Susan Rock Letter with Reflections on Miles Rock’s Death

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“The letter no 1 of 1901 is the last I shall ever possess of your father’s - none came last week and none this week so perhaps he was ill some time and I was not there to minister to him - no one of his own to close his eyes in that long sleep.”

Susan Clarkson Rock Reflects on Receiving Miles
Rock’s Last Letter Home, 1901.

Susan Rock (1841-1930), [letter] 1901, Jan. 31, [to] Alfred Rock (1877-1907) Washington D.C.

▶Death of Miles Rock
▷Susan Rock Letter with Reflections on Miles Rock’s Death