BIB_ID
314484
Accession number
MA 7799.51
Creator
Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903.
Display Date
[1889-1900] Oct. 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.1 cm
Notes
Probable year of writing inferred from contents of letter; Dean Farrar's daughter, Sibil, was married in 1889 and Ruskin died on January 20, 1900.
Written on stationery embossed "17, Dean's yard, / Westminster. S.W."
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 "17, Dean's yard, / Westminster. S.W."
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).
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Extending his sympathy "in the heavy trial of nursing Mr. Ruskin. He has been to me a most honored & most valued teacher for many a long year & I should indeed be ungrateful if I did not always think of him with affectionate reverence;" saying that his daughter and son-in-law would like to call on her at Brantwood.
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