Letters to Arthur Severn

Archive Unit

Scope and Content

Letters to and papers of (Joseph) Arthur (Palliser) Severn (1842-1931), artist and wife of Joan Severn. The material comprises:

  • (a) numbers. 1-12, letters to Arthur Severn from Alice, Countess of Bective (numbers 1-2, 1888), C.W. Dowdeswell (number 3, 1878) F.S. Ellis (number 4, 1878), W.H. Grimston (number 1879), George William Kitchin, Dean of Winchester (number 6, 1892), Frederick Larkin (number 7, 1915), G. Perkin, (number 8, 1878), George Richmond, RA (number 9, 1878), Charles Severn (number 10, 1891), Joan Severn (number 11, 1893), P.F. Willert (number 12, 1898);
  • (b) number 13, a Memoir, mostly concerning Ruskin (66 folios), and number 14, Anecdotes (49 folios).
 The Memoir contains expanded versions of incidents related in the Anecdotes.

Acquisition Information

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