BIB_ID
285642
Accession number
MA 7362.132
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
undated [1903].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Alexander's failing eyesight impeded her letter writing, and most of this letter is written in another hand, with Alexander penning only the opening paragraph and her signature.
Letter is undated but was probably written in February or March (Alexander notes that she can "feel in the air the approaching spring"), and was certainly written before a letter (MA 7362.133) dated 26 November 1903, wherein the anecdote concerning Mr. Spielmann is referenced.
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Signed "Sorella Francesca."
Letter is undated but was probably written in February or March (Alexander notes that she can "feel in the air the approaching spring"), and was certainly written before a letter (MA 7362.133) dated 26 November 1903, wherein the anecdote concerning Mr. Spielmann is referenced.
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Signed "Sorella Francesca."
Summary
Enclosing part of a letter from Mr. Spielmann that relates the finding at a training college of one of the "lost drawings" from Alexander's Roadside Songs of Tuscany, and notes that the "lady chief said she ... would restore it to the rightful owner." (See MA 7362.133-135) Also concerning the health of Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander.
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