[ Coleridge ] Autograph Letter Signed, "Mary Coleridge" to a "Mr. Laurence" [Samuel Laurence, portrait-painter?], about illness and death.

Three pages, 12mo, black-edged, bifolium, fold marks, good condition. She sympathises with his "grievous loss". God's help shpould lighten the load. They've had a difficult year during which her sister was taken ill and died "leaving a gap in our circle not easily filled." The "bright spot" was her son's marriage to a "sweet young girl [...] but my husband [Derwent] was too ill to go to the wedding and he is only just convalescent, a slow redovery retarded by endless parish worries." Theyt've ;lost an "excellent curate and cannot get another for love or money, so that he is sadly overworkefd [...]" Another had has added the name "Sara Coleridge" on the final blank apparently erroneously, but Samuel Laurence, perhaps the correspondent, painted a portrait of Sara.