WCP4250

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Tulgey Wood

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Dorset.

Dec[embe]r 10th 1914

Dear Professor Cockerell¹,

You will, I know, be grieved to learn that my mother 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 Cockerell & yourself in which my sister joins,

Yours sincerely | W.G.Wallace [signature]