RUSKIN GIVES DETAILED ADVICE ON EDUCATION FOR BOYS
RUSKIN
(John, 1819-1900, Writer and Critic)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel Robertson
saying he had “made a stupid mistake in writing to you, thinking of another friend, who first named Mr Liefchild to me and who is interested in his obtaining the commission for the Shakespeare memorial at Melbourne. Indeed those are difficult questions which you are putting to yourself about your little son’s education - Have you Mrs Sherwood’s ‘Henry Milner’. It is a book which if children will at all take to it, is I think wholly good for them. It seems to me impossible to decide on general systems, or successions of teaching; the disposition of the child must decide everything as you see things affect him & turn out for him. This only I should think your parental care might ensure:- that he should be prevented from thinking much about himself or from contending with others; but should get into the early habit of learning however little, that little with absolute accuracy, and putting to some helpful use, as soon as he could - what he learned. If I had a son, I would make him use his arithmetic as soon as he has learned it – in keeping accounts for somebody; his chemistry in ascertaining the nature of substances – the commonest first. He should know good sugar from bad as well as a grocer; and be able to pronounce on flour and butter like baker or cook. His natural history should be learned in the fields, the poultry yard, the furshop and so on: and the one aim before him should be to make himself true and useful; not to be thought clever, nor take prizes, nor get on in the world. I think no system will do him much harm, if your influence is always clear & simple. No system on the other hand, will be of much use, if it alone be trusted to. I hardly ever write letters no; nor have I experience enough to make it in this case a matter of regret that I have got into this negative habit. I send this chiefly to with you a Happy New Year...”, 4re sides 8vo., no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
43424
£1500
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RUSKIN RECOMMENDS A SCULPTOR FOR A SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL IN MELBORNE
RUSKIN
(John, 1819-1900, Writer and Critic)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel Robertson
saying that he is “glad to hear of your safe arrival in England; and as sincerely wish that I could be of any use to you, but I have long given up all discussions upon matters of art – there is only one way to get a good thing done; go to Munro, Woolner, Marochetti, or any other good sculptor you like, and let him do the thing entirely in his own way. All bye[sic] opinions are useless: mine, just now especially so, for my head is full of quite different matters, (so far as it is full of anything). I have been put into a state of enduring and intense disgust by the way the Prussians and English have been behaving these three years back; (Prussia backing Austria and England standing behind her counter, whistling, with her hands in her pockets) - which has left me neither head, nor heart for any of my old work; in fact I was made thoroughly ill by the peace of Villafranca and am now only coming a little round again - but what I am doing - or should do, will be very different from any of my old business. I hear very good speaking of Mr H. S. Leifchild, 111 Stanhope Sq. Mornington Crest. I suspect he would be able both to advise and do, in this business of yours....”, 3 sides 8vo., no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
43423
£1750
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SIMPSON
(Sir James 1792-1868, General)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Culborne
saying that she could not “tire me with reading your kind notes! I am always glad to get them. Nor am I tired of Hardwick Shooting! tho’ certainly the weather has used me badly, and if next Monday seems a promising morning, I will be with your Party by Eleven o’clock. If you will kindly let me know, I will obey your Summons tomorrow, should it be agreeable to Mr Milner Gibson and yourself for me to dine with you. I returned home yesterday... a dreadful day - pouring all the way, and it was worse at night for my Ingham trip. Why did you not tell me of your disappointed Carriage Companion?...”, 3 sides 8vo., Harringar, 6th November no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43413
£125
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SPOONER
(William A., 1844-1930, Theologian & Educationalist, Originator of the ‘Spoonerism’)
Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear Earlwood”
saying that he is “sorry to say that Jack got a rather severe blow on the head at a riotous scene after the Bunf[?] Supper... This has interfered with his work for some daHs but I hope he is nearly right again now. The riot was a bad one & seems to have been generally participated in by the men who attended the Bunf Supper but not I think by Jack - The men got for a time quite out of hand and the men who were more or less in charge quite failed to keep order. I have seen Wickham Legg & find that his reading party is quite filled up. I have recommended Jack to try whether Mr Jeffreys of BNC could take him. he is, I believe, an excellent teacher. If this should fail I will try to hear of some other reading party which may be going...” with a postscript that he and seen “Jack again & he tells me that Mr Jeffreys is also full. I am going to talk to Fisher about a reading party...”, 3 sides 8vo., New College, Oxford headed paper, 6th March
Item Date:
1911
Stock No:
43401
£125
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STEPHENSON
(Robert Snr, 1788-1837, Civil Engineer, Elder brother of George Stephenson, the ‘Father of the Railways’)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Bagnall,
a Civil Engineer in Liverpool, saying he has received his letter and “was happy to hear that you were fast recovering, I am sorry to inform that I shall be under the necessity of being... to a late Hour at the Colliery tomorrow Night, it will be uncertain my getting to you on Sunday, Therefore you had better come straight on to the Wool Pack Pendleton. I have not seen Mr. Gill since we parted at Liverpool. I have seen his Agent & he says we have nothing to fear. I will endeavour to see Mr. G. tomorrow, it being Market Day I hope I shall find him in Manchester, when I shall be enabled to inform you what he has done in the matter. There was nothing of great importance in the Magazine...”, 1 side 8vo., with two thirds of the integral autograph address leaf, Pendleton Colliery, 7th February
Item Date:
1834
Stock No:
43415
£175
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