BIB_ID
285542
Accession number
MA 7362.97
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1890 Dec. 14.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 10 x 15.8 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.
Signed "Your affectionate Sorella Francesca."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Signed "Your affectionate Sorella Francesca."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Concerning Christmas gifts sent by the Alexanders to Brantwood, and discussing the health of Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander and her "Fratello," John Ruskin. Expressing great pleasure at receiving a note from Ruskin "after so many sad months of silence," and noting that, while Alexander is "slower in giving way to hope," "Mammina feels as though the shadow had passed already." Noting that the health of Alexander's Mammina is "so well that she insists on sending [Alexander] away tonight to sleep in [her] own room, which [Alexander] rather dread[s], after more than four months [she] has never left her."
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