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Call Number:
MSS 56
Creator:
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
Title(s):
Edward Burne-Jones letter to John Ruskin
Date:
between 1885 and 1889?
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 5
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The 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:
"Ho blessed one, I have just read the last <title>Praeterita</title> - it has been in the house a week - and it is the first time in my life that this has happened that I haven't instantly read <title>Praeterita</title>, <title>Fors</title>, or new book of thine - and it means that I am very down this winter and sad and flat - and old and tired. But it picked me up brightly, and I wish I had lived with you always - and that we had been monks - Joan & Georgie & Margaret monks too - painting books and being always let off divine service because of our skill in said painting. My dear there has been nothing in my life so sweet to look back upon as that journey to Milan twenty-five years ago - that was the best of my days, and can't be again. I wish we could play together sometimes - all you say of little [Thomas Matthews] Rooke is true, and I'm glad that I had him to give you - he is really a son of mine - the faithfullest & best of sons. But of all sons Phil is best and every day comforts me more & more - and now I can really ask and take his advice about my work and help myself with his criticism[?] - [...] that happy for me. But I'm not well this winter, and wish I could see you sometimes most blessed of friends. Goodbye - this time a letter to answer - I write it because I want to talk to you, but I have nothing to say, and am such [...] your most loving Ned." Ruskin's Praeterita was published in parts between 1885 and 1889. Burne-Jones first visited Milan in 1859. A portion of this letter is reproduced in the introduction to The Complete Works of John Ruskin (Library Edition), ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), vol. 36, lv.
Additional Notes:
Printed letterhead: The Grange, West Kensington, W.
Physical Description:
1 sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Copying
Painters
Painting, British
Picture frames and framing
Pictures
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Praeterita
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Torcello (Italy)
Venice (Italy)
Associated People/Groups:
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
Burne-Jones, Philip, 1861-1926
Rooke, T. M. (Thomas Matthews), 1842-1942
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Finding Aid Title:
Edward Burne-Jones Letters to John Ruskin
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11067.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2781760
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2781760?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1