BIB_ID
310505
Accession number
MA 2159.68
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[year not specified] Aug. 7.
Credit line
Purchased, 1961.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Thomas Richmond. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Ruskin has not indicated the year but based on the purchase date of Brantwood, September 13, 1871, this letter most probably was written after that date.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire"
Ruskin has not indicated the year but based on the purchase date of Brantwood, September 13, 1871, this letter most probably was written after that date.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire"
Provenance
Henry W. Wollaston; purchased in 1961.
Summary
Saying that they were unable to come to visit him as the rains had returned but they will try again tomorrow; saying he "should oftener write if I were cheerful. But the best of me is in my books now--such as it is."
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