BIB_ID
313793
Accession number
MA 7795.18
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1884].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 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.
Recipient inferred from contents of fragment and from the inscription on the envelope; the first page(s) of the letter are missing and the final page ends abruptly and with no signature; Helen Gill Viljoen conjectures that this may be a postscript "since it is unsigned even though there is ample room for the usual complimentary conclusion."
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
Recipient inferred from contents of fragment and from the inscription on the envelope; the first page(s) of the letter are missing and the final page ends abruptly and with no signature; Helen Gill Viljoen conjectures that this may be a postscript "since it is unsigned even though there is ample room for the usual complimentary conclusion."
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
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
Describing Carlyle's intellect by saying "His eye was a perfect optical instrument which saw things & people as they were & not as they were supposed to be. When he said that Newman [John Henry Newman] had not the intellect of a rabbit, he meant that no intellect was worth the name which could look for truth in these days on the road back to Popery. An eye is not a good eye, however bright or limpid which sees crooked things as straight or square things as round. An intellect is not a good one which can find you 50 reasons for going wrong while you can only give one for going right."
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