BIB_ID
285783
Accession number
MA 7363.12
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1887 Sept. 2.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 10 x 15.4 cm
Notes
Page 5 is on the verso of Swett's recipe for Flour Ball, first mentioned in a letter (MA 7363.7) dated 19 August 1887.
Part of a large collection of letters from Lucia Gray Swett Alexander to Joan Severn. Items in this collection are described in individual records.
Signed "your affectionate Mammina."
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.
Signed "your affectionate Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Expressing relief that Swett's "Figilio," John Ruskin, is better, and discussing his continued work on Francesca Alexander's Christ's Folk in the Apennine, noting that Francesca will "add some few particulars" to the accounts of Angelina Puccio and Marchesa Enrichetta Nerli and send them to Severn, to be passed on to Ruskin as she sees fit.
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