Autograph letter signed : Kingsbridge, to Joan Severn, [1893?] Mar. 19.

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Autograph letter signed : Kingsbridge, to Joan Severn, [1893?] Mar. 19.

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Telling her that Ruskin once told him that he taught his gardeners to "cultivate his Peach Trees for the blossom and not for the fruit;" saying he has followed that "doctrine" at Woodcot and is enclosing the "evidence...if it does not fall to pieces;" asking her to show Ruskin the "proof of what he has done [.]"

1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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