BIB_ID
313021
Accession number
MA 7792.16
Creator
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920.
Display Date
1898 June 22 .
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
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, / 49, North End Road, / West Kensington, W."
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, / 49, North End Road, / West Kensington, W."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Thanking her for the flowers and the card "from the beloved Oldie's [Ruskin] hands" on the recent death of her husband [Edward Burne-Jones]; adding that she "took the card away afterward, lest someone who did not reverence it as we did might take it for its value!"
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