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Oct 15th 1915 Harlow – Essex
My dear Ferguson
Your letter came 3 days ago – and I thank you for it. What could you say? What can I reply? – Archies death is disaster to us for which there is no remedy. The world will never be the same again – and if I have the misery to grow really old I shall go sadly to the end. I hope that length of days be left out to me. I have had sufficient – I heard Archie was wounded at Colombo – I never doubted but that he was dead – and I heard it was so at Suez – It was a horrid voyage – but there were v kind folk on board. I of course hurried on to England so I had no chance to look for yr boy – I pray all will go well with your brave children – and that the sorrow of "looking on ones children in the light of ancestors", Bruce E Burkes expression when his only son died, may not fall heavier upon you. I let my feelings go to you dear man for I am not unmindful of that tragic night in the Blue Mountains – It is etched in my mind now – and so you know all about my present blackness of despair – I got home and found May a wreck – her support being Stephanie Barton, who was with her when the news came, guite casually too, in an advising letter to Stephanie, not from official sources. Stephanie has turned out a very rock of defence in these distressful days –