BIB_ID
447675
Accession number
MA 23856.13
Creator
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894, sender.
Display Date
Boston (Mass.), 1885 January 2
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Addressed from "Winthrop House" in Boston.
Addressed: "Dear friend".
Addressed: "Dear friend".
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Summary
Reporting the death of her husband, Levi Thaxter; noting the suffering of her husband and the late Hamilton Wilde and that the suffering before death is worse than death itself; considering the world after the deaths of people they know and the nature of old age and death; relating the last time she saw Hamilton Gibbs Wilde, at which time they discussed the death of Thomas Gold Appleton; thanking for his and Eliza Field's Christmas card.
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