BIB_ID
313983
Accession number
MA 7795.50
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
1889 Aug. 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Date of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
In a penciled note with this fragment Helen Gill Viljoen indicates that she believes this was copied by Ruskin; the complete text of this letter is printed in the June 1964 issue of 'Notes and Queries, p. 233-235 and in Helen Gill Viljoen's "The Froude-Ruskin Friendship", p. 94-97.
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 publication of the complete text of this letter is within a letter to the editor of Notes and Queries, June 1964, from Peter O'Connor, Liverpool, indicating that he owns the original.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston, Lancashire."
In a penciled note with this fragment Helen Gill Viljoen indicates that she believes this was copied by Ruskin; the complete text of this letter is printed in the June 1964 issue of 'Notes and Queries, p. 233-235 and in Helen Gill Viljoen's "The Froude-Ruskin Friendship", p. 94-97.
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 publication of the complete text of this letter is within a letter to the editor of Notes and Queries, June 1964, from Peter O'Connor, Liverpool, indicating that he owns the original.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston, Lancashire."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
This fragment discusses his father's Church in Devon that will be demolished and a new one built in its place; wishing they would leave the Church as his father built it.
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