Letters to Anna Blunden

Reference
- GB 133 Eng MS 1253
Dates of Creation
- [1855]-1858
Name of Creator
- Name of Author: Unknown
Physical Description
- 200 x 160 mm 1 volume (38 folios)

Scope and Content

Letters from John Ruskin to Anna Blunden, 1855-1862 [sic], typescript copies of 27 letters written by Ruskin to Miss Anna Blunden (1829-1915).

Acquisition Information

Purchased by the John Rylands Library at auction at Christie's on 22 April 1959 (Lot 186).

Bibliography

An account of her life is given in Virginia Surtees, Sublime and Instructive (1972), pp. 79 , together with the text of these letters.

Archive Record|Table of contents

John Ruskin PapersRUS

Letters to Fanny TalbotEng MS 1161

Letters to Blanche AtkinsonEng MS 1162

Letters to Quartus TalbotEng MS 1163

Letters and Papers regarding the Guild of St GeorgeEng MS 1164

Alexander letters to Fanny TalbotEng MS 1165

Miscellaneous Letters to Fanny TalbotEng MS 1166

Letters to A.C. and L. StrodeEng MS 1193

Ruskin Letters to Peter BayneEng MS 1245

Letters to George Richardson and othersEng MS 1246

Letters to Anna OldhamEng MS 1247

Letters to Constance OldhamEng MS 1248

Letters to R.N. Wornum, Henry Jowett and othersEng MS 1249

Letters to W.H. HarrisonEng MS 1250

Letters to F.S. Ellis and Davis WhiteEng MS 1251

Letters to Arthur and Joan SevernEng MS 1252

Letters to Anna BlundenEng MS 1253

Miscellaneous Letters IEng MS 1254

Miscellaneous Holograph FragmentsEng MS 1255

Miscellaneous Papers relating to Business AffairsEng MS 1256

Letters to Margaret RuskinEng MS 1257

Miscellaneous Letters IIEng MS 1258

Sir Walter Scott Letters and PapersEng MS 1259

Severn-Simon LettersEng MS 1260

Severn-La Touche LettersEng MS 1261

Severn-Cowper-Temple LettersEng MS 1262

Miscellaneous Letters to Joan SevernEng MS 1263

Letters to Arthur SevernEng MS 1264

Joseph Severn LettersEng MS 1265

Letters to Ernest ChesneauEng MS 1266

Letters to William James StillmanEng MS 1267

Letters to Sarah CorlassEng MS 1304