BIB_ID
195489
Accession number
MA 13026
Creator
Alma-Tadema, Laurence, 1865-1940.
Display Date
1938 Jun. 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 27 cm
Notes
Addressed from the "Hotel des Thermes Sextius / Aix-en-Provence".
Taped onto a sheet of notebook paper with a typed note at foot below the letter.
Taped onto a sheet of notebook paper with a typed note at foot below the letter.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Commiserating with her over her recent trouble with her eyes and describing the great difficulty she herself has been having with her leg; stating that she has read the latest numbers of Lawton's book in the Sunday Times ("I was much touched by the reference to my father & to myself"); provides an account of the death of Ignace Paderewski's son Alfred in 1901, and notes that Paderewski was present as a mourner at her father's funeral in 1912.
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