BIB_ID
395418
Accession number
MA 8728.15
Creator
James, William, 1842-1910.
Display Date
1903 Dec. 31.
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation and on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2016.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.3 cm
Notes
The letter refers to the Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago on December 30, 1903 in which George Higginson lost his nine year old son, Roger, his sister, Jeanette Higginson who was visiting from Lenox, Massachusetts and their governess.
Written from "95 Irving Street / Cambridge."
Written from "95 Irving Street / Cambridge."
Summary
Being a letter of condolence on the loss of his son and his sister; saying "In the noon Herald today, I ran over the list of names for "Higginson", not supposing that you were implicated in the Iroquois Theatre horror, but merely to satisfy my mind, and I breathed freely when I found it not. But tonight's Transcript brings the fatal news. Your innocent darling! and the innocent Jenny! and the governess whose name even I do not know! Why are individuals pitched on for undergoing these awful experiences, which let the rest of us go so entirely free? Our reason stands aghast. Receive, dear George, both yourself and your wife, the tenderest sympathy and compassion of both of us. I can hardly bear to think of the images that are passing through your mind."
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