I write just a line to tell you how seriously ill mother is. Her condition is critical. Four years ago our dear mother was attacked by cancer in the left breast....Her strength seems daily ebbing and her heart is very weak. Dr Ford Anderson says that she will never recover.2
We have no heart to say more.
Herbert H Gilchrist loc.02182.002_large.jpg loc.02182.003_large.jpg loc.02182.004_large.jpg loc.02182.005_large.jpg from Herbert Gilchrist (Mrs G is Dying) loc.02182.006_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist
(1857–1914), son of Alexander and Anne Gilchrist, was an English painter
and editor of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings
(London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887). For more information, see Marion Walker Alcaro,
"Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden (1857–1914)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.
Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).