BIB_ID
285546
Accession number
MA 7362.98
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1890 Christmas Day.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
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 "Yours with love Sorella Francesca."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt. Envelope with postmarks (first marked Firenze), addressed to Mrs. Arthur Severn, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, England, Inghilterra.
Signed "Yours with love Sorella Francesca."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt. Envelope with postmarks (first marked Firenze), addressed to Mrs. Arthur Severn, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, England, Inghilterra.
Summary
Giving a brief account of a sudden, severe illness suffered by Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander, and describing the surgery that ensued to remove a "large watery tumor" that otherwise "would certainly kill her in five or six months." Noting that she was treated by Dr. Coldstream and Dr. Lawson Tait, who "said there were three chances to one that she would not survive the operation," but that she is now "safe" and "under the influence of morphine." Apologizing for not writing her usual Christmas letter to her "Fratello," John Ruskin.
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