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Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer

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Surname: Ruskin
Forenames: John
Gender: Male
Date: 1819-1900
Biography: ODNB link for Ruskin, John (1819-1900), author artist and social reformer
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P161612 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P24930 )
Online related resources Artists' Paper Register link for John Ruskin Bibliography of British and Irish History link for John Ruskin
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1814-1900: corresp, literary MSS and family papers
Ruskin Library
NRA 11475
2
corresp and papers (over 1600 items)
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
3
1828-88: corresp and papers
Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal
NRA 40430 Ruskin
4
drawings, collected letters (3 vols) incl letters (168) to Bernard Quaritch
Brantwood
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
5
misc papers
Ruskin Museum
NRA 40430 Ruskin
6
papers rel to the Guild of St George
Ruskin Gallery Collection of the Guild of St George
See HMC Ruskin corresp file 17/5/1985
7
corresp and literary papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
8
misc MSS
Strathclyde University Archives
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
9
1840-1900: letters to Henry Acland and family; papers rel to
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 22893
10
1859-89: letters (c335) to George Allen
Columbia University Libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library
See NUC MS 62-239
11
1872-88: letters (250 leaves) to George Allen
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
12
1875-88: letters (62) to Grace Allen
London University: Senate House Library
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
13
1872-88: letters (45) to James R Anderson
Special Collections, The Mitchell Library
NRA 16655 Baillie's L
14
letters to the Armitt family
Armitt Library and Museum
NRA 27909
15
1875-80: letters to Katharine Bradley
British Library, Manuscript Collections
16
1846-82: letters (214 leaves) to John and Rawdon Brown
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
17
1850-81: corresp (1 vol) with Rawdon Brown
British Library, Manuscript Collections
18
c1844: letters to Walter Lucas Brown
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
19
1861-87: letters (120) to Edward and Georgina Burne-Jones
Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
20
letters (38) from Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The Morgan Library
See NUC MS 84-2135
21
1875-85: letters to Henrietta Carey
Nottinghamshire Archives
See Nottingham Public L Archives Dept Annual Report 1961-62
22
1855-79: letters to Thomas Carlyle
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
23
letters (21) to Robert Chester
Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
24
c1850-56: (copies) letters (11) to Miss Corlass
British Library, Manuscript Collections
25
1879-86: letters to Ada Dundas and her parents
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
26
1882-87: letters (46: copies), mainly to Fletcher
Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)
NRA 10731 Hull Uni Misc
27
1875-85: corresp with H Fletcher and HD Rawnsley
Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal
See County Archivist's report, Oct-Dec 1991
28
1857-74: letters (10) to James and George Forbes
St Andrews University Library
NRA 13132
29
c1843-1860: letters (18) to Miss Fortescue and Charles Newton
Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
30
letters (11) to Jeanette Foster
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
31
letters (38) from James Froud
The Morgan Library
See NUC MS 84-2151
32
1878-87: letters to Mary Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
33
1865-85: letters (22) to Frederic Harrison
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
34
1849-86: letters (14) to Augusta Hayes
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
See Bulletin vol 60, 1977, no 11, p7
35
1855-63: (copies) letters (89) to Miss Heaton
British Library, Manuscript Collections
36
c1840: letters (20) to Lord Houghton
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
See HMC corresp file 19.2.87
37
1856-86: letters (24) to Alfred William Hunt
Cornell University Libraries
NRA 43100
38
1858-80: letters (48) to Margaret Raine Hunt
Cornell University Libraries
NRA 43100
39
1877-80: letters (64) to Marcus Huish
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
40
1857-1889: (copies) letters (38) to W H Hunt
British Library, Manuscript Collections
41
1865: letters to Adelaide Ironside
State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library
See Journal of Society of Archivists vol 9 no 4 Oct 1988 p174
42
c1854-60: (copies) letters (38) to JH and JN Le Keux
British Library, Manuscript Collections
43
1880-87: (copy) letters to Jessie Leete
British Library, Manuscript Collections
44
1882-89: letters (47) to Robert Leslie (copies)
National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
45
1850-1871: (copies) letters (65) to Thomas Lupton
British Library, Manuscript Collections
46
1869-73: corresp with Frederick Maxse
West Sussex Record Office
NRA 10619 Maxse
47
1880-83: letters (15) mainly to John F Moss rel to Ruskin museum
Sheffield City Archives
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
48
1887: letters (13) to Elizabeth Murray
British Library, Manuscript Collections
49
letters (8) to Sir Charles Newton and (10) to Miss Fortescue
Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections
See Mynors, Catalogue of MSS
50
1854-88: letters (463) mainly to Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard University: Houghton Library
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
51
1862-74: letters to Evelyn and Charlotte Noyes
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
See Accessions to Repositories 1983
52
1864-76: letters (64) to Alice C Owen
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
53
letters to Mark Pattison
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
54
1860-76: letters (39) to George Richardson
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
55
1883-85: letters (43) to William Roffe
Harvard University: Houghton Library
See NUC MS 81-631
56
letters (13) to Walter Severn
Harvard University: Houghton Library
See reports xxx-xxxv, 1970-75
57
1859-74: letters (21) to Smith, Elder & Co
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
58
1848-66: letters to Sir Walter and Lady Trevelyan
Newcastle University: Special Collections
NRA 12238 Trevelyan
59
1858-86: corresp with George Frederic Watts
Watts Gallery
NRA 8123 Watts
60
1864-84: letters (32) to Elizabeth White; literary MSS
McGill University Archives
See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories 1975
61
letters to A Wickham
Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre
NRA 6481 Hammersmith misc

See Accessions to Repositories 1969
62
1858-59: corresp (incl some copies) with Sir JG Wilkinson
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 42710
63
1845-90: corresp (730 items) and literary MSS
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
See NUC MS 71-1909
64
letters (47) and literary MSS (6)
Columbia University Libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library
See NUC MS 65-1191
65
letters and literary MSS (50 items)
Princeton University Library
See NUC MS 60-1390
66
1833-1888: letters (797) and literary MSS (22 items)
Huntington Library
See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
67
c1850-79: letters (23)
University of Arizona Library, Special Collections
See NUC MS 62-493
68
1855-86: letters (15)
Duke University: William R Perkins Library
See Guide, 1980, p483
69
1873-88: letters
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
70
1882-1889: corresp (300) with Lucia and Francesca Alexander
Boston Public Library
NRA 11046 Boston Library
71
letters (47)
Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
72
1863-89: letters (65) received
Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)
NRA 10731 Hull Uni Misc
73
letters (photocopies)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
74
literary papers
Rosenbach Museum and Library
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
75
literary papers
New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
76
literary papers
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
77
1864-85: letters
University of Roehampton: Whitelands College Archives
NRA 7070 Whitelands Coll
78
c1875: letters from Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823-1896) Poet
Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
See Annual Return 2003
79
1873-74: (copy) text for lectures 6-10 of Val d'Arno, Fors Clavigera and other notes
British Library, Manuscript Collections
80
1874-1882: corresp (87) with Louise Blandy
Huntington Library
81
1884-1885: commonplace book containing 102 verses and extracts from the New Testament in Greek
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
See Annual Return 2018
82
1892: proofs of Kelmscott Press edition of The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin
De Montfort University Archives
83
1869-1883: correspondence with Duncan Dallas (fl1864-1903), printer
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 2022
84
late 19th cent: papers incl material rel to Peter Bayne (1830-1896), author
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 2022
85
1851-1872: letters to Edmund Oldfield (1817-1902), Assistant Keeper of Antiquities, British Museum, and Treasurer of the Arundel Society
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 2022