MANUSCRIPT: AC. Pencil. Envelope addressed by Lavinia.

PUBLICATION: L (1894) 363-364; L (1931) 352-353. According to Clark's notation, the letter was mailed 17 October 1883. The dating, 21 April 1884, in Letters, was due to a misreading of Clark's notations.

Though ED does not so intimate, the thoughts expressed are as much conjured by Gilbert's death as by that of Wadsworth, who died eighteen months earlier.

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