BIB_ID
313249
Accession number
MA 7797.10
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
" Friday 15th" [1893] .
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 17.5 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.
The Harristown estate burned down in March 1891 and from then until the La Touches moved into the rebuilt house in September 1893, they lived in a small cottage in Brannockstown.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on mourning paper.
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.
The Harristown estate burned down in March 1891 and from then until the La Touches moved into the rebuilt house in September 1893, they lived in a small cottage in Brannockstown.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Relating the preparation activities surrounding the annual School feast in which she is involved that day; discussing, at length, the small cottage in which they are living temporarily; discussing the work of rebuilding Harristown and saying that the "new house is nearly finished and we mean to get into it as soon as rooms enough for us are ready, the rest can be gone on with when we are there;" discussing the upcoming elections on Home Rule.
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