BIB_ID
396094
Accession number
MA 13363
Creator
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900.
Display Date
1888 March 23.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Possibly addressed to his friend and regular correspondent, Mrs. Hayne, the widow of Southern American poet Paul Hamilton Hayne.
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning his sorrow at the loss of his wife and his admiration for the fortitude she herself has displayed following the loss of her husband ("...the way in which you have borne your sorrow puts to shame my petulance. ... You have stood under it nobly, & I must try to be like you, But the deepest of all consolations I have now as you have. I do not reject it, I strive & pray; but my faith is not always steadfast.").
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