BIB_ID
285907
Accession number
MA 7363.34
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1889 Nov. 16.
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.
Signed "your lovingest Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Signed "your lovingest Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Thanking Severn for the wonderful news about Ruskin's improved mental health, relating that the moment before her letter arrived she and Francesca had broken a wishbone. Francesca's was the longer half, and she wished for "good news of [her] Fratello" (Ruskin). Hoping for a "splendid sunrise, after such a long dark night." With a postscript from Francesca expressing thankfulness "for such a breaking away of the cloud," over Ruskin's health, noting that "even though it close again, it will not close forever."
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