BIB_ID
314920
Accession number
MA 7796.15
Creator
Winter, John Strange, 1856-1911.
Display Date
1888 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 32.8 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.
Ruskin's letter to the Daily Telegraph on January 17, 1888 said that Stannard was "the author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British soldier."
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "5 The Cedars / Putney Bridge / S.W."
Ruskin's letter to the Daily Telegraph on January 17, 1888 said that Stannard was "the author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British soldier."
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "5 The Cedars / Putney Bridge / S.W."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Thanking him for his "lovely letter in the D.T. [Daily Telegraph]. It is very so much better than the copy you sent me and I do hope I shall be able to live up to it and go on with Mignon. You know it is an honour that I never, never hoped for! Do you know that it was copied into the Pall Mall Gazette this evening?;" saying she has not yet seen Mrs. Oscar Wilde; adding that "I don't in the least expect you will make a friend of her. You may like her very much and for her sake I shall be very glad if you do, but I don't think there is much in her except that she is certainly a very good mother."
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