BIB_ID
311808
Accession number
MA 7788.17
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1866 June 5.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.9 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.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying he has nothing pleasant to tell her; saying he is working at botany and drawing and "I admire things more than ever but have less delight in admiration;" saying he hopes to do some rowing and climbing; asking in a postscript if she would tell her husband that "as I get a broader view of botany, I have a most uncomfortable sensation of every thing changing into every thing else. I've been studying a lovely thing, Dryas Octopetala, which is a rose taught to live like a saxifrage. (I'm afraid that's only possible in botany, by the way) and getting the curious thick ground leaf of the saxifrage--and a little gleam of anemone-look in its flower."
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