BIB_ID
81079
Accession number
MA 9249
Creator
Carlyle, Mary Carlyle Aitken, 1848-1895.
Display Date
[1871] "30th".
Credit line
Purchased, 1964.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 14.0 x 9.0 cm
Notes
This letter was originally accessioned as MA 2333 as part of a collection of thirteen autograph letters signed from various persons to Joan Agnew Severn.
Written from 5 Cheyne Row.
Joan Ruskin Agnew, cousin of John Ruskin, married Arthur Severn in April 1871.
Written from 5 Cheyne Row.
Joan Ruskin Agnew, cousin of John Ruskin, married Arthur Severn in April 1871.
Summary
Wishing her happiness in her forthcoming marriage; saying "I do indeed heartily wish all manner of good for you in your marriage. I know you have chosen a good true husband else your friends who love you wouldn't approve of him; and I think if one lives beside any body one loves who is really good and noble and tries to do rightly one can not be other than happy - in the highest sense of the word. And I do hope and believe dear Miss Agnew you will be happy! We shall be very happy to see the young Lady, who has been snowed in, with you tonight. And I hope for my Uncle's sake she will be as bewitching as Miss Armstrong - now that there is no hope of you any more!"
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