BIB_ID
311787
Accession number
MA 7788.8
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1862 May 18].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. John Simon / 44. Gt Cumberland St / Bryanston Sq / W. London."
Part of a collection of letters primarily from John Ruskin and Joan Severn to Dr. and Mrs. Simon. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to May 18, 1862.
Part of a collection of letters primarily from John Ruskin and Joan Severn to Dr. and Mrs. Simon. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to May 18, 1862.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying he is well; asking her to tell her husband that he has told his publisher to send "my preface to him and to take all alterations he makes. Also to consult him and do as he bids about the binding; adding that he is "off to Strasburg tomorrow, next day, I hope, Lauffenbourg and Wednesday Lucerne."
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