BIB_ID
285203
Accession number
MA 7362.24
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1887 July 16.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.5 x 10 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Signed "Your affectionate and most grateful Sorella."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Signed "Your affectionate and most grateful Sorella."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Discussing the mental health of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin, who is described as "so feeble, and down-hearted, and with such sad fancies," including a "strange starvation fancy." Also concerning the publication of Alexander's Roadside Songs of Tuscany, with Alexander declaring that she has no rights to the book, but that she had given it to her Fratello and that "he only has the right to say what may or may not be done with it." With a postscript from "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander, asking Severn to read or give the current letter to Ruskin.
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