Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Ruskin, [Venice], Oxford and Lancashire, to various people [manuscript], ca. 1845-1879.

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Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Ruskin, [Venice], Oxford and Lancashire, to various people [manuscript], ca. 1845-1879.

Correspondents: "Doctor" [John] Brown, [Rawdon Lubbock?] Brown and [Jean] Ingelow. The letter to [R.L.?] Brown mentions Shakespeare and Dante; the one to Miss Ingelow discusses a recent production of Othello, in which Salvini played Othello.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7090734

Folger Shakespeare Library

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