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Published by 18 March ; on letterhead of 47 Portland Place W. London, 1903
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3pp, 12mo. Bifolium, folded once. In good condition. 29 lines of text. He thanks her for her kindness, in the midst of your great sorrow , in writing to inform the Robertses of her husband s death. We have often talked of you both, and wondered where you were living. He had thought it was somewhere in the valley of the Thames, at least I thought you told me so when last I met you both walking in Regent Street - some 10 years ago . After a brief comment on Tierney s ill health, he recalls how He, Alfred Torrens, and I sat next to each other at Mills School. Torrens died a few weeks ago, and now I am the only one left. He ends by sending his and his wife s condolences, and in a postscript signed R asks to be informed should you come to London . In his 1914 biography, Walter Jerrold writes that between 1842 and 1845 Roberts was pupil of a Mr. Mills at Hampton .