BIB_ID
313147
Accession number
MA 7792.50
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
[1877 Oct.].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen. She also suggests it may have been "1880? or 1881?."
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 "New Steine Hotel, / Brighton."
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 "New Steine Hotel, / Brighton."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Telling him he doesn't believe he was overworked but that he is resting now; saying "but O me how people tease about overwork--there's no overwork possible--its [sic] mankind that tires one not work--and I should have been so happy these last three months if it hadn't been for people--London grows to be pandemonium literally and after watching their ways for a couple of months I want to kill myself--since I can't kill them--this is quite serious--I am only tired out with seeing people I don't want to see--I no longer grieve at not seeing those I do want--I am ready to bargain with Fortune if only I may be a little at peace;" suggesting the possibility of traveling again with him to Italy, "not south of Assisi", next year; complimenting him on his paper on Scott; hoping they will see one another in London.
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