BIB_ID
314036
Accession number
MA 7795.63
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1892] Apr. 15.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 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
Discussing his recent appointment [as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University] and his concerns over the new duties that may be expected of him and his reluctance to take them on; saying "If I was young I would throw myself into the system and try to mend it. At 74 it would be absurd to try....I shall be rather relieved however if they decide in the negative, and I am left to myself and to my freedom [.]"
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