| dc.creator | Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-05T19:22:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-11-05T19:22:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1874-11-08 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/6178 | |
| dc.description | Autograph letter written by John Addington Symonds to Oscar Browning. Transcription included. | |
| dc.format | PDF | |
| dc.format.medium | 4 pages, double sheet, 17.8 x 11.2 cm | |
| dc.relation | William Luther Lewis Collection | |
| dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any photograph. | |
| dc.source | Was originally housed in a copy of "The life of Benvenuto Cellini" (Lewis NB 623 .C3 C44 1888), but is now located in a file cabinet of Lewis' authors, a folder labeled "Symonds, John Addington," D-434 | |
| dc.subject | Authors | |
| dc.subject | Letters | |
| dc.subject | Autographs | |
| dc.title | Letter from John Addington Symonds to Oscar Browning | |
| dc.type | Image | |
| dc.identifier.digitool | 97733 | en_US |
| dc.date.captured | 2012-04-05 | |
| dc.description.transcription | Embossed heading: Clifton Hill House
Clifton, Bristol
Nov: 8 1874
My dear Browning
I have only just read your article in the Fortnightly on the study of Archaeology in schools, which has interested me very much indeed, not only as recalling the matter of a conversation we had together at Eton when you explained to me your views on this subject. But also on account of the force & vividness with which you now urge [p. 2] them on the public.
What you said at Eton impressed me so much that I am going to try to do something for our School here (Clifton College) by way of putting up casts of bas-reliefs & statues in some of the higher class rooms -- provided I can persuade the headmaster to take my view.
[p.3] I should feel grateful to you if you would send me the titles of the best German “atlases of art-mythology” to which you allude. What I know about sculpture has been derived almost exclusively from looking at the Museums of Italy & Germany, & from works like Clarac, the Denkmäler, publications of Dilettante Societies, [p.4] Winckelmann, Museo Barracco, etc. I have grown up among books of this sort; & I want much now to methodize what I know. The works you allude to, & one of which you showed me, would give me just the help I want.
I have not forgotten your kind invitation. Perhaps you will let me take you at your word & come to you some day this winter.
I am very truly yrs. [sic]
J.A. Symonds.
Postscript, upper left corner of p. 1: I forgot to tell you how pleased I was by being mentioned -- & in such fine company! | |
