BIB_ID
313489
Accession number
MA 7797.50
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
" Sunday 13th" [1889] Jan. 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 15.9 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; Ms. Viljoen suggests it might be 1889 or 1895.
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.
Possible year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter; Ms. Viljoen suggests it might be 1889 or 1895.
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
Wishing her a belated Happy New Year; discussing the "curiously horrible weather" they are having that winter.
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