Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman, May 14, 1859

Charlotte Cushman's sister Susan Meriman Muspratt has died, and Chorley offers his condolences.

Credit

Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 

[2927] Dear friend. — I cannot allow an hour to pass without offering you my sincerest sympathy. & begging that you will further tender it, to any one who will care to receive in it merely a simple passing +++  alleviation. It is of no comfort to say, that loss after loss. have so +++ me to tidings like the one the post brought, that the +++ is, not that when [inserted] any die, but that any are left alive. — True friends

[2927 reverse] such make much of those they have left, — if only because when the +++ it [last three words inserted] grief is over, they can recall the old time & the old pleasures, with which no stranger can intermeddle. You have this comfort in yourself, to recollect the affectionate good offices of years — & to consider how much you were, essentially & vitally. to the dear sister taken away from you. But you will not think

[2928] of this just yet – I will not oppress you with any more words, because, I believe you know what I am thinking & feeling. – being always, very faithfully & sincerely y^s

Henry F. Chorley