Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : [London], to Mrs. Hewitt, "Saturday - 17th" [1858 Dec.].

BIB_ID
310991
Accession number
MA 1940.17
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
"Saturday - 17th" [1858 Dec.].
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Month and year 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.
Provenance
Gift of James P. Magill in 1958.
Summary
Saying he is happy to hear that she is feeling stronger; saying that "you must not ever be logical or attempt to be so: it is fatiguing and it is not a feminine gift;" saying that "in the modern world, hardly any of us do what is entirely right and the question is not what is right absolutely but what is right in a degree compatible with society's wrong;"