BIB_ID
313896
Accession number
MA 7795.30
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1886] June 9.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.0 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 mourning paper from "Onslow Gardens."
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 mourning paper from "Onslow Gardens."
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
Saying he is going to Devonshire to work "out of all this crowd and noise;" that he would like to visit Brantwood in the autumn; describing time as an illusion, "a condition by which we perceive things, but in itself nothing--that all that was still is and all that will be is, &c &c--. We know nothing about it--I only know that bits of our past life hang as holy relics about our necks, relics that burn & scorch and yet are the most precious of all our possessions."
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