My late loss may perhaps have reached you by this time, I mean the loss of my mother's house by fire, and in it, of every paper I had in the world, and almost every book. On a reasonable estimate I calculate the cost of the books burned to have been �200. sterling. Would to god it had been the money; then had it never cost me a sigh!
I like your attitude, after everyone of us breaths their last breath nothing but the kindness, love and consideration will live immortal.