It has tempted me to doubt the Eternal Goodness which can permit nature to offer such hideous possibilities; and if you had not with your own eyes seen the end, I should have said to you—disbelieve it all. I have not, I think, many more weeks to live, but you are young, and may forget all this.

Joseph Haberden, M.D.

In the course of two or three months I heard that Dr. Haberden had died at sea shortly after the ship left England.

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