November 14th, 1887.
To Mr. Sydney Cockerell.
You will remember well Mr. Cooper’s great gift to us, and will have seen his death in Saturday’s paper.
I propose to put up to him a slab in the wall at Southwark, with these words:—
“To the Honble. Henry Frederick Cooper, whom we never saw, whom we hoped to see; but God took him to Himself before we could rejoice him by our joy here, or thank him with audible words. November, 1887.”
If you think that any of the members of the club, poor or rich, would like to join in the memorial by giving a few pence, will you, when occasion offers, ask them? The money I shall myself provide gladly; so no one need help who doesn’t wish to. I write to you because you know all about the gift, and how it helped us. Don’t say a word if you think it better not; I leave it entirely to you.
I send you a copy of our Parliament Hill papers, ... but we have a huge sum still to raise, upwards of £20,000; it comes in daily, and we mean to carry it through; but we shall have to strain every nerve.
14, Nottingham Place, W.,
March 2nd, 1888.
To Mr. Sydney Cockerell.