BIB_ID
313993
Accession number
MA 7795.53
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1890] Jan. 27.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.3 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 "5, Onslow Gardens, / S.W."
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 "5, Onslow Gardens, / S.W."
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
Apologizing for not coming to visit but explaining he is in poor health and that he hopes to come at the end of February; adding "I do not quite realize how far your Cousin [Ruskin] realizes the existence of other people or cares to remember or be remembered by them--Give him if he will understand it my warmest love..."
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