MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Dulce Domum 206-7
My dear Mrs. Moberly,
Thank you for your kind, sweet, cheering note. It does seem to me truly that it is the burden of the flesh she is freed from, so entirely labour and weariness had the mere act of living been to her for months past; but with what sweet smiles!1 I am glad your dear Alice so thoroughly shared the peacefulness of the earlier watch, as well as that last trying day, which I trust will have done her no harm. I hope she and the Goddaughter may be with us on Friday. She, with George Yonge and (perhaps) Duke and Anne, are the only ones to be with us here now who were with us before.2 The others have ‘all passed into the world of light,’2 – the dear Kebles, Lord Seaton, Warden Barter, my cousins James and John. All Alice’s life I think she was the most loved and cheering young thing, out of the family, to both my father and mother; and how she helped us in 1854! . . . I have been really alone for some time, so the loneliness does not press so much as no doubt it will.