BIB_ID
313964
Accession number
MA 7795.46
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1889] June 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (12 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
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 from [The] "Molt", Froude's summer residence in Devon.
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 from [The] "Molt", Froude's summer residence in Devon.
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, at length and in detail, Norton [Charles Eliot Norton]'s "action" for perceived inaccuracies in the publication of the Carlyle letters; complaining that Norton has relied too much on the word of Mary C[arlyle]; saying that "I worked for eight years over these Papers and the rest of his letters, with a magnifying glass and if mistakes have come in they are not due to carelessness;" discussing the rumors of a relationship between Carlyle and Lady Harriet Baring [Ashburton]; adding "I must have been guilty of some Strange Sin in some part of my life that I should be punished with being mixed up with so odious a business."
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