BIB_ID
314253
Accession number
MA 7799.16
Creator
Broughton, Rhoda, 1840-1920.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1919] Mar. 5.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters to 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 "Delverne, / Farnham, Surrey."
Year of writing inferred from contents of letter.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "Delverne, / Farnham, Surrey."
Year of writing inferred from contents of letter.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Thanking her for her last letter; saying she must be quite fatigued after the recent Ruskin Centenary [February 8, 1919]; saying how saddened she was by the death of Lady Ritchie and adding "There is nothing surprising in the death of a woman of 82; but there was so much [illegible] vitality about her that one could not connect the idea of Old Age, with all its uglinesses & disabilities with her...I feel sadly impoverished by her loss & shall miss her letters."
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