From
H. E. The Governor,
Bombay.
To
Mrs. Brooke,
Ashbrooke,
Brookeboro'.
Viceroy desires me to convey to you his deep sympathy, in which I beg to join. It is reported your gallant Husband was killed while trying to carry off Captain Cruikshank when wounded.
From Major General Dillon.
Horse Guards, Pall Mall,
London, August 30th, 1880.
My dear Mrs. Brooke,
I have waited for some days before carrying out the wishes of the Duke of Cambridge, received from Kissengen, to convey to you by letter an expression of His Royal Highness' deep sympathy with you in your great affliction, and his sense of the loss which the service has sustained by the death of a gallant soldier and distinguished officer. In alluding to the sad event in the last letter received from Germany only to-day, His Royal Highness continues—"I am too sorry for General Brooke's death, a good officer lost to the service at a critical moment for the garrison of Kandahar. Lord Napier will feel it much."
Believe me,
Dear Mrs. Brooke,
Yours very sincerely,
M. A. DILLON.
From Lord Napier of Magdala.
August 25th, 1880.