BIB_ID
314047
Accession number
MA 7795.65
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1892] Oct. 1.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.4 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 "Cherwell Edge, / Oxford."
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 "Cherwell Edge, / Oxford."
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 he has heard that Ruskin is "calm & remarkably well, considering all that he has gone through" and that he hopes this is true; saying he has returned to Oxford to begin the term but comments that "It is piteous to me to see so many frank bright young men ruined by Examinations and Athletics, things good enough in moderation but entirely fatal, when made the two special businesses of Education. I say nothing and do what I can in my own small department. If I remonstrated I should be a Voice in the Wilderness[.]"
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