BIB_ID
285576
Accession number
MA 7362.106
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1891 Mar. [12-] 14.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 10 x 15.7 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.
Written over two days (Alexander notes that she has "been two days writing this little note"); completed and dated on 14 March 1891.
Signed "Your affectionate Sorella Francesca."
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Written over two days (Alexander notes that she has "been two days writing this little note"); completed and dated on 14 March 1891.
Summary
Discussing flowers and Alexander's terrace garden, and concerning the health of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin, hoping that "the spring will come back to [England] soon, for the sake of [her] Fratello, before he begins to feel the worse for his confinement in the house." Also mentioning that Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander, "continues in her slow, steady improvement," and that the Alexanders are "trying to hear of some cool place not too far off" for their summer retreat, since their staying in Florence "is impossible; and a long journey is equally impossible."
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