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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : Harristown, Ireland, to Joan Severn, "Tuesday" [1894 Sept.] 25.

BIB_ID
313298
Accession number
MA 7797.18
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
"Tuesday" [1894 Sept.] 25.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 20.8 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter and contents of the 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 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
Telling of the bicycling "mania"; saying "about here it is a universal mania, people seem to have wheels instead of legs;" discussing, at length, issues with her household staff; discussing "fault" with the new house.