BIB_ID
313952
Accession number
MA 7795.44
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1889] May 31.
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 final pages and signature of this letter are missing, however, they are printed in Helen Gill Viljoen's book "The Froude-Ruskin Friendship--as represented through letters" on p. 78-79.
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 final pages and signature of this letter are missing, however, they are printed in Helen Gill Viljoen's book "The Froude-Ruskin Friendship--as represented through letters" on p. 78-79.
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
Acknowledging the criticism he received from Ruskin in his last letter; saying "I will take a licking from you (as the schoolboys say) if you wish to administer such a thing as I would not, nor ever would, from any one but you and Carlyle--Do as you think proper. If I am too old to mend I am not too old to see the truth when it is put before me;" adding "Watch any man through his life and you find that the flowers and fruit which he throws off year after year, are organically as much the same as the flowers and fruit of an apple tree. Born a crab one remains a crab, though the crab may recover a little from an originally misshaped growth and may become a better specimen of its own kind;" hoping that Ruskin and Severn [Arthur] will visit him in the summer.
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