BIB_ID
311121
Accession number
MA 1940.32
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
"Monday" [1864] Apr. 18.
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Accompanied by an envelope that is postmarked April 23, 1862, but as Ruskin's father died March 3, 1964, this envelope could not have contained this letter.
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.
Written on mourning paper.
Year of writing from contents of letter.
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.
Written on mourning paper.
Year of writing from contents of letter.
Provenance
Gift of James P. Magill in 1958.
Summary
Thanking her for her kind letter and saying that when he sees her in May he will tell her anything she would like to know about his father; saying that he was glad for his mother's sake that he was at home when his father died; saying his father died "unconsciously--at least speechlessly-- a long death of three days and nights;" saying "My mother fortunately was too blind to see the worst of it;" saying "my father had been dead to me in all the inner and deep senses of death for many years--not that he knew that--but things to me are just what they were--mixed only with a profound pity for the poor father lying in the clay in this Spring time."
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