BIB_ID
313765
Accession number
MA 7795.11
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1883] Nov. 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 15.0 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
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.
The concluding pages and signature of this letter are missing.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
This fragment of a letter appears to be written in a hand other than Froude's, however, it is unclear whether it is a manuscript copy or written in the hand of a secretary.
Written from "5 Onslow Gardens."
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.
The concluding pages and signature of this letter are missing.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
This fragment of a letter appears to be written in a hand other than Froude's, however, it is unclear whether it is a manuscript copy or written in the hand of a secretary.
Written from "5 Onslow Gardens."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Discussing his work on the letters and memorials [of Jane Welsh Carlyle] and his continuing work on "his [Carlyle] own letters and journals of the same period; a Rembrandt portrait forms itself exquisitely noble--yet this more and more is impressed upon me that he had not naturally a robust constitution of character. Instead of quiet strength he had passion--generous through every emotion of it, but still passion--and running out of control at every turn. His strength was moral, the moral determination to do right and speak truth which governed his general thought & general action with a completeness unparalleled in our days--but left him open to impatiences and irritabilities &c &c in a way that was terribly trying."
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