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Autograph letter signed with initial "S" : Folkestone, to [John Ruskin], 1884 July 28.

BIB_ID
312202
Accession number
MA 7788.87
Creator
Simon, Jane O'Meara, 1816-1901.
Display Date
1884 July 28.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.3 cm
Notes
Pages 1,2 and 4 have been marked over with a dark pen to make parallel lines.
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 "Folkestone." There is no salutation to Ruskin but the recipient is inferred from the contents of the letter.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Discussing factory workers complaints of heavy clay dust used to give body to printed calicoes before they are sent to the mill.