BIB_ID
285766
Accession number
MA 7363.7
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1887 Aug. 19.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 10.1 x 15.5 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Lucia Gray Swett Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
See MA 7363.12 for Swett's Flour Ball recipe.
Signed "your devoted Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
See MA 7363.12 for Swett's Flour Ball recipe.
Signed "your devoted Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Mentioning a letter from Miss Beever in England, and mentioning Marina, Sig. Lanchetta and Sig. Boni. Describing evening walks, and hoping that Severn's family is happy now that Swett's "Figlio," John Ruskin, is well. Noting that Francesca is "making a flour ball for an ailing baby, as she says its mother would never do it right," and mentioning that "some day" Swett will send Severn the recipe.
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