The poet Frances Ridley Havergal and her sister Maria met von Cramm in Champéry, in the south-western Swiss canton of Valais, in late summer 1876. This lead to von Cramm illustrating collections of Havergal's poems between 1879 and 1880. The meeting is described in the Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal:
Champéry friendship was with the Baroness Helga von Cramm. We were staying in the same pension; and a few words the first time we met resulted in many pleasant entwinings of work. I give my sister's reference to the fact, in a letter to Mr. W_ _. One of my Champéry gains was the Baroness Helga v. Cramm; such an artiste, every picture is a poem, such a soul in all she paints; her two specialities are Alpine scenery with the weirdest effects of snow and clouds, and the marvellous beauty of the tiny Alpine flowers. Well now, of course, she wants to paint for Jesus somehow! So I suggested that we might do something together, and we would first ask Him to give me half-a-dozen nice little Easter verses, and then that He would hold her hand, and make her do some exquisite flowers. so the verses all came tumbling in that evening!
Their meeting also resulted in a sonnet by Havergal:
In The autobiography of Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, the "steep path to Eisenfluh, from whence Helga painted her marvellous Moonlight on the Jungfrau..." appears. In the same volume a diary entry reads:
Personal life
Havergal died about nine days later from peritonitis at home in Caswell Bay, Swansea, 3 June 1879.
Gallery
Books containing illustrations by von Cramm
Life Mosaic: The Ministry of song and Under the Surface, by Frances Ridley Havergal, 12 chromo-lithographed plates of Alpine scenery & b/w illustrations throughout, Nisbet & Co, 21 Berners Street, London, 1879.
Edie's Letter; or, Talks with the little folks, by the Rev. George Everard , William Hunt & Co., London, 1879, with engravings from designs by the Baroness Helga von Cramm.
Sunbeams from the Alpine Heights, 12 chromo-lithographs of Alpine flowers, printed & published by E. Kaufman, Lahr Baden, c1880. 'Illuminated by the Baroness Helga von Cramm'.
Swiss Letters and Alpine Poems, Frances Ridley Havergal, J. Miriam Crane, 12 chromo-lithographs, James Nisbet & Co., 21 Berners Street, London, 1882.
Life Chords Comprising Zenith, Loyal Responses, and Other Poems, by Frances Ridley Havergal, 12 chromo-lithographed plates, Nisbet & Co. Ltd., London, 1880 & 1885.
Life Echoes. ... With a few selected pieces by W. H. Havergal.... With... illustrations by the Baroness H. Von Cramm. , London; Edinburgh : Nisbet & Co., 1883.
Alpine cards, published by C. Caswell, 135, Broad-street, Birmingham, c. 1880.
Die ewigen Berg, by :de:Anna Thekla von Weling|Hans Tharau , Gotha, F. A. Perthes, 1882, six illustrations by Helga v. Cramm. , pps.236.
