[Stamford Raffles death] Incomplete Autograph Letter announcing the Death of Stamford Raffles to [Thomas Macquoid,close associate of Raffles. See Note below]

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See Image. Incomplete (lacking at least the signature page], two surving pages, cr. 8vo, black-bordered, remnants of laying down, minor damage, text legible as folows: "The sudden death yesterday morning in a fit of apoplexy of Sir Stamford Raffles has throw us all into deep affliction in which am sure youy and Mrs Macquoid will participate. The blow has been so sudden and unexpected as to prove almost overwhelmingto poor Lady Raffles who is at this moment as you may imagine in a most wretched state tho perhaps upon the whole as calm and composed as can behoped. It [?] of course be a length of time before her [mind?] [will] recover the shock of the last and heaviest of the many afflictions with which she has [.] been visited. The body has been opened by Sir E. Horne and the cause of his death ascertained to have been apoplexy. The head was found to be in a very diseased state large masses of blood [.]" He continues that Raffles would have suffered agony from repeated attacks., continuing, "Had he survived his mind must have gone, this will in some measure reconcile his friends to his removal." Further text missing. Note: A pencil note names MacQuoid as recioient, but mention of Mrs MacQuoid confirms it. "Thomas MacQuoid, a partner in the substantial mercantile Java firm of Mac Quoid Davidson & Co, was a close associate [of Raffles]". (G. Roger Knight, Trade and Empire in Early Ninetenth Century Southeast Asia." See Image. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 27091

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