BIB_ID
312076
Accession number
MA 7788.75
Creator
Severn, Joan, 1846-1924.
Display Date
1881 Mar. 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 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.
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to "Monday".
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to "Monday".
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Reporting that Ruskin continues to improve; adding "I can hardly realize that our anxiety is ended so suddenly but I'm sorry to say tho' he seems quite well mentally, just as last time, he is very naughty and refuses to believe how ill he has been and abuses us all today for our treatment of him. It is a very uncomfortable phase for us and I trust will soon pass. He little knows the intense anxiety and sorrow for him we have had this last month."
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