BIB_ID
310705
Accession number
MA 1940.8
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1858 Apr. 3].
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (4 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
Apologizing for any hurt he may have caused by the personal remarks he made in his last letter; saying that "I meant simply to compare your kind of distress consisting of illness with mine consisting of lost or missed happiness;" saying "you cannot bury yours [grief]. Lost strength and present illness make themselves felt every day;" resolving "never to write any more letters to anybody on topics of personal interest either to them or to me. It involves all costs of danger."
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