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Revisions by: Nancy Kaiser, August 2020

This collection was processed with support, in part, from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Art critics--England--History--19th century.
• Authors, English--19th century.
• Hilliard, Laurence.
• Leete, Jessie.
• Plants--Nomenclature.
• Rural schools--England--History--19th century.
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Fors clavigera.
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Frondes Agrestes.
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Val D'Arno.
• Severn, Joan, 1846-1924.
• Short, Frank, Sir, 1857-1945.
• Social reformers--England--History--19th century.
• Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.
• Sowerby, James. English botany.
• Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
• Women--Education--England--History--19th century.

• James Saxon Childers Collection (#3384);
• Thomas Griffith Papers (#11021);
• R. C. Nockold Papers (#11019);
• George Richmond Papers (#11023);
• James Smetham Papers (#11016);
• George Richardson Papers (#11034);
• William Whitaker Papers (#3433).

John Ruskin, English are critic and writer, set out to establish superiority of modern landscape painters over the Old Masters in his Modern Painters (1843). He lectured on architecture, painting, and political economy of art and issued treatises on drawing and perspective.

Ruskin was the first Slade professor of fine arts at Oxford (1869-1879, 1883-1884). He attempted to inspire radical change in attitudes toward art, religion, and economics. Ruskin died from influenza on 20 January 1900.

The collection includes letters, writings, and other items by or relating to John Ruskin. Included are eleven letters, 1882-1884, from John Ruskin to a Mrs. Tulloch about classes at a rural school for girls, appropriate books for the girls, and other matters; six letters, 1883 and undated, from Ruskin's cousin, Joan Ruskin Severn, about John Ruskin and other matters, about seventy letters, 1880-1887, from Ruskin to Jessie Leete about the progress of his work, various aspects of his personal life, his theories of labor, and other matters; eleven letters, 1881, from Ruskin's secretary, Laurence Hilliard, to Jessie Leete, concerning Ruskin's illness of that year; six letters, 1885-1887, from Ruskin to Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) about etchings of paintings by J. M. W. Turner; scattered other letters from Ruskin; drafts of parts of "Val D'Arno" and "Fors Clavigera" by Ruskin and notes and other items relating to those works; corrected page proofs, with Ruskin's annotations, of "Frondes Agrestes"; Ruskin's annotated copy of James Sowerby's "English Botany" (1863-1870) containing Ruskin's comments on etymolgies of plant names and classifications of plants; two signed photographs of Ruskin; and other items.

• P-11022/1-3