BIB_ID
285525
Accession number
MA 7362.89
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1890 Sept. 15.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 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 Francesca."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Signed "Your affectionate Sorella Francesca."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Concerning the health of Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander, and of her "Fratello," John Ruskin, noting that she is "not at all dismayed by the slowness of his recovery, which seems ... safer and surer than any sudden change." With a postscript noting that Alexander is sending "eighteen packages of the Shirley poppy seeds ... to many places," describing an "extraordinary melon ... green within, and yellow without, and as sweet as honey" (a honeydew), and enclosing Swiss and Italian stamps for Agnew.
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