MS West Devon Area Record Office Acc No 308

My dear Mary
Gertrude’s long patience is over- It has been a sharp morning, ever since 9 o’clock she has been actually dying – Henry came and gave her the Holy Communion at 10 and then she went on whispering for his Prayers and hymns till 1 o’clock always holding my hand when consciousness failed her, and she went about a quarter past. It has been a very dear companionship of 24 years to me, an act of patience in her for 36 years, and how many will miss her little (and great) kind hopes. She was my memory- Frances is on her way down but too late to see her

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C M Yonge

She would have been 48 on the 24th