BIB_ID
311704
Accession number
MA 4708.12
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1872 Mar. 14.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Mary Spence. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery embossed "Corpus Christi College / Oxford and embossed with the image of "Pelican in her Piety."
Written on stationery embossed "Corpus Christi College / Oxford and embossed with the image of "Pelican in her Piety."
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Saying he is sorry for her, but he "has long been so broken and bitter hearted myself that I am incapable of any real sympathy any more. I have been so horribly treated by this girl I cared for that I should go away into the hills and never see any one except as a stranger--but that I have work to do here which it would be cowardly to quit. But I am as ill as ill can be to hold on;" adding he is sorry for them both.
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