BIB_ID
311974
Accession number
MA 7788.56
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1879 Dec. 6.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 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.
Written from Herne Hill.
Written from Herne Hill.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Discussing Simon's father as he is close to death; saying "I have a thousand things to reproach and shame myself for and mourn for in the pain they gave my father, with a grief far worse than the shame--while you have only well done duty to him and his unhindered and untortured pride in you for the after-glow of your twilight time;" saying he will visit them when it is not so cold; saying that "Herkomer has done a most precious drawing of me; and Boehm a bust of extreme and, more then perhaps I quite like--historical veracity--it is like a cast from life. I greatly rejoice in the better personal acquaintance with both the painter and sculptor."
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