BIB_ID
311605
Accession number
MA 1940.73
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[before March 1864].
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
In this letter Ruskin refers to his father liking a drawing, therefore, the date of the letter would have to be prior to March 1864, the date of the death of John James Ruskin.
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 that he was glad she liked the drawing in his study and he hopes she will return in the spring; saying "I don't see the least use in even saying goodbyes at all--I never found the smallest atom of consolation in any solemn forms gone through on such occasions--and crying is only good to give headache [sic]--besides I think that one ought always to have one friend to take on when another is left--or leaves us--and so be always thinking of howdye dos--instead of goodbyes;" complimenting her on her drawing and saying that his father agrees; saying that he's not quite in tune with the children at the house but "that forenoon, we set them to play at ball in the sunshine, where they would come into the camera field and the play of light on the waving dresses was inconceivably wonderful in the camera--picture after picture flashing across it--a perfect current of Titian. Then I read to them (Lowell poetry at present) for half an hour in the evening--or a little more--and then they sing for me--half an hour or a little more--and it must be a troublesome matter that would much trouble me in the quietness of evening afterward."
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