BIB_ID
285984
Accession number
MA 7363.51
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1892 Dec. 1.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.3 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.
Signed "your most affectionate Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Ciao" elaborately embossed in gilt. Envelope with postmarks addressed to Mrs. Arthur Severn, 28, Herne Hill, London, S.E., Inghilterra; back flap has "Ciao" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Signed "your most affectionate Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Ciao" elaborately embossed in gilt. Envelope with postmarks addressed to Mrs. Arthur Severn, 28, Herne Hill, London, S.E., Inghilterra; back flap has "Ciao" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Discussing Severn's health. Noting that when the Alexanders had their possessions brought to Italy from America in 1883, the shipment included a pair of elk horns, a pair of moose horns, and a collection of weapons from the South Sea Islands, and that these were given to Severn's "D.P.," John Ruskin, who later loaned them to "some society connected with art." Enclosing a formal letter tot hat effect, noting that if Severn should outlive Ruskin, she "might like to have them, [as Swett] suppose[s] his possessions would become [Severn's]."
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