The Life of a Great Sportsman 



Richardson. The boys have both written to me quite upset by 

 the sad news. His kindness to our boys will never be for- 

 gotten ; he was the very pattern of a fine English gentleman 

 which appeals to young people, and gives them the ideal at the 

 moment they most want it." 



11 1 have just seen in the papers that your dear husband has 

 passed away. He and I were great friends ever since 1867. 

 He was one of the best, truest friends that I had, and indeed I 

 mourn his loss." 



" Please let an old friend of Oxford and Cambridge and 

 Eton and Harrow days send a line of (very true and sincere) 

 condolences." 



" It is difficult to realize that any one so full of life and 

 activity, and always so young as Mr. Richardson was, has been 

 taken away." 



" He seemed so full of health and spirits that we cannot 

 realize it at all. My husband and I have been so devoted to 

 him, and so of course was everybody who knew him." 



" I need not tell you with what regret I read of the death 

 of my dear old friend. He was a type of sportsman and gentle- 

 man that is rare to-day, and I know not where to find his 

 like." 



" It falls to the lot of very few to be so universally beloved 

 as Mr. Richardson was." 



i( Impossible to believe. Only a few months ago Mr. 

 Maunsell Richardson seemed so well and bright at Llandrindod. 

 I shall always remember how good and kind you both were 

 to me there." 



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