BIB_ID
285994
Accession number
MA 7363.58
Creator
Swett, Lucia Gray.
Display Date
1906 Mar. 30.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.2 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 loving Mammina."
The religion of Severn's daughter in law is also discussed in a letter (MA 7362.136) from Francesca Alexander to Severn dated 17 November 1904.
Signed "your loving Mammina."
The religion of Severn's daughter in law is also discussed in a letter (MA 7362.136) from Francesca Alexander to Severn dated 17 November 1904.
Summary
Thanking Severn for her letter, noting that she "cannot resist the temptation of writing to thank [her] for it though [Swett's] letter writing days are over." Condoling over the Roman Catholicism of Severn's daughter in law. Discussing mortality and referencing the death of Countess Rasponi, "who was such an admirer of [Severn's] D.P.'s (John Ruskin) writings," and whom Swett believes Severn met when she visited Florence. Noting that she and Francesca are "both well and comfortable, in spite of advanced and singularly advanced years."
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