BIB_ID
285282
Accession number
MA 7362.41
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1889 Jan. 18.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 15.5 x 10.1 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 grateful and affectionate Sorella."
Signed "Your grateful and affectionate Sorella."
Summary
Expressing thankfulness that the "Good Lord" has restored Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin to health, and that Ruskin did not suffer "in this attack, as in the others." Also expressing hopfulness that Ruskin's "period of convalesence may be free from that dreadful despondency which has come after ever other illness since [Alexander] has known him."
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