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	Ruskin	NRA 11475
2	corresp and papers (over 1600 items)	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	GB 133 Eng Mss 1161-1166, 1193, 1245-1267, 1304
3	1828-88: corresp and papers	Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal	WDSo/106	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	Con RM	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	MSS Eng lett c 32-52; Eng misc c 269-70; d 652-53
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	MSS Acland	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	MS Eng lett d 4
12	1875-88: letters (62) to Grace Allen	London University: Senate House Library	SL V 22 SL V 23	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
13	1872-88: letters (45) to James R Anderson	Special Collections, The Mitchell Library	60436	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	Add MS 46867
16	1846-82: letters (214 leaves) to John and Rawdon Brown	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett d 1
17	1850-81: corresp (1 vol) with Rawdon Brown	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 36304
18	c1844: letters to Walter Lucas Brown	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS ADD 117
19	1861-87: letters (120) to Edward and Georgina Burne-Jones	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum	Burne-Jones Papers	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	MS.555-6
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	RP 298
25	1879-86: letters to Ada Dundas and her parents	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett d 138
26	1882-87: letters (46: copies), mainly to Fletcher	Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)	DP/8	NRA 10731 Hull Uni Misc
27	1875-85: corresp with H Fletcher and HD Rawnsley	Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal	WDX/1039	See County Archivist's report, Oct-Dec 1991
28	1857-74: letters (10) to James and George Forbes	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate	msdep7	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	Add MS 46246
33	1865-85: letters (22) to Frederic Harrison	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	Harrison 1/101	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	RP 382
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	4607 2/27a-27x	NRA 43100
38	1858-80: letters (48) to Margaret Raine Hunt	Cornell University Libraries	4607 2/28a-28ss	NRA 43100
39	1877-80: letters (64) to Marcus Huish	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng misc c 130
40	1857-1889: (copies) letters (38) to W H Hunt	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 565
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	RP 488
43	1880-87: (copy) letters to Jessie Leete	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1622
44	1882-89: letters (47) to Robert Leslie (copies)	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	LBK/78	NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
45	1850-1871: (copies) letters (65) to Thomas Lupton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 552
46	1869-73: corresp with Frederick Maxse	West Sussex Record Office	MAXSE	NRA 10619 Maxse
47	1880-83: letters (15) mainly to John F Moss rel to Ruskin museum	Sheffield City Archives	MD 6092	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
48	1887: letters (13) to Elizabeth Murray	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 37021
49	letters (8) to Sir Charles Newton and (10) to Miss Fortescue	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections	MS 414	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	MS Eng lett e 85
53	letters to Mark Pattison	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Pattison 57
54	1860-76: letters (39) to George Richardson	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng misc e 182
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	MS Eng lett d 168
58	1848-66: letters to Sir Walter and Lady Trevelyan	Newcastle University: Special Collections	WCT	NRA 12238 Trevelyan
59	1858-86: corresp with George Frederic Watts	Watts Gallery	GFW	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	DD/178	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	MS Wilkinson dep d 135	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	mssHM 6097-6129; mssHM 7586-7622; mssHM 12881; mssHM 18908; mssHM 21655-21664; mssHM 24179; mssHM 25801-25861; mssHM 26320; mssHM 26353; mssHM 30341-30369; mssHM 30653-30658; mssHM 30883-30885; mssHM 31088-31098; and mssHM 32002-32014	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	MS Eng lett d 5
70	1882-1889: corresp (300) with Lucia and Francesca Alexander	Boston Public Library	MS 5086	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)	DP/7	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	Acc 1828	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	RP 1723
80	1874-1882: corresp (87) with Louise Blandy	Huntington Library	mssHM 57251-57339
81	1884-1885: commonplace book containing 102 verses and extracts from the New Testament in Greek	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	English MS 1561	See Annual Return 2018
82	1892: proofs of Kelmscott Press edition of The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin	De Montfort University Archives	RP
83	1869-1883: correspondence with Duncan Dallas (fl1864-1903), printer	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89518	See Annual Return 2022
84	late 19th cent: papers incl material rel to Peter Bayne (1830-1896), author	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89537	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	Add MS 89590	See Annual Return 2022