BIB_ID
313968
Accession number
MA 7795.48
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1889] July 12.
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
Saying that he felt that the most recent number of Praeterita that she sent him was "the most beautiful of the series which has yet appeared--calm mellow charming, without a trace of excitement, with all sorts of lovely thoughts flitting about like the blue moths on a summer evening;" referring to the criticism Charles Eliot Norton has leveled against him with regard to the Carlyle [Jane Welsh Carlyle] letters, saying "I hardly understand what you tell me of C. Norton. If he thinks he has done wrong he ought to be sorry and to say so. If right he should explain and defend himself."
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