BIB_ID
313345
Accession number
MA 7797.23
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
[1900] Mar. 1.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
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).
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Expressing sympathy for the continuing sorrow she must be feeling at the loss of Ruskin; offering to contribute her letters from Ruskin to any future biography of him; saying "There are some lovely things in them--written in his lighter moods--very characteristic--light bright bits of thought--that nobody else in the world could have felt or expressed; expressing her concern that she [Joan Severn] and Arthur have the flu; telling of her son and grandson's desires to volunteer for the army; asking if her boys "have caught the war fever. It is as prevalent & as infectious as influenza."
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