BIB_ID
309159
Accession number
MA 4778.24
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1886 May 18.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1992.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 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
Expressing disappointment that Katie seems "a hundred years old" for "liking the Messiah and all that grand sort of thing;" telling Katie that he does like "grand music" at all but rather the simple nursery rhymes of childhood, "the songs of Sixpence and a pocketfull of Rye."
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