BIB_ID
285622
Accession number
MA 7362.125
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
[1900] Jan. 29.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 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 ever loving Sorella Francesca."
Signed "your ever loving Sorella Francesca."
Summary
Concerning the death of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin, noting that "his friendship has been one of the great blessings of [Alexander's] life," and expressing gladness that Severn "insisted on having him laid where he wished to be [the Consiton churchyard], though it is very natural that the English should wish to have him in Westminster Abbey." Intending to send a little wreath of wild olives soon, and in the fall "to send a little rose bush to plant near his grave [though] it is against the law," and hoping that Alexander and Severn now "will be nearer to each other than ever."
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