BIB_ID
311864
Accession number
MA 7788.32
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1882 Dec. 21].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 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 December 21, 1882.
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to December 21, 1882.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying he has lost a letter she sent him; adding "my little nursery is in great confusion, and I may find the first one under heaps of love-letters and crystallography which--illustrated variously by Christmas cards and diagrams--are falling about the floor in avalanches, if ever I try to move anything;" telling her that he does not like to come out in the evening and "I find nothing so harmful to me as talking at dinner--simply because I either swallow things whole, or don't eat; adding that "you all, who care for me, must be content to see me doing what I can in my own old furrows."
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