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Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Relations with women.

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John Ruskin correspondence with Lucia and Francesca Alexander

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Call Number: MS 5086
Scope and Contents The 300 letters in this collection reflect the friendship that critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Mrs. Francis Alexander (nee Lucia Gray Swett, 1814-1916) and Francsca Alexander (1837-1917) maintained both professionally and personally from when they meet in 1882 until Ruskin’s death in 1900. Approximately half of the letters in this collection were previously published in John Ruskin’s Letters to Francesca and Memoirs of the Alexanders, (1931) by Lucia Gray...
Dates: 1882-1889