BIB_ID
313086
Accession number
MA 7792.29
Creator
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920.
Display Date
1916 Dec. 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 cm + envelope
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).
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Sharing her memories of their younger days together; relating her days spent recently with a young girl who is reading to her and to whom she is introducing Ruskin through 'Sesame & Lilies'; saying "how thankful I am that I knew him & his words in my youth;" saying how much she enjoyed reading 'Joanna's Care' and how glad she is that " he [Ruskin] wrote it. You were the Angel of his life--a mixture of daughter & sister."
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