BIB_ID
313344
Accession number
MA 7797.21
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
"Friday" [1900 Jan.] 26.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.2 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 collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
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
Thanking her for her letter; reflecting on the recent death of Ruskin; saying "He is gone into the Light--His soul & intellect belonged utterly to it--& he reflected it upon the world's darkness, more strongly & brightly than any other seer, or poet, or author, ever did, at least I have always thought so & I can never be thankful enough for having known him."
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