Autograph letter signed : Denmark Hill, to Effie, [1848 Jan.] 9.

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Autograph letter signed : Denmark Hill, to Effie, [1848 Jan.] 9.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270914148

Published pp. 83-84, with editorial changes and two omissions: (1) he minds "a good deal" about his father's letter. Was it copied? If she saw it, she must have altogether stopped loving him. All that her parents did was right. They must have wanted her to marry W.[illiam?] T[asker?] "when they made you be as you used to be with him"; (2) sheet enclosed (1 p., 1 l.), with pencil scrawl of architectural details and comment that it has been recently discovered that the Parthenon even to its steps, is "all curves."

1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 cm. + with envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Millais, Euphemia Chalmers Gray, Lady, 1828-1897

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Euphemia Chalmers Gray, called Effie or Phemy, was born in Bowerswell House, Perth, and went to Avondale School, near Statford-on-Avon. She married the art critic John Ruskin on 10 April 1848; the marriage was annulled on 15 July 1854; she married John Everett Millais on 3 July 1855. She and Millais had eight children. From the description of Bowerswell papers, 1827-1944 1827-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270905842 ...

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

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