Whether the editor undertook more pruning and reworking than the published preface implies. It has not been possible to establish whether the typescript represents a preliminary version (despite the statement in the published preface that Leon completed only a first draft), or Despite the suggestion that the work was published essentially as Derrick Leon left it, there are considerableĭifferences between the typescript and the published text. Cockerell's pencil notes and markings on the typescript may relate to this attempt to check the quotations. Intention of revising it for the press - “In view of this, it was considered preferable that the material which he had collected with so much labour should be presented in the form in which it had been left, subject to a check of quotations and L which states that the author's death occurred shortly after he had completed the first draft of his manuscript, and before he could carry out his The book was published posthumously with a preface by G. Greville MacDonald and Charles Goodspeed, the book is dedicated.ĭerrick Leon died in Nov. All appear to be in the same hand, identified by Virginia Surtees (in respect of theĪnnotations on p.727 and 900) as that of Sir Sydney Cockerell, to whom, with Dr. There are brief pencil notes relating to the sources of quotations on p.38, 79, 727, 900, 934, 966, 11, and pencil markings on some other pages. Carbon typescript (except p.144, top copy), double-spaced. Ruskin: the Great Victorian (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949). Summary catalogue of Additional ManuscriptsĬatalogue Drafts and notes for Ruskin: the Great Victorian Virginia Surtees, and presented by her to Durham University Library in 1984. 817/29), in which he quotes copiously from his parents' correspondence, including the letters now at Yale. 817/1-51 also includes Greville MacDonald's own account of the Ruskin/Rose La Letters from Ruskin to the MacDonalds which were also part of the gift were subsequently passed on to Yale University as promised by Leon (Add. They include original correspondence of Ruskin'sįriends the novelist George MacDonald and his wife, in whom Rose confided this correspondence was part of a larger batch of material concerning the Ruskin/Rose La Touche relationship which was given to Leon by the MacDonalds' son Greville original The items which are present are particularly concerned with Ruskin's love for Rose La Touche. The collection as it now exists is clearly only a part of Leon's working material for the biography. Ruskin: the Great Victorian (posthumously published London, 1949) together with a collection of letters and other material (1871-1944) used by Leon as sources for the biography. This group of 51 items consists of an incomplete draft of Derrick Leon's book Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections Title: Additional Manuscripts 817: John Ruskin biographical papers
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