BIB_ID
312051
Accession number
MA 7788.66
Creator
Severn, Joan, 1846-1924.
Display Date
[1887] Dec. 13.
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.
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to 1887 and December 13 to a Tuesday.
Written from "2 Devonshire Terrace / Sandgate / Kent."
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to 1887 and December 13 to a Tuesday.
Written from "2 Devonshire Terrace / Sandgate / Kent."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying how happy she is that "coz" [Ruskin] is doing so much better and saying that she is enjoying her time with him; adding "we always dine with him at 6!-- and spend our evenings together and I quite think this last attack has passed off and will have no farther serious consequences;" discussing a trip to see her son in his school play, from there to London for two days and then to Brantwood for Christmas.
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