Letter from W. M. Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne, 20 Feb. 1870 includes: ff. 64-67 William Michael Rossetti, author and art critic: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to Algernon Charles Swinburne from William Michael Rossetti: [1870].
Letter from W. M. Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne, 15 March 1881 includes: ff. 68-69 William Michael Rossetti, author and art critic: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Letter to Algernon Charles Swinburne from William Michael Rossetti: 1881.
Letters (3) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one to his sister-in-law, Lucy Rossetti (ff. 70-71b), and two to his brother, William Michael (ff. 72-76), pleading with them not to publish William Michael's 'Democratic Sonnets' for fear of jeopardising his employment in the Excise Office; 12, 12 and 14...
'Munera Pulveris': six essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin; 1862-1863. Autograph draft of the footnote to Chapter VI, paragraph 155, written on both sides of a folio leaf of blue laid paper. No watermark. The text found in the draft is clearly closer to that of Fraser's Magazine for April...
Letter from John Ruskin to his valet, Frederick Crawley, informing him of his plans for returning to England from Italy; 9 Nov. 1882. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 189. includes: ff. 79, 80 Frederick Crawley: John Ruskin, author, artist and social reformer: Letter to Frederick Crawley fro...
Letter from John Ruskin to an unknown correspondent, concerning the ownership of the farm near Sheffield bought by Ruskin for the St. George's Guild; 29 May 1889. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, pp. 189-190]. First printed in the St. James's Gazette for 17 June 1889 and reprinted in E. T. Cook an...
Memorandum written by John Ruskin for the information of students intending to join his drawing class at the Working Men's College; n.d. Autograph draft. This draft was preserved by F. J. Furnivall. Printed in E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, xvi, 1905, p. 471, with a facs...
Letter from John Ruskin to the Rev. J. P. Faunthorpe, asking him to show Harry Buxton Forman and H. R. Newman a drawing by Newman, and a copy by Angelo Alessandri of a work by Carpaccio, which Ruskin had given to Whitelands College, Chelsea; circa 1885. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, pp. 191-192....
Letter, with envelope (f. 89), from John Ruskin to F. J. Furnivall, concerning the Working Men's College, and giving his (extremely unfavourable) opinion of Victor Hugo; 22 May 1855. Printed in E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, xxxvi, 1909, p. 211. Ashley Library Catalogue,...
Letters (6) from John Ruskin to F. J. Furnivall; [1851]-[1862]. Among the subjects covered are religion (28 March 1851), J. E. Millais (14 Nov. 1853), unintended offence given to C. Bellenden Ker at the Arundel Club (5 Dec. 1853), the reprinting as a tract On the Nature of Gothic Architecture (1...