BIB_ID
309589
Accession number
MA 3881.26
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1886 May].
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dating from penciled notation on p. 1.
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."
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."
Provenance
Gift of Warren R. Howell in 1983.
Summary
Saying "this little gold is inestimable! but as for its being distorted octahedron--I'm much more like a distorted octahedron than it!--Who's been telling you that bosh?;" clarifying that he's looking for "big white oolite of the German springs."
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