Manuscripts

Scrapbook volume

Description: Original scrapbook volume with empty pages, except for three pages of pressed botanical specimens. The verso of the flyleaf has the ms. ink inscription: "Louise Virenda Blandy, in remembrance of April 12. 76, with much love, from Adelheid."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1874-1882.
Call number: mssHM 57251-57339
Creator: Ruskin, John (1819-1900)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Christie's, lot 196, June 23, 1993.
Associated people: Blandy, Louise. (1833-1898.)

[Note concerning Burton's stay in Brazil]

Rare Books

Kirkpatrick reference: 310 Description: p. 461-464 Periodical title: Anthropological review Issue No.: Vol. VI, no. 23 (October 1868) Imprint: London Notes: Title from ms. inscription on front flyleaf. Burton information on pages 462-463. Padded with blank leaves.

635664

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Omar Khayyam. Ruba'iyyāt-i Hakīm Khayyām. [Rubā̄ʻīyāt]

Rare Books

Kirkpatrick reference: 969 Description: [104] pages Imprint: [Tehran?] Notes: Also includes quatrains of Bābā Tāhir Hamadānī, 'Attār, and Irich Mīrzā (Insāf), a tarji' by Shams-i Tabrīzī, and one by Nāsir-i Khusrau. Ownership notes: Inscription on front flyleaf: Richard Burton's copy.

635664

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Scrapbook, brown leather, bound volume

Manuscripts

Inscribed: To Mother, with dearest love Averill, Sept. 1911. Photographs of bindings, autograph notes, clippings, and printed proofs; some items loose and laid into scrapbook.

mssCole

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Practical Geometry

Manuscripts

A.MS. 38 leaves 4to. A note of presentation and page headings in ornamental pen work, in another hand; with inscription on the flyleaf: Master Ruskin, Jan. 21, 1833.

HM 6103

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Erinnerungsblätter

Manuscripts

These "Remembrance Leaves" are signed autograph poems, notes, and religious sayings, some with watercolor illustrations; there is also a pressed flower and a braid of hair. Thirty-three leaves are in German and one leaf is in English; there are also unused blank leaves. The leaves are housed in a green leather, gold embossed box made to look like an autograph album; the corners have some damage and the front cover is loose.

mssHM 82874

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John Ruskin and Louise Blandy Papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains eighty-seven letters, primarily written from English art critic and author John Ruskin to his drawing and painting pupil Louise Blandy, discussing her studies and chronicling their relationship. There is one letter to Ruskin from Edward Burne-Jones and a letter from Joan Severn to Mrs. Blandy. Included also are a sketch by Blandy, two photographs, and Louise Blandy's album where the letters were originally kept. Preserved in the album are three page of pressed leaves, flowers, and mosses.

mssHM 57251-57339

Scrapbook volume

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