Ruskin (John)
Ruskin (John)
Autograph letter signed (‘J. Ruskin’) to J.P. Burchett, reading “I am deeply sorry not to be able to visit you in this further distress, but what has fallen on you falls also on others – and I am compelled to help one friend after another till I am left at my last possible limit. Let me entreat you to give up this false direction of your energies. I knew it to be a false one when I assisted you before but was in hopes you would incur no further expenses in that direction. Let the worst happen and fall back simply on your position as the excellent master of Kennington”, two pages, integral blank, pencil annotations including some on the last leaf featuring biographical details of Ruskin and some speculations about Burchett’s identity; together with a signature by Ruskin clipped from the close of a letter (2)
the largest item 18 x 12cm
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Ruskin (John)
Autograph letter signed (‘J. Ruskin’) to J.P. Burchett, reading “I am deeply sorry not to be able to visit you in this further distress, but what has fallen on you falls also on others – and I am compelled to help one friend after another till I am left at my last possible limit. Let me entreat you to give up this false direction of your energies. I knew it to be a false one when I assisted you before but was in hopes you would incur no further expenses in that direction. Let the worst happen and fall back simply on your position as the excellent master of Kennington”, two pages, integral blank, pencil annotations including some on the last leaf featuring biographical details of Ruskin and some speculations about Burchett’s identity; together with a signature by Ruskin clipped from the close of a letter (2)
the largest item 18 x 12cm
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