BIB_ID
313544
Accession number
MA 7797.60
Creator
La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906.
Display Date
[1882].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (10 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen inserted in this letter.
Mrs. La Touche volunteered for the Kilcullen Dorcas Society, a local charity that sold handmade goods to raise money for the poor and the sick.
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).
Mrs. La Touche volunteered for the Kilcullen Dorcas Society, a local charity that sold handmade goods to raise money for the poor and the sick.
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).
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Discussing garden plantings; describing the handwoven stockings that the Dorcas Society is making and selling; complaining of her duties in keeping the accounts for the Society; relating news of her granddaughter who is visiting; inviting her to visit.
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