Richmond, in Surrey, Saturday 27 Aug

« My dear P. »

« Our dear friend Thomson died this morning about four o’clock, after a very short illness... [ am here to see the last duties fairly paid. I am almost sunk with this last stroke.

« Yours affectionately, »

2. « This blow makes a hideous gap, and the loss of such an agreeable friend turns some of the sweetest scenes in England into a something waste and desolate, at least for the time; it will be so for a long time with me, for I question whether I shall ever be able to see Richmond again without sorrow and mortification. » (Armstrong à Murdoch, London, 30 août.)