BIB_ID
313380
Accession number
MA 7797.37
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1883].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 17.7 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.
The remaining pages and the signature are missing.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed with her initials.
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter.
The remaining pages and the signature are missing.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed with her initials.
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Discussing gardening; relating loss of her staff as "our establishment has dissolved itself most unaccountably--I lament;" telling of the loss of half of their oat crop due to an infestation of Daddy Longlegs larvae; talking of a local legal case and news of family.
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