BIB_ID
285715
Accession number
MA 7362.165
Creator
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917.
Display Date
undated [1890].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 10 x 15.5 cm
Notes
Written on stationery with "Francesca" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Last page(s) of the letter are missing.
The Alexanders visited Airolo in the summer of 1890; see letters (MA 7362.76 - MA 7362.88) dated June - August 25, 1890 for more information.
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Last page(s) of the letter are missing.
The Alexanders visited Airolo in the summer of 1890; see letters (MA 7362.76 - MA 7362.88) dated June - August 25, 1890 for more information.
Part of a large collection of letters primarily from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Summary
Describing Airolo and the "first sense of strangeness, and perhaps a little home-sickness, which came over [Alexander] at first sight of this neat, prosperous, very un-Italian little town." Also describing in detail a religious procession that Alexander and her maid, Edwidge, took part in.
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