BIB_ID
311652
Accession number
MA 1940.95
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.9 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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Provenance
Gift of James P. Magill in 1958.
Summary
Saying she amuses him "mightily, as far as anything can amuse me, with your notions of 'self-denial' and the way it is to be brought about;" relating it to the Roman fable of Marcus Curtius and to the last stanza of George Herbert's poem 'The Dialogue', from which he quotes the last stanza.
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