BIB_ID
312925
Accession number
MA 7792.1
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
[1886 May 21].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dating from a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen. Enclosed in the letter is stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston. Lancashire." with an inked notation by Ruskin at the top of p.1 "Ned. No date - but 1886. Thirty years since he first saw me 1856. therefore Praeterita - II.VII."
Part of a collection consisting of 64 letters from Sir Edward and Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones primarily to John Ruskin, Joan Severn, and their circle, dated ca. 1864 to 1918. Collection also contains copies of seven letters of Lady Burne-Jones to Ruskin from 1862, and three related envelopes. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "The Grange, / West Kensington, W."
Part of a collection consisting of 64 letters from Sir Edward and Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones primarily to John Ruskin, Joan Severn, and their circle, dated ca. 1864 to 1918. Collection also contains copies of seven letters of Lady Burne-Jones to Ruskin from 1862, and three related envelopes. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "The Grange, / West Kensington, W."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying it had been thirty years since he first met him in Gabriel's [Rossetti] studio at Blackfriars Bridge; saying he was 23 years old then and in looking back "I see that I was a month old and that those 23 years are not to count--I'll be what age I like, and have been born when I like and presently I mean to come out with my own "Praeterita" & you mustn't fail me or express surprise if you find me stating that I have been a pirate and an arab before I settled down. You won't tell, will you? and if you write about me do cheat a bit and pretend."
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