BIB_ID
313936
Accession number
MA 7795.37
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1886] Nov. 29.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 17.7 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).
This letter has no salutation; the recipient is inferred from the contents.
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).
This letter has no salutation; the recipient is inferred from the contents.
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
Discussing the distribution of the profits from the 'Reminiscences' and his intent to give Mary [Carlyle] "half of the profit of everything which I might publish--Carlyle said not a word to me about it, but I did tell him once that he need be under no anxiety about Mary. I would care for her as for a daughter of my own;" discussing, at length, the physical abuse that Mrs. C[arlyle] endured during her marriage and what she confided of this abuse to her close friend Geraldine [Jewsbury] who in turn confided it to him [Froude] as she was dying; saying that "The wear and tear of her [Jane Welsh Carlyle] life shattered her nervous system and brought on the strange illness of which she died."
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