BIB_ID
313238
Accession number
MA 7797.8
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
[187?].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter.
Part of a collection comprising 75 letters from Maria La Touche, consisting of six letters to John Ruskin, one letter to Ruskin's mother, Margaret Cock Ruskin and 68 letters to Joan Severn. Letters are largely undated, but were written from about 1861 to the 1890's. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This 8-page fragment ends mid-sentence; the remainder is missing.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery from The Eccles' Hotel, Glengarriff, Ireland.
Part of a collection comprising 75 letters from Maria La Touche, consisting of six letters to John Ruskin, one letter to Ruskin's mother, Margaret Cock Ruskin and 68 letters to Joan Severn. Letters are largely undated, but were written from about 1861 to the 1890's. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This 8-page fragment ends mid-sentence; the remainder is missing.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery from The Eccles' Hotel, Glengarriff, Ireland.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Thanking her for her letter and for the list of plants sent to her by Miss Beever; discussing, at length and in great detail, the flowers and plants of Ireland; relating her attempts to paint a landscape.
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