Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Jane Simon, " Tuesday" [1882 Jan. 31].

BIB_ID
311894
Accession number
MA 7788.38
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
" Tuesday" [1882 Jan. 31].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 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 January 31, 1882.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying he would like to visit but he is unable to come in the evening; saying "one of the saddest forms of decline in me is the loss of interest in reading. Very few books have much charm left for me but I am thankful that I still care for the clouds and rocks;" adding that he is having a model made of the Coniston Fells.