BIB_ID
285991
Accession number
MA 7363.56
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1893 Mar. 28.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 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.
Postscript is marked "Strictly Confidential."
Signed "Ever your most affectionate Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Ciao" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Postscript is marked "Strictly Confidential."
Signed "Ever your most affectionate Mammina."
Written on stationery with "Ciao" elaborately embossed in gilt.
Summary
Thanking Severn for photographs of her family and home, and discussing them. Mentioning that Mrs. Garraway dined with the Alexanders, noting that while they were visiting "[Severn's] Queen drove by the windows on her way from the station." Enclosing Severn's letter for Mr. Newman (first discussed in a letter (MA 7363.54) dated 16 February 1893). With a postscript discussing a "most unfortunate copy of one of F[rancesca]'s drawings" made by Mr. Collingwood's protégé, asking Severn to request Mr. Collingwood to destroy the copies and negatives, as Swett "should be sorry anything should exist giving such a false idea of her work." Expressing disbelief that Mr. Collingwood "could have sent such a failure to [Swett]," noting "it is really painful."
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