Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Arthur Severn, 1878 May 18 .

BIB_ID
315700
Accession number
MA 7798.163
Creator
Simon, Jane O'Meara, 1816-1901.
Display Date
1878 May 18 .
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 13.3 cm
Notes
Alfred Hunt, Margaret Hunt, John Simon and William Cowper-Temple organized a subscription for the purchase of J. M. W. Turner's watercolour "Pass of the Splügen" for John Ruskin in 1878. This tribute was in celebration of his recovery from a long period of mental illness.
J. M. W. Turner's "Pass of the Splügen" is now in a private collection.
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).
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Sending a list of subscribers with their addresses; discussing how to acknowledge the gifts and announce that the subscription is closed.