BIB_ID
313716
Accession number
MA 7795.5
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1879] Dec. 24.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from James Anthony Froude to John Ruskin and Joan Severn. 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 on stationery embossed "5 Onslow Gardens, / S.W."
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "5 Onslow Gardens, / S.W."
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Acknowledging that "the harvest is passed, the summer is over and I am not forgiven....but indeed I do not know what I have done wrong since October when you talked of coming into Devonshire to see me;" telling him that he has just received a telegram informing him that his "eldest boy is dead;" adding that "the post when it comes will tell me whether he has drunk himself to death or shot himself to death. It is one or the other."
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