Laurence Irving letter to Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 1905 October 16

              2006-1110, Gilston Road,  The Boltons. S.W.  Monday Oct 16th 1905  Dear Mr. Pinero: -  Thank you very much for your message of sympathy: please give my thanks to your wife for her most kind letter. I remember the last conversation I had with you - how grave you then considered the state of my father's health: now the sad end has come. The grief remains with us; but for himself such a weariness had come upon him lately, that one can hardly help feeling that the rest he craved for has come to him almost without struggle or suffering. I am very thankfull that I was able to see much of him during his last years; to judge of my poor father, I think, fairly -- which the unfortunant circumstances you know, did not allow me to do when I was younger. I still feel sorrowfully that we were not all, I think,