Found 9 collections related to Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

Several letters, autographs, and a check signed by English artist, philanthropist, and critic John Ruskin. Letters are brief, but address artistic, intellectual, and social matters. Named recipients include Edward Coleridge, and John Hall (Nyack, New York). less

John Ruskin, English art critic and social critic. · To William Allingham, poet : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Sep 1864 : (MISC 1412a) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Denmark Hill, S.E. (embossed stationery) : begins, "I have been at Verona and Venice -- my letters all unanswered for months ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Whit Monday" [no year] : (MISC 1412b) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire (embossed stationery) : begins, "I am so [heavily?] obliged to you for sending me Fraser ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Nov [no year] : (MISC 1412c) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Denmark Hill, S.E. (embossed stationery) : begins, "I am -- alas -- on the very eve of leaving for Oxford ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Jun 1868 : (MISC 1412d) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Could you lunch with me about ¹/₂ past one -- tomorrow?"; with the postmarked envelope. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Wednesday afternoon" [watermark = 1857] : (MISC 1412e) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I am very sorry I was out to day ..." -- All letters to Allingham mounted within the album of Fifty-nine Autograph Letters to William Allingham. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Allingham.". less

This is a synthetic collection covering the years 1854 to 1892 with some material still undated. Strengths of the collection include nearly 30 poems or poem fragments and Whitman's autograph revision of the "Analysis of Poems" by Dr. R. Bucke. This essay was written for Bucke's authorized biography (Walt Whitman, 1883) and Whitman's extensive revisions were incorporated before publication. The correspondence includes two longer runs, one to William O' Connor and the other to his wife Ellen O'Connor. The O'Connors were active in a number of social causes, as well as devoted advocates of Whitman and his writing. William O'Connor, author of The Good Gray Poet (1866), was one of Whitman's closest friends until an argument in 1873 caused a break in their friendship. Others who figure prominently in the Berg Collection's Whitman materials include John Burroughs (1837-1921), nature writer, literary critic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford, young friends of Whitman's; and Richard Maurice Bucke (1837-1902), Whitman's authorized biographer, friend and literary executor. In addition to writing Walt Whitman (1883) and Walt Whitman, Man and Poet (1897), Bucke co-edited with Horace Traubel and Thomas Harned The Complete Writings (1902). less