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 : place not specified, to Mrs. Hewitt, [before December 6, 1871].

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.
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."