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Autograph letter signed : Venice, to "Mia "other" amata," 1889 July 1.

BIB_ID
285885
Accession number
MA 7363.30
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1889 July 1.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.6 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.
Recipient is not identified, but "(To S. Anderson?)" is penciled in the upper left corner of p. 1 recto in Viljoen's hand.
Signed "La Tua Mammina."
Written on stationery with an image of a thatched cottage on the seashore.
Summary
Referencing the loss of Lily (not Lily Severn), asking whether she was the child of the recipient's sister's daughter or daughter-in-law, noting that the recipient appears "to be so equally fond of [her] relatives by birth and marriage, that [Swett is] sometimes unable to distinguish between them." Hoping that the recipient's own Lily (Lily Severn?) will not take the loss "too much to heart." Wondering whether the recipient was "created with such an unusually happy disposition because it was to be [her] destiny to live among tragedies." Noting that Marina has arrived in Venice.