Dear Mrs. Murray: I have only now heard of dear Tom Murray’s death and I am so grieved over it that I can hardly contain myself to write you this letter.
While his demise was not entirely unexpected it is nevertheless a great shock, and I hasten to extend my deep and heartfelt sympathy in this your time of sorrow. You have lost a good and worthy husband and I a true friend, of whom I was very fond, and I’m sorry that I was far away from home when he was taken by loving and tender hands to his last resting place.
A clipping from a newspaper sent by my mother told the sad story. She sent it several days ago, but as I have been going about from place to place the news missed me till now.
May God bless and protect you is my humblest wish for you this night.
Yours with much sorrow,
Thomas Z. Lee.
New York, July 11, 1908.
Mrs. Thomas Hamilton Murray,
48 Carlton Road, Sea View, Mass.
Dear Madam: I am just in receipt of a journal of the American Irish Historical Society with printed request that I acknowledge it to the Secretary-General. Would that I could, and that he were still with us! I learned some weeks ago of his death and I beg to offer you my sincere sympathy and pray Our Lady, the Consoler of the Afflicted, to comfort you and the Lord to grant him His reward, the reward of the faithful and just.