MS 744
Collection of autograph letters signed from John Ruskin to Harriet A. Martin, with related correspondence.
Coniston ; Cork ; Orpington, 1884-1889.
36 letters.
Devised title.
Collection of 36 autograph letters, with accompanying envelopes. The majority are from John Ruskin to Harriet A. Martin, a Whitelands student who returned to the College as a governess between 1874 and 1884. She then became head of Cork High School for Girls, where most of these letters from Ruskin are addressed.
There are also 3 autograph letters signed from Martin to Ruskin, an autograph letter signed from Ruskin to Rose Graves and other letters to Martin from unidentified writers.
Dates from postmarks.
England Coniston.
B38796