Autograph Letter Signed ' Mabel Morrison', wife of Alfred Gatty, of Fonthill House to Sir Stephen Herbert Gatty, offering commiserations on the break up of Gatty's marriage.

12mo, 8 pp. On two bifoliums. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged and spotted paper. She writes with compassion but without tact: 'how great your loneliness must be - Dear Alice was so wrapt up in you, so devoted to you that the withdrawal of her love & sympathy must be very hard to bear - Till people lose one whose devotion to you & whose satisfaction in you made the whole world different, till they lose such a one, they can never realise the <?> the emptiness - the bitter years <?> one has to bear - it makes one feel such hopeless solitude Ah! Me!' The second half of the letter gives family news ('the girls have just returned from Switzerland'). She concludes by urging Gatty to visit him and his family, either at Fonthill or in Scotland.