BIB_ID
417911
Accession number
MA 9894.5
Creator
Carpenter, William Boyd, 1841-1918.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1912 December 8.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Part of a small collection of four autograph letters signed from Bishop Carpenter to Mr. Morgan with an autograph letter signed from Mrs. Carpenter to Mr. Morgan and two carbon typescripts of letters to Bishop Carpenter from Mr. Morgan dated December 15, 1911 and January 8, 1912.
Written on the stationery of "The Grosvenor / Fifth Ave. & Tenth St. / New York."
Written on the stationery of "The Grosvenor / Fifth Ave. & Tenth St. / New York."
Summary
Sending him a small story; saying "What I send on the next page is not a Sunday story? If you like you can keep it till Monday - I have written it over leaf so that you need not read it till you wish. It was sent to me by my Bishop Suffragan;" adding, in a postscript, "Page to be turned when desired;" continuing on the following page with the story as follows: "The husband of a lady who had married late in life died. The solicitor bought the widow the welcome news that the deceased had left her all his property. She at once sent for a monument maker and ordered a sumptuous tomb of rare marble, instructing him to put an inscription ending with the words - REST IN PEACE. Three weeks later the solicitor again called with the startling news that a later will had been found & that the widow had only been left an annuity. She once more sent for the mason, and asked - Have you completed the monument? - Yes Madam - And the inscription? she asked Yes Madam - Then, said she, just add, TILL I COME."
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