BIB_ID
285177
Accession number
MA 7362.16
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1886 July 30.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.6 cm
Notes
Signed "Your most grateful and affectionate Sorella."
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Summary
Discussing Alexander's recent "despondancy" over her "Fratello," John Ruskin's, "attacks," and her newfound "comfort" at the news of his recovery and that Ruskin remembers Alexander (Severn heard Ruskin "repeating her name"). Also mentioning the cholera in Bassano, and the gondalier Pietro Mazzini, and requesting that Severn reply with suggestions of a gift Alexander might have sent to Ruskin from London, lamenting that she cannot send "mountain strawberries" or "sweetbriar roses" from Tuscany. A postscript responds briefly to Severn's "just arrived" letter of 27 July.
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