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think of you in your trouble, and mourn with you in your loss. 
" No one will do so more sincerely than I do. 
" Believe me, yours faithfully, 
" E. V. BOSCAWEN." 
" November 14, 1884. 
" Only just one short line to assure you that Lady R. and I 
feel most deeply for you in your sad loss. Please don't trouble 
answering this. Try and bear it as well as you can. 
" Ever truly yours, 
" ROSSMORE." 
" Rutland Cottage. 
" Archer, 
" I am much obliged to you for your letter, but I am 
sorry you should have thought it necessary to write it. I can 
assure you we all sympathise very much with you in the great 
sorrow that has come upon you, and I can only hope that you 
may find consolation, although you can hardly hope just yet 
to obtain it. It must be a very trying time to you now, 
returning home, but you will find plenty of occupation, which 
is the best way of bearing life under your severe trouble, 
"Yours truly, 
"March 12, 1885." " Cadogan. 
" Archer, 
" I must write you a few lines to say how much I 
sympathise with you in the great loss which you have sus- 
tained, and I hope you will bear up as well as possible under 
what must be to you a most crushing sorrow. 
" Believe me, yours truly, 
" Portland." 
Lord Hastings wrote for himself and Lady Hastings "to 
express very deep sympathy with you in the great loss you 
