BIB_ID
314490
Accession number
MA 7799.52
Creator
Farrar, Reginald, 1880-1920.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.1 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).
This letter is written to "My Only and One."
Written on stationery embossed "Ingleborough, / Lancaster."
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
This letter is written to "My Only and One."
Written on stationery embossed "Ingleborough, / Lancaster."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying how unhappy he is that "the time of roses [is] cruelly postponed" as his grandmother has died and he must go to her funeral; asking if he could call next Friday "as long as it be sometime soon and sweet;" adding "My tears overwhelm me: I swim in them: my hope of seeing you soon is my one life buoy."
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