BIB_ID
313152
Accession number
MA 7792.53
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
[1878 Nov. 26].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 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.
The judge ruled in favor of Whistler in his libel suit against Ruskin but the jury's award of damages to Whistle was one farthing (1/4 penny).
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
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.
The judge ruled in favor of Whistler in his libel suit against Ruskin but the jury's award of damages to Whistle was one farthing (1/4 penny).
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
Relating the details of his testimony on behalf of Ruskin during the Whistler trial; enclosing "a fourth part of a halfpenny stamp which I do in justice think I owe to my blessed Oldie [Ruskin] for any possible injury I may have done to his cause."
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