BIB_ID
313535
Accession number
MA 7797.56
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
[1882].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; cm
Notes
Mrs. La Touche volunteered with the Kilcullen Dorcas Society; women of the town made goods to raise money to help the sick and the poor; hand-woven socks were one of their products.
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 typescript by Helen Gill Viljoen that accompanies this letter; place of writing inferred from contents.
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 typescript by Helen Gill Viljoen that accompanies this letter; place of writing inferred from contents.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Thanking her for her sock order; talking of the weather and the fact that it is "not a bit like summer;" relating news of her grandson, Ernest Ward, who is staying with her.
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