BIB_ID
285315
Accession number
MA 7362.50
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1889 Apr. 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 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 affectionate Sorella."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Signed "Your affectionate Sorella."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Concerning the health of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin: worring about his "present excitability," but hoping that recovery approaches soon. Noting that Ruskin's unkind words to Severn "are no more his than if he were talking in his sleep," and likening Ruskin's condition to "a troubled dream, growing more restless as the time draws near for awaking." Also discussing Severn's youngest and "very entertaining" child, and hoping that Severn "will never send him to school to be made like other people [because] the less such a child as that was educated, the better!"
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