BIB_ID
314925
Accession number
MA 7796.16
Creator
Stannard, Arthur, d. 1912.
Display Date
1888 Jan. 31.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (16 p.) ; 17.9 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
Saying he is writing this letter as his wife is unable to write; saying how much pleasure they got from their visit to him; relating "two recent circumstances which will show you that we were not wrong, or merely complimentary, in deprecating your idea that your influence today is less than we imagined;" relating the successful agreement with a theater producer to take on a new play based on his wife's book "Bootles' Baby;" saying that it never would have happened so quickly had it not been for Mr. Ruskin's letter to the Telegraph praising the writing of John Strange Winter; adding that his praise for her work also brought more public attention and more readers to her work.
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