BIB_ID
313823
Accession number
MA 7795.22
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1886] Mar. 10.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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.
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
Regretting that "after writing about the Reformation I did not set to work with the 'other side' and do as I intended a life of Charles the 5th--The Carlyle bequest of 'letters' (Mrs. C[arlyle']s letters) which he gave me in 1871 put me off it and now it is too late;" discussing Protestantism and saying "All I see is that our Institutions &c are mortal as we are--They grow sick and old and they die and rot. Henry the Eighth did as well as he could. He kept the English from tearing themselves to pieces--The Reformation was a human and Rational thing compared with Emancipation & Progress of the Species--"
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