BIB_ID
312243
Accession number
MA 7788.94
Creator
Simon, Jane O'Meara, 1816-1901.
Display Date
1900 Feb 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.8 cm
Notes
Judith Couttet was the daughter of Joseph Marie Couttet, a Swiss guide whom Ruskin met on 7 June 1844 in Chamonix and who became a mentor and a friend.
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 "40 Kensington Sq. W."
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 "40 Kensington Sq. W."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Enclosing a letter from Judith Couttet which she would like returned; commenting that "the way to make Mr. Ruskin known is to publish cheap editions--a Society as [illegible] would be as absurd and as much ridiculed as the Browning Society."
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