BIB_ID
313116
Accession number
MA 7792.41
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
[1884 Aug. 7].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 13.7 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation at the top of 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 after opening the drawings Rooke sent him he couldn't wrap them again, hid them, tried to forget about them but felt "wicked about it;" he sent them to Hollyer to pack and send to Ruskin.
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