Author:
Mabel Morrison [Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) of Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire; Sir Stephen Herbert Gatty (1849-1922), Chief Justice of Gibraltar; William Beckford]
Publication details:
17 September [no year]. On letterhead of Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire.
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!
