BIB_ID
312060
Accession number
MA 7788.68
Creator
Severn, Joan, 1846-1924.
Display Date
"Sunday evening" [1881 Feb. 20].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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 Feb. 20, 1881 and adding "Sunday evening [Feb. 20, 1881] Ruskin ill at Brantwood. In 1881 he became ill while the Severns were away and his Diary stopped abruptly after Feb. 19."
Written on stationery embossed "Herne Hill. / S.E."
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to Feb. 20, 1881 and adding "Sunday evening [Feb. 20, 1881] Ruskin ill at Brantwood. In 1881 he became ill while the Severns were away and his Diary stopped abruptly after Feb. 19."
Written on stationery embossed "Herne Hill. / S.E."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Postponing a plan to visit her as she had just received a telegram from Brantwood saying that her cousin [ Ruskin] is ill and she must go to him immediately; adding that Ruskin's illness must be "very sudden as I had an excellent report of him yesterday."
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