BIB_ID
285322
Accession number
MA 7362.52
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1889 Apr. 28.
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 grateful and happy Sorella."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Signed "Your grateful and happy Sorella."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Concerning the improving health of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin, and expressing great pleasure at a letter received from Ruskin. Reassuring Severn that "it was natural that [she] should be distressed at some words which [Ruskin] said about [her] when not himself."
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