BIB_ID
309556
Accession number
MA 3881.17
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1885 Apr. 20.
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 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.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Provenance
Gift of Warren R. Howell in 1983.
Summary
Thanking him for cleaning his collection; requesting that he not be sent any calcites as he is tired of them; reminding him that it is of "the greatest importance in science to keep ourselves quit of all conjectures and to found all our knowledge on direct observation of nature's work;" thanking him for his compliments on his Florentine book.
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