Autograph : place not specified, to [Mrs. Hewitt], undated.
Record ID:
311652
Accession number:
MA 1940.95
Credit:
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.9 cm
Notes:
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Mrs. Hewitt. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Saying she amuses him "mightily, as far as anything can amuse me, with your notions of 'self-denial' and the way it is to be brought about;" relating it to the Roman fable of Marcus Curtius and to the last stanza of George Herbert's poem 'The Dialogue', from which he quotes the last stanza.
Provenance:
Gift of James P. Magill in 1958.
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