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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to John Ruskin, [1884] Nov. 3.

BIB_ID
313779
Accession number
MA 7795.16
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1884] Nov. 3.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 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).
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
Questioning Ruskin's apparent intention to "turn R. [Roman] Catholic and if you do that will distress and perplex me and help to drown the plank on which I try to float.....I have held on & mean to hold on to what Carlyle believed."