Autograph letter signed : Lugano, to "Dear Joanie" [Joan Severn], 1891 Aug. 1.

Discussing the "last wish that [Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander] seems to have left in this world:" to have Alexander's Roadside Songs of Tuscany "put together and published ... just as it left [her] hand." Asking whether "it would be possible, ... who has the right to authorise it, [and] ... whether [her] Fratello [John Ruskin, is] so well now that his consent could be asked or given," and noting that the Alexanders "have no right nor property in those pages." Asking Severn to tell Alexander when she may write to Ruskin "without doing harm."