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

Autograph letter signed "Papa R" : place not specified, to Katie Goring, [1885] May 22.

BIB_ID
309052
Accession number
MA 4778.11
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1885] May 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1992.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.5 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.
Possibly written in London.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, New York, 20 November 1992, lot 116); purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1992.
Summary
Letting her know what time his train will arrive; telling her that once he arrives he "will be wholly under your orders, as good papas always should be to good daughters."