BIB_ID
286009
Accession number
MA 7363.62
Creator
Severn, Joan, 1846-1924.
Display Date
1886 Nov. 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Marked "Please burn - for yourself."
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 ever grateful loving Figlia."
Written on stationery with "Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire" embossed in red. Envelope with postmarks (marked Ambleside) addressed to Mrs. Alexander, 21 Piazza Santa Maria Novello, Florence, Italy, and with docket on verso noting "most private [but with] permission to keep from Mrs. Severn."
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 ever grateful loving Figlia."
Written on stationery with "Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire" embossed in red. Envelope with postmarks (marked Ambleside) addressed to Mrs. Alexander, 21 Piazza Santa Maria Novello, Florence, Italy, and with docket on verso noting "most private [but with] permission to keep from Mrs. Severn."
Summary
Thanking Mammina for writing openly on the Millais subject, noting that Ruskin and his mother often talked openly about it with Severn. Noting that she is sure Ruskin's mother was "most indulgent and kind, in all ways to her son's wife," though neither she nor her husband approved of the marriage, and that Ruskin later saw that it had been a marriage of convenience and that Effie had "made love to him to save her Father from disgrace" and was already engaged. Describing in detail the beginning and ending of Ruskin's marriage. With a postscript noting that Ruskin's health has improved.
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