BIB_ID
285920
Accession number
MA 7363.37
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1889 Nov. 27.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 10 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 most affectionate Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Signed "Your most affectionate Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Lucia" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Mentioning Severn's visit to her "princely friends," noting that it "must have done [her] good." Enclosing some monograms from Leitzia for Lily's collection. Mentioning that it is Thanksgiving day (which is "such a happy day [in America] for rich and poor, but it is a day no one is poor ... even the prisoners are supplied abundantly with roast turkey and plum pudding"), and that the Alexanders had "three ladies of very "reduced gentility" to dine." Discussing education and inquiring after Severn's daughter Lily.
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