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Autograph letter signed : London, to Joan Severn, 1889 June 7.

BIB_ID
314695
Accession number
MA 7799.96
Creator
Severn, Charles, 19th cent.
Display Date
1889 June 7.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.0 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 from "361. Liverpool Road / N."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Thanking her for the most recent edition of "Praeterita;" saying how much he enjoyed Ruskin's opinion of Mozart; saying he also discovered in reading it that she "sings Scotch Songs divinely;" hoping that when she comes to London she will sing for him.