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.
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;"
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