WCP4250

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Tulgey Wood,

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Dorset.

Dec^r 10^th 1914

Dear Professor Cockerell,¹

You will, I know, be grieved to learn that my mother² died this morning. She had been suffering for the past two years from creeping paralysis & was latterly quite helpless, though she kept wonderfully brave & cheerful & took the greatest interest in her plants & the [2] 2. garden to the end.

She passed away quite peacefully on just such a beautiful sunny day as when my father died a year ago.

It was a happy release for her.

With kindest regards for Mrs Cockerell³ & yourself in which my sister joins,⁴

Yours sincerely | W. G. Wallace [signature]