[Admiral Sir Reginald Tupper, Royal Navy officer active in the First World War.] Autograph Letter Signed from his second wife ‘Carrie [Caroline] Tupper’ to ‘Mrs. Henderson’, concerning her husband’s ill health, within a few months of his death.

See the entry on Admiral Tupper in the Oxford DNB: ‘After the death of his first wife he married second, on 24 June 1933, Caroline Maud Abadie (1863-1948), the widow of General Sir Henry Richard Abadie; she was the daughter of Colonel Fanshawe Gostling, of the Royal Berkshire regiment.’ 4pp, 12mo. On two leaves of blue paper, in stamped and postmarked envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. Henderson / c/o Lady Edwina Lewin / Salthrop House / Wroughton / Wilts.’ A long letter in a not entirely straightforward hand. She begins by discussing the recipient’s husband’s improving health, she appears to say (the handwriting makes the entire transcription doubtful) that she ‘has had a dreadful “night mare” time’ over her husband’s health: ‘he began working again at “The Chelsea [Reserve?] W[?],” with Colonel [Boyes?]-Lyon, and did too much, [?] & had heart attack on July 29th. when I had to take him into the Royal Masonic Hospital for a specialist to attend’. This takes us around half-way through the letter. The second half is no less opaque.