BIB_ID
313967
Accession number
MA 7795.47
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1889] July 5.
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.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "The Molt, / Salcombe."
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 "The Molt, / 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 hope that after his recent struggles with mental illness that he will find himself stronger; saying he should not worry about "this Carlyle affair... I have always thought that you ought sometime or other to give the world your impressions of C[arlyle], for no one knew him better or appreciated him more justly...but there is no actual need for you to stir a hornets [sic] nest in a chivalrous defence of me.--The hornets will die at the end of the season without 'your stir';" inviting him to come for a visit.
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