BIB_ID
313026
Accession number
MA 7792.17
Creator
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920.
Display Date
1898 June 25.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 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.
Rose La Touche's governess,Miss Bunnett, was called 'Bun' and at this time Ruskin became 'Crumpet', then 'St. Crumpet' and later simply St. C'.
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."
Rose La Touche's governess,Miss Bunnett, was called 'Bun' and at this time Ruskin became 'Crumpet', then 'St. Crumpet' and later simply St. C'.
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 and "our beloved St. C." for their notes; adding "I am lost in thanksgiving that Ned was ever born into the world."
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