BIB_ID
313946
Accession number
MA 7795.42
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1889] May 16.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 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.
The succeeding page(s) and signature are missing.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written from "The Molt", Froude's summer residence in Salcombe.
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
The succeeding page(s) and signature are missing.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written from "The Molt", Froude's summer residence in Salcombe.
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
Expressing his joy at hearing from him and knowing he is getting better; talking of his own frailties and saying "I am anxious that I shall be fit for nothing any more--Providence arranges however that the sense of uselessness shall be less unbearable than one expected by slackening the strings, so that they will not vibrate."
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