BIB_ID
313191
Accession number
MA 7792.74
Creator
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920.
Display Date
1862 Oct. 3.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.0 cm
Notes
Part of a collection consisting of 64 letters from Sir Edward and Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones primarily to John Ruskin, Joan Severn, and their circle, dated ca. 1864 to 1918. Collection also contains copies of seven letters of Lady Burne-Jones to Ruskin from 1862, and three related envelopes. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient inferred from contents of letter.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Recipient inferred from contents of letter.
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
Expressing her delight at receiving his letter and hearing he is well; saying she and Ned [Edward Burne-Jones] visited his house and how much she enjoyed seeing where he lived in London; saying they "learnt, to our grief, that poor Gabriel [Rossetti] destroyed the whole precious bookful [of poems] this last miserable Spring, and so unless he ever re-writes them (which wouldn't be very like him) they are lost, except such few as already have seen the world in print or have planted themselves in the memory of those who love him and them. Swinburne knows more than anyone else and he was good enough the other evening to tell me some--which, together with those I had already, you shall have;" reporting on Ned's [Edward Burne-Jones] work and his health; relating news of their son's first birthday.
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