BIB_ID
313763
Accession number
MA 7795.10
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1883 Aug.].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
Froude was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel.
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 "The Molt, / Salcombe."
Froude was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel.
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 "The Molt, / Salcombe."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying he was hoping to see him in London but heard from his cousin [Joan Severn] that he was at Brantwood; telling him that he has come down to Devon; referring to Lady Shelley being "in dispair over Jeaffresons [sic] book and so undertook the thing having a few idle days on my hands;" saying that Lady Shelley has privately printed the Shelley Journals and Correspondence and he will send them to him when he returns to Denmark Hills; telling him that Oriel College with be hosting a "great dinner" on October 11th "when the notabilities of the last 40 years are to be gathered. There will be a fine assemblage;" adding that he is not sure he will attend.
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