BIB_ID
311882
Accession number
MA 7788.35
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1886] Feb. 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 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 1886.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to 1886.
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Discussing writing he would like to do on travel and in his writing "giving the due space to accounts of friendship or of thought--there will be scant room for description as it is a part of thought;" discussing a woman named Eliza whom he knew cared a "good deal for me."
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