BIB_ID
311824
Accession number
MA 7788.26
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1869 Mar. 24].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item 1 (2 p.) ; 17.8 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 "? Mar 24, 69."
Written on stationery embossed "Denmark Hill, S.E."
With a penciled notation on p.1 "? Mar 24, 69."
Written on stationery embossed "Denmark Hill, S.E."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying he cannot come to dine as he is "ill and weary;" asking if they might come "next week--to dinner and quiet chat after?" adding in a postscript that "I have only dined with the Nortons because I may never see them again after this year."
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