Ruskin kept the house as a home for his cousin Joan Severn and her family and used it as his base when he was in London.
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 from "28 Herne Hill, S.E.", the Ruskin family home from 1825 to 1842; Ruskin kept the house as a home for his cousin Joan Severn and her family and used it as his base when he was in London.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, New York, 20 November 1992, lot 116); purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1992.
Summary
Organizing the specifics of his visit to her at Bedford Park on Saturday.
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