She was safely confined on the 20th of October with a little girl, who bears my name, and seemed to be going on very well; but on Wednesday she began to sink from weakness, not disease, and died at three o'clock on Thursday.

It is a dreadful blow to _him_, for he was _so_ attached to her, and I don't believe two people ever were happier together.

I send you his pretty letter to me, which I think you may be interested to see; he is _dreadfully_ beat down by it, but struggles manfully against his grief, which makes one pity him more.

She has left four children by her first husband, _now orphans_, the eldest a sweet girl twelve years old, and two little girls by Lord John; the eldest of these two is two and a half, and the youngest a _fortnight_.

I had known her _very_ well and liked her, and I assure you I was dreadfully shocked at it.