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British Library, Add MS 47891. ALS; 3p. (The MS also contains a copy in an unknown hand.) . Not previously published.
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What shall I say to you & your dear family under this affliction,
– the heaviest of all those which come to us in the regular course of nature?
I have now one friend the less in this world, – & one more in
that better one, – toward which I am every day advancing on my journey.
xxx not knowing how soon I may find myself at the journeys end.
In mourning for this excellent man you have the consolation of knowing that his
life was happy & that you contributed in no xxxx xxxxx little degree
to its happiness.
The post-mark & the seal of Dr Nicholls
Mrs
Southey joins with me in sorrowful remembrances to the two Miss
Brownes,rs Browne that among
the many who will sympathize with you in this deprivation there is not one who
entertained a higher regard for the good man whom we have lost, nor who will remember him with
more lasting respect than he who now in grief & sincerity subscribes himself
God bless & comfort you.