BIB_ID
314933
Accession number
MA 7796.17
Creator
Winter, John Strange, 1856-1911.
Display Date
1888 Feb. 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 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.
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."
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
Apologizing for missing his birthday; telling him about being approached at a party by a man who "reproached me bitterly for not having managed to get that letter out of you for his paper;" saying that the play [Bootles' Baby] is going well and that the soldier's costumes are being made by good military tailors; saying that the day they signed the agreement with the producer, he told them that it was his [Ruskin's] letter that "clinched the bargain;" adding that the producer asked her if she might be able to have Ruskin attend the opening night and she told him she would not; saying she was only telling him all of this "because it is a pretty compliment to you, isn't it;" asking "Do you know it is a terrible responsibility being a friend of yours. I was always impressed with a desire to do my best--but now every thing I write brings a question with it: 'I wonder if he will like it."
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