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La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906. Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Joan Severn, [1878].

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Joan Severn, [1878].

Thanking her for her letter particularly given how "worn-out" she is caring for Ruskin; saying "How strange & touching that he should think my poor child [Rose La Touche] still near him--perhaps she is--who can tell?"

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 18.2 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759510203 View

La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906. Fragment of an autograph letter : Harristown, Ireland, to John Ruskin, [1885] June 23.

Title: Fragment of an autograph letter : Harristown, Ireland, to John Ruskin, [1885] June 23.

Discussing, at length, cruelty in children; referencing his participation in the "Society to befriend Living Creatures."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758396713 View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letter signed : Brantwood, Coniston, to Mary Spence, 1872 Sept. 17.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Brantwood, Coniston, to Mary Spence, 1872 Sept. 17.

Thanking her for her letter; saying "My wits are all astray just now--the girl whom I've been in love with these ten years [Rose La Touche] has treated me dreadfully and driven me all but mad--(sent for me from Venice and petted me for three days and yet wouldn't marry me-) and I've forgotten everything;" saying he would be happy to look at the sketches; saying he received Granite's five pounds which he would like to return as he doesn't want help from friends for 'Fors' [Fors Clavigera].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752505169 View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Mary Spence, undated.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Mary Spence, undated.

Assuring her that he wants to see Granite's sketches and that she should sent them to Oxford directly; adding in a postscript, "Rosie's ghost has been haunting me."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752612784 View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letter signed with initials : Brantwood, Coniston, to Mary Spence, 1875 Sept. 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : Brantwood, Coniston, to Mary Spence, 1875 Sept. 20.

Saying he does not care about being an angel; saying that last week he saw his first windhover and he would rather be a "happily married windhover;" saying that "I've been able to think of little else. It was so lovely and the absolute stillness in the sky so much more perfect than I had believed;" saying that "a stranger who had seen Rose [La Touche] said of her, to one of my friends, 'She looked like what one would have imagined a young sister of Jesus Christ';" describing his memory of Rose's face at thirteen and as it aged; saying that "it was the extreme strength with extreme delicateness which gave that look the stranger felt;" discussing his three houses: Brantwood, his rooms at Corpus Christi College and his old nursery room at Herne Hill with the Severns.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752597244 View

La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906. Collection of autograph letters signed : primarily Harristown, Ireland, to Joan Severn, ca. 1861-1890's.

Title: Collection of autograph letters signed : primarily Harristown, Ireland, to Joan Severn, ca. 1861-1890's.

Collection comprises 70 letters from Maria La Touche, consisting of six letters to John Ruskin, one letter to Effie Gray (then Mrs. Ruskin), and 63 letters to Joan Severn. Letters are largely undated, but were written from about 1861 to the 1890's.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (70 items) unbound ; 28.2 cm. + 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727757879 View

La Touche, Maria, 1824-1906. Fragment of an autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to [Joan Severn], [before 1875].

Title: Fragment of an autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to [Joan Severn], [before 1875].

Describing a place they are visiting near Galway; inviting her to visit after they return home; saying that Rose and Ernest will arrive and be with them for several weeks.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 17.5 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758507418 View

La Touche, Rose, 1849-1875. Typescript of Helen Viljoen's notes of Rose La Touche's "Journal of Travels in France and Italy" of 1861 and her "Autobiography" of 1867 : [n.p., 1929].

Title: Typescript of Helen Viljoen's notes of Rose La Touche's "Journal of Travels in France and Italy" of 1861 and her "Autobiography" of 1867 : [n.p., 1929].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (33 p.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270874960 View

George MacDonald Collection, (1822-1946)

Title: George MacDonald Collection (1822-1946)

The George MacDonald Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, personal papers, and photographs relating to MacDonald's career and to the daily life of the MacDonald family.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 18; Other Storage Formats: 1 broadside; Linear Feet: 6.6

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mcdonald View

Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920. Fragment of an autograph letter : place not specified, to [John Ruskin], 1862 Dec. 16.

Title: Fragment of an autograph letter : place not specified, to [John Ruskin], 1862 Dec. 16.

Telling him how wonderful his visit was and how much easier it is for them to express their love for him in letters than to have told him while he was there; asking him to describe the house in which he is living; saying that they received two boxes from his father, one filled with almonds and the other with raisins; wondering if "your Rosie [La Touche] will come to town--I hope she will--but I don't suppose she'll ever care for me, if she does I shall love her."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20.9 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758017124 View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Thomas Richmond, [1868] Jan. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Thomas Richmond, [1868] Jan. 11.

Telling him he would love for him to visit tomorrow; saying that "surely it is to have a mean, not a noble opinion of me, to think that a seven years single love [Rose La Touche]--the best and the last possible of life, is to be broken into dust and strewed on the streams of time as on idol on Kidron."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm + envelope

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743237649 View

Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920. Autograph letter signed : London, to Joan Severn, 1898 June 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Joan Severn, 1898 June 25.

Thanking her and "our beloved St. C." for their notes; adding "I am lost in thanksgiving that Ned was ever born into the world."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/757518999 View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Richmond, [1866] Dec. 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Richmond, [1866] Dec. 10.

Telling him there is no fear that he will ever move to Ireland; saying that "if I win her [Rose La Touche] now she must come to me like Ruth--for her people are unforgiveable [sic] to me."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm + envelope

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743226502 View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Thomas Richmond, [1867 Mar. 25].

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Thomas Richmond, [1867 Mar. 25].

Saying he is "weak with pain and cannot but cry; saying he wished he could believe that her [Rose La Touche] parents were wrong in refusing him; adding that "bitterness does last forever;" asking if he can visit on Monday at 5.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ( 2 p.) ; 17.8 cm + envelope

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743228935 View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. John Ruskin papers, ca. 1837-1904.

Title: John Ruskin papers, ca. 1837-1904.

Collection consists of a significant body of letters covering most of Ruskin's creative years. Included are two draft manuscript lecture fragments on engraving and Greek art, printed lecture proofs with corrections and annotations on "The Pleasures of Faith" and the Pre-Raphaelites (1883-1884), and portrait photographs of Ruskin.

ArchivalResource: 61 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80934993 View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Richmond, [before 1871 Dec 6].

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Richmond, [before 1871 Dec 6].

Saying he "got on well at Cambridge, but it is merely talking to the air--cold air--too. People only want to hear you to be amused or to know 'what you have got to say' and they have not the least idea of ever attending to it;" saying that Joan is away, his mother is complaining and Connie has been ill; saying that Rosie has been in touch with Connie "evidently meaning to keep one gossamer thread of link."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 17.8 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746026090 View