BIB_ID
285643
Accession number
MA 7362.134
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
1903 Dec. 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Alexander's failing eyesight impeded her letter writing, and this letter is written entirely "by the hand of a friend," with Alexander penning only her signature.
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Signed "From your ever loving, never forgetting, Sorella Francesca."
The "old letters" probably refer to the correspondence from Alexander to Ruskin.
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Signed "From your ever loving, never forgetting, Sorella Francesca."
The "old letters" probably refer to the correspondence from Alexander to Ruskin.
Summary
Expressing great thanks for the package of "old letters" sent by Severn to the Alexanders, describing how "the Mammina's (Lucia Gray Swett Alexander) eyes filled with tears" on their receipt. Thanking Severn for writing Mr. Spielmann about Alexander's drawing (see MA 7362.132-133, 135), and thinking of the Severn family "all together on Xmas day in that dear Brantwood, which [she] know[s] so well, though [she has] never seen it & probably never shall see it."
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