BIB_ID
311551
Accession number
MA 1940.60
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[before December 6, 1871].
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Date of letter inferred from contents; Ruskin's mother died on December 6, 1871.
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
Thanking her for her note; saying that his mother is "fairly well--always sad--but if I let her have all her own way on the whole tranquil and able sometimes to enjoy even a drive;" saying he would like to visit her when it gets cold; saying that if she can "waste a penny for some talk of mine more legible than this, there's some in todays daily Telegraph."
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