SD2064. Journal Entry of William Surtees Cook

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 257 (in part).

Taunton

17 April [1857]

My dearest Henrietta’s poor father died at his house, 50. Wimpole Street, London at half-past eleven o’clock this night. He had been long ill, from having broken his leg some years ago, by being thrown down by a cab, besides other causes of suffering. His dissolution was finally accelerated by going to Epsom to vote for a member for the county. The fatigue and excitement were too much for him and—it brought on an attack of erysipelas—which weakened him so much that he gradually sunk. He was in the 72d year of his age.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.

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