BIB_ID
310518
Accession number
MA 2159.71
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[before 1871 Dec 6].
Credit line
Purchased, 1961.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Date of writing inferred from contents of letter; Ruskin's mother died December 6, 1871.
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.
Written on stationery embossed "Denmark Hill, S."
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.
Written on stationery embossed "Denmark Hill, S."
Provenance
Henry W. Wollaston; purchased in 1961.
Summary
Saying he "got on well at Cambridge, but it is merely talking to the air--cold air--too. People only want to hear you to be amused or to know 'what you have got to say' and they have not the least idea of ever attending to it;" saying that Joan is away, his mother is complaining and Connie has been ill; saying that Rosie has been in touch with Connie "evidently meaning to keep one gossamer thread of link."
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