BIB_ID
313541
Accession number
MA 7797.58
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
[1893 Jan.] 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 18.0 cm + envelope
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter.
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).
Written from 26 Molesworth Street on stationery embossed with her initials.
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).
Written from 26 Molesworth Street on stationery embossed with her initials.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Relating news of the reconstruction of their estate at Harristown; telling of the illness of her housekeeper stemming from the trauma of the house fire that destroyed Harristown in March 1891; relating news of local friends.
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