BIB_ID
285760
Accession number
MA 7363.6
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1887 Aug. 18.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 10.1 x 15.5 cm
Notes
Last page(s) of the letter are missing.
Part of a large collection of letters from Lucia Gray Swett Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Part of a large collection of letters from Lucia Gray Swett Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Discussing the local hunt for robbers, and describing how one robber was apprehended by a young man who is a "specemin of muscular christianity." Mentioning that a Mrs. Marshall from Detroit once met John Ruskin, and inquiring whether Severn remembers her. Describing an unexpected visit from four unnamed ladies, and how Swett made them a "great stew of canned oysters" though she "had now idea how to cook them."
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