BIB_ID
313722
Accession number
MA 7795.6
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1881] Feb. 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 17.7 cm
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).
This manuscript copy of a letter is written in an unknown hand; the location of the original letter is not known.
Written from "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).
This manuscript copy of a letter is written in an unknown hand; the location of the original letter is not known.
Written from "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
Thanking him for his letter and the assurance that "I have not lost your regard as I feared;" telling him that "the two hours which you once gave me in the South Kensington Museum left me richer in new knowledge than any two hours which I can remember;" discussing, at length, certain events surrounding the death of Carlyle; asking for his help with the Carlyle biography; telling him that "I had to refuse Westminster Abbey peremptorily. He [Carlyle] had insisted that he should be taken to Scotland--Haddington ought to have been the place, but some difficulty was raised (I know not what) a few years ago. And Ecclefechan was ordered instead."
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