BIB_ID
309499
Accession number
MA 3881.8
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1884-1889] May 12.
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Francis H. Butler and G. F. Watts. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing based on printed notes accompanying the collection.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Possible year of writing based on printed notes accompanying the collection.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Provenance
Gift of Warren R. Howell in 1983.
Summary
Expressing his delight with the shipment of micas; telling him of a note he received from a 10 year-old boy who sent him some 'slag'; requesting that Butler send Ruskin a "nice bit of bubbly lava and a bit of good big oolite" for the boy.
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