Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Jane Simon, [1862].

BIB_ID
311796
Accession number
MA 7788.12
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1862].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
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 "Autumn late 1862."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Noting at the top of the letter that "this is for John--but you must open it or you'll be making custards;" asking him to "Read enclosed."