Edwin Booth to Jervis McEntee

Edwin Booth to Jervis McEntee

Edwin Booth expresses his condolences to Jervis McEntee over the death of McEntee's mother. Booth is unable to write a longer note or comfort Edwina because of his excrutiating dyspepsia (ulcer?). A doctor told Booth to keep from acting, but he will go on somehow.

Booth, Edwin

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

1883-11-11

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T1883.11.11-MISC

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Parker's - Boston

Novr. 11th '83

Dear Jervy -

An excrutiating attack of dyspepsia -- from which I am not yet free -- alone prevented me from offering at once the sincere & cordial sympathy Edwina & I both feel for you all in your bereavement.

Although the dear old Mother is released from suffering & you from great anxiety -- a painful void is made by her departure wh. never can be filled, and believe me, Jervy, we both appreciate the

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lofs of her sweet presence.

I cannot write you a letter for my disease renders me wretched & tis with effort that I scribble this. A doctor has been attending me ever since I began my rehearsals - before I left New York, and advises me not to act, but I must pull through somehow.

Love to all.

Ever Yours

Edwin

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