BIB_ID
285883
Accession number
MA 7363.28
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1889 June 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.5 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.
Postscript marked "Private -- Please Burn."
Signed "your devoted Mammina."
Written on stationery with an image of two men fishing. Envelope with postmarks (marked Venezia) addressed to Mrs. Arthur Severn, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, Inghilterra; upper left corner of recto also has image of two men fishing..
Postscript marked "Private -- Please Burn."
Signed "your devoted Mammina."
Written on stationery with an image of two men fishing. Envelope with postmarks (marked Venezia) addressed to Mrs. Arthur Severn, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, Inghilterra; upper left corner of recto also has image of two men fishing..
Summary
Informing Severn that the Talbots left Venice because "he married his second wife only six months after the death of his first, who was her sister." Discussing Francesca's eyesight, and describing their life in Venice. Noting that their upstairs neighbor has three dogs, and that Swett "thought of buying them with a view to giving them a permanent bath in the canal." With a postscript on an enclosure discussing "that strange affair of K.O.," Kathleen Olander, hoping that she gives Severn and Ruskin no "farther annoyance," but noting that "she may marry him yet in spite of [Severn] and even in spite of [Ruskin]."
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