BIB_ID
285621
Accession number
MA 7362.124
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1900 Jan. 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
For more on Ida, see Alexander's The Story of Ida, first published in 1883.
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 friend and Sorella Francesca."
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 friend and Sorella Francesca."
Summary
Concerning the death of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin, noting that Severn's telegram arrived late in the night of 20 January, and thanking her for "thinking of [the Alexanders] in the first hour of so great a sorrow." Noting that "the change in [Severn's] life will be very sad [especially] because he had become so dependent upon [her]," and also noting that Ruskin "died on the anniversary of ... Ida's death."
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