BIB_ID
314051
Accession number
MA 7795.67
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1893?] Mar. 19.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 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 "Woodcot, / Kingsbridge, / South Devon."
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 "Woodcot, / Kingsbridge, / South Devon."
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
Telling her that Ruskin once told him that he taught his gardeners to "cultivate his Peach Trees for the blossom and not for the fruit;" saying he has followed that "doctrine" at Woodcot and is enclosing the "evidence...if it does not fall to pieces;" asking her to show Ruskin the "proof of what he has done [.]"
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