Housman, Laurence to Edith Nesbit, Dec. 9th [1902]

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2005.002.1.2.1.059

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Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Year inferred based on a penciled notation by the researcher.

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"My dear (E.N.'s special sign) I am most sorry to think of your loss and what it means. It recalls to me the quiet charm of that dear old lady as I saw her at your house some years ago. She left on me the impression then of a sweet and beautiful character, and I have always felt sad at hearing that her increasing infirmities did not make the last years of her old age happy ones..."