BIB_ID
311357
Accession number
MA 1940.47
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1859] July 3.
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (3 p.,with address) ; 22.0 cm
Notes
Likely year of writing determined from contents of the letter and from reference to Ruskin's itinerary for his trip to the Continent from May 20 through October 1, 1859. It was the last trip to the continent with his parents. Detailed itinerary of Ruskin's trip may be found in The Works of John Ruskin, vol. 7, London: George Allen, 1905, edited by E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, p. xlvii-lv.
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 from "Leipsic".
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 from "Leipsic".
Provenance
Gift of James P. Magill in 1958.
Summary
Saying that he has been staying in Dresden and working from Veronese and Titian; saying that in Berlin he saw 15,000 troops under mobilization and he "never imagined to find so fine an army--all the men so healthy and so colossal--and longing to fight anybody. A grand national game it is of war--highly moral and instructive to everybody and generally beneficial. Can you at all fancy what the world might have been by this time if the money, time and strength, which men have employed since they became Christians, in killing each other, had been spent in helping each other?;" saying "we have seen galleries, driven about the promenades, dined and gone to sleep--or not to sleep--daily--like machines."
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