BIB_ID
312062
Accession number
MA 7788.69
Creator
Severn, Joan, 1846-1924.
Display Date
[1881 Feb. 21].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.0 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. 21, 1881" with an additional note on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen as follows: "Mon. = Feb 21 & Feb 28, 1881; announcing R's 2nd illness; R's last Diary entry = Feb. 19. Became seriously ill on the 20th (L.H. to C.E.N.)"
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to "Feb. 21, 1881" with an additional note on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen as follows: "Mon. = Feb 21 & Feb 28, 1881; announcing R's 2nd illness; R's last Diary entry = Feb. 19. Became seriously ill on the 20th (L.H. to C.E.N.)"
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Informing her that Ruskin is ill again "with a breakdown of brain--it is in every way similar to the last attack but as yet without such violence and malice; saying that their past experience helps them to know what is best to do; adding that they are anxious that this not be made public; saying "I am miserable at ever having left him even for so short a time for I guard him daily with the most jealous care--Heaven only knows whether this could have been prevented - I fear not under any circumstances."
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