Autograph letter signed : Florence, to "Dear Joanie" [Joan Severn], 1891 Mar. 17.

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Autograph letter signed : Florence, to "Dear Joanie" [Joan Severn], 1891 Mar. 17.

Concerning the health of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin, noting that they "have great reason to be thankful, even if he should never be any better," and discussing flowers and Alexander's terrace garden. Also discussing education, especially that of Severn's eight year old son, Herbert, who has written music, which Alexander tired "on the piano" and notes that "there are some quite beautiful chords in it." Musing that Herbert might "be the one destined to carry on [her] Fratello's work in the world," and "wishing ... that he could alwasy stay with [Severn] and not be sent to school [as she] would keep him so much more above the level of the world." With a postscript regarding the burning of Harristown, noting that Alexander's "Mammina (Lucia Gray Swett Alexander) says that she supposes it principally touches the son (Peroy La Touche?), now the only child."

1 item (4 p.) ; 10 x 15.7 cm.

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