Heaton, Ellen, 1816–1894, Ellen Heaton letter to her family, 1858 October 20
- Call Number:
- MSS 46
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Heaton, Ellen, 1816–1894
- Title(s):
- Ellen Heaton letter to her family
- Date:
- 1858 October 20
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Miscellaneous
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder add.4
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, The material passed from Ellen Heaton to her nephew John Heaton, and subsequently to his brother Beresford Heaton, then to Katherine Ogilvy Heaton, and finally to Elizabeth Maud Sackville Robertson. Sold at auction, Christie, Manson & Woods, July 16, 1969 (see catalog entry no. 117).
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- "I wish these letters by John Ruskin, Esq. to be preserved, if they should any of them be though suitable to be published in a selection from his letters in some Life eventually written to commemorate him. I shall be glad that they should be used in that way. I hope my nieces and nephews may be interested in these letters, and preserve them."
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 page) : autograph letter signed ; 18 x 11 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtArt appreciationCollectors and collectingConservation and restorationPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPhotographyRhetoric
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
- Finding Aid Title:
- John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5850.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362766
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362766?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1