BIB_ID
313937
Accession number
MA 7795.38
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1886] Dec. 2.
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).
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
Discussing the continuing legal battles with Mary Carlyle over the publication of and profits from 'Reminiscences of Jane Welsh Carlyle' in 1881; defending his actions in the entire matter and saying "She wished the domestic side of her Uncles [sic] life to be suppressed, and she knew that i did not intend to suppress it.--Her motive now is passionate resentment[.]"
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