BIB_ID
285848
Accession number
MA 7363.15
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1888 Oct. 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 10.1 x 15.5 cm + envelope
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.
Rezzonico may be a villa in Bassano.
Signed "your affectionate and most grateful Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt. Envelope with postmarks (marked Bassano) addressed to Mrs. Arthur Severn, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, Inghilterra; back flap has "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Rezzonico may be a villa in Bassano.
Signed "your affectionate and most grateful Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt. Envelope with postmarks (marked Bassano) addressed to Mrs. Arthur Severn, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, Inghilterra; back flap has "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Alluding to Ruskin's recent visit to Bassano. Asking Severn to not let her Di Pa (Ruskin) know, but that Swett is "very sorry about his visit here, all the more that he had expressed his intention of remaining with [the Alexanders] all the time he spent in Italy," noting that "his change of feeling was great and sudden after he received some letters," and acknowledging that they "shall probably never meet again."
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