BIB_ID
311875
Accession number
MA 7788.33
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1883 Feb. 10.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 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.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying he is working on an addenda to the new 2nd volume of Modern Painters; telling her that the Deucalion is coming from the printers today and he will send her a copy; hoping that she finds that he is still writing well and that when she sees the drawings he made in Italy last year, she will think he still draws well; adding that he is slowing down physically; saying that he is working on the lectures that he will deliver at Oxford and he is "well assured that without effort, I can write as many simples lectures for them as they will expect, in the year. If I feel too dull I shall read things written before;" saying that he believes that he can still do good work but that "the fear of Death was never closer to me, or sadder--than it is now, day by day; the Hope of any good thing, beyond death, more dim."
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