BIB_ID
313930
Accession number
MA 7795.36
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1886] Nov. 24.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 15.2 and 17.6 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
Asking for Ruskin's help with Norton [Charles Eliot Norton] and Mary Carlyle in the continuing controversy surrounding the publication in 1881 of 'Reminiscences of Jane Welsh Carlyle"; saying "With a distressing responsibility thrown on me by Carlyle himself I acted in the only way which seemed to me to be the right one--I may have been mistaken--but it was impossible that I could have had any other motive;" adding in a postscript, "I am probably going to the West Indies for the winter to recover my spirits and temper."
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