BIB_ID
405636
Accession number
MA 13736.10
Creator
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872.
Display Date
1867 July 9.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 14.2 x 8.9 cm
Notes
Written on black-edged mourning stationery; with printed letterhead, "13 Easton Place West. / S.W."
One of a group of 16 letters from Chorley to his future biographer, H.G. Hewlett (see MA 13736.1-16).
John Rutter Chorley died on June 29, 1867.
One of a group of 16 letters from Chorley to his future biographer, H.G. Hewlett (see MA 13736.1-16).
John Rutter Chorley died on June 29, 1867.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing to express his grief at the death of his brother [John Rutter Chorley], "the release leaves me without a relative that I care for. I am now virtually alone in the world. I hope that there are few persons so utterly desolate as I am".
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