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Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 (author, artist and social reformer)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1819 - 1900

Biography

John Ruskin (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence from John Ruskin, 1854-9 June 1886 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9225/1/43-54
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Comprises correspondence and papers of Mary Hope Allen, as well as correspondence of her grandfather Robin Allen (1820-98), Secretary of Trinity House and a poet and critic, and of her father, Sir Ernest King Allen (1864-1937), Assistant Public Trustee 1915-23. Robin Allen's correspondents include 19th century politicians, artists, poets and critics such as W.E. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Lord Leighton, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, Arnold Toynbee and Mrs. Humphry Ward. There is a collection of...
Dates: 1854-9 June 1886 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Reg Beatty: calligraphic exercise, Undated (late twentieth-century?)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10496/2
Scope and Contents

Calligraphic exercise in pencil and grey wash, attributed to Reg Beatty, on a phrase by [John] Ruskin ('What can it be, that subtle treachery that lurks in tea-cakes, and is wholly absent in the rude honesty of toast?')

Dates: Undated (late twentieth-century?)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).