BIB_ID
311737
Accession number
MA 4708.31
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1875 Feb. 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.0 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 that the drawing arrived safely and apologizing for not having let her know immediately; saying that his work depends on a "steady tone" and that writing or sending a telegram "may often spoil a good hours work for me;" saying that she should not worry about little things as "the world is perhaps coming into conflagration. It will burn up a drawing or two for us, anyhow;" telling her that "Granite's working on false principles altogether; trying to do much before he can do a little. He will have to work in a wholly different way. Pencil point and nothing else and draw small and only from reality."
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