BIB_ID
285532
Accession number
MA 7362.91
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1890 Sept. [24-] 26.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.8 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.
Probably written over three days (Alexander notes that she "began this note two days ago" (i.e. 24 September)); completed and dated on 26 September 1890.
Signed "Your affectionate Sorella Francesca."
Probably written over three days (Alexander notes that she "began this note two days ago" (i.e. 24 September)); completed and dated on 26 September 1890.
Signed "Your affectionate Sorella Francesca."
Summary
Concerning the slowly improving health of Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander, and the good health of her "Fratello," John Ruskin, to whom Alexander sent a letter "the other day." Discussing education: expressing gladness that "this is to be Lily's last term at school," and hoping that "Violet and Baby will never have to go to school;" and discussing the state of schools: Alexander "hardly think[s the] english schools are as bad as ... italian ones; and even these are better than the swiss, [where] children are obliged to go to school, contrary to their parent's wishes and their own."
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