BIB_ID
313343
Accession number
MA 7797.20
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
[1886 June].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 18.0 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from published 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).
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.
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
Explaining that she is sending a packet of I.L.P.U. [Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union] literature in advance of the Federal Election on Irish Home Rule; discussing Edward Lear's "Nonsense Botany" and Irish daffodils; thanking her for sending the "dietary rules. I am sure they are excellent & I will keep them carefully--I mean I will keep them in a drawer. I am not so sure of keeping them as we keep, or ought to keep, the ten commandments. I think I will wait till I am a little fatter;" relating news of a friend who was "enormously fat" who went to a "sort of Hospital or Cure establishment;" relating news of their bad weather.
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