BIB_ID
311895
Accession number
MA 7788.39
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1888] May 2.
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 1888.
Written on stationery embossed "Sunnyside, / Orpington, / Kent."
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to 1888.
Written on stationery embossed "Sunnyside, / Orpington, / Kent."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Describing his health and saying that "from day to day all things change with me. The bodily ailments indeed seem entirely conquered--but the wanderings ( I will not say totterings, yet) of mind and heart continue;" concluding "the best that I can say of myself is that I love all my friends and lovers--better than ever and am more grieved daily for the grief I cause them."
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