BIB_ID
310703
Accession number
MA 1940.7
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1858 Apr. 1].
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Location and date of writing from postmark.
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Mrs. Hewitt. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Mrs. Hewitt. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of James P. Magill in 1958.
Summary
Asking her for an account "of the last occasion on which you were grateful to anybody for what cost them nothing?" saying that "it is a very sad sight to me to think that my fellow creatures feminine are so entirely shut out from all that lovely world which I can see--and that their emotions depend so pitifully on the display of what they suppose to be cleverness--but I shouldn't mind that--if only they could see something."
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