BIB_ID
311633
Accession number
MA 1940.86
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item ( 4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
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
Discussing depression and work; saying that "great workers themselves are not happy. They work with never ceasing toil, but quite unhesitatingly and mechanically as the Bee does. She is probably not happy certainly in a glowing sense. Titian and Turner painted just as a weaver weaves--calmly--knowing the woof good--but with as much feeling of incapacity of doing all they would as you have; and they were not half--not a thousandth part--so happy in their power, as I am in my incapacity--kneeling, as I always do when I am alone--before any of their great pictures;" saying he is sorry he didn't meet her earlier; saying his mother asks if she has read [John] Newton's Kardiphonia [Cardiphonia]?
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