BIB_ID
313106
Accession number
MA 7792.35
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
[1883 Feb. 14].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 13.7 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen.
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 that he wrote in error that morning when he said that glass needed to be thick and that older glass was thicker; saying Morris will send him [Ruskin] a memorandum of his experience & a box of specimens and he would like to talk with Ruskin about it; saying "I feel aged this morning because of the nature of great men who are so trying--if one could just do without them!" asking "art thou 64? I don't think it--we will always be between thirty and fifty and choose the year we like it to be--today I am fifty because Morris wouldn't let me have it all my own way in talk--tomorrow I will be thirty if i can."
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