Item 18 - Letter from the Earl of Stradbroke to Dawson Turner

Henham Hall.—Thanks him for advising him of Mr Sparrow’s death.

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Transcript

Henham Hall
March 9th
1822

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to You for communicating the particulars of our poor Friends death. It was said at Yoxford on Tuesday {1} that Mr Sparrow was taken very ill that Morning, and I was fully prepared for the Event which followed. He was one the the few Men at a very advanced age, who kept up his Spirits to the last, and who retained his Intellect to be an agreeable Companion and always interesting in his Conversation.

Y[ou]r faithful and Obt H[umb]l[e] Ser {2}
Stradbroke

[Superscription:] Dawston Turner Esq | Yarmouth [At the head:] Wangford March ninth | 1822. [At the foot:] Stradbroke

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A folded sheet, with a smaller piece of paper containing the direction pasted to it. On the back of the latter is written in a different hand, ‘Countess Stradbroke’. The missing letters of words abbreviated by superior letters have been supplied in square brackets.

{1} 5 March. Robert Sparrow died on the 8th.

{2} The last two words are indistinct.