BIB_ID
313843
Accession number
MA 7795.26
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1886] Apr. 10.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 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 from "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 from "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
Informing him of the death of his sister-in-law and the need to continue to delay his visit to Brantwood in order to tidy up her affairs; saying that "My only wish is to hold my peace henceforth & for ever more. Carlyle, you & in a less degree Tennyson have really affected for good the English and Anglican mind. No one else in our time (for Wordsworth & Byron & Scott belong to another generation) has done anything which does not deserve & will not get the oblivion which befits it."
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