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Autograph letter signed with initials : Harristown, Ireland, to Joan Severn, [1893] Feb 6.

BIB_ID
313479
Accession number
MA 7797.49
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
[1893] Feb 6.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18.1 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.
Possible year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter; Mrs. La Touche mentions that Mrs. Severn now has "a son of age;" The Severn's oldest son, Arthur, was 21 in 1893; Mrs. La Touche also mentions a visit with her grandson "Charlie" [Charles Ernest Hotham] who "will be five next Sept." which might date this letter to 1896; Charles was born in 1891.
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.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Relating news of family and her health.