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X953/1/1
Title
Letter to Mary Wiggins (née Everett) from Hannah Kidd.
Date free text
9 February 1857
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From: 1857 To: 1857
Scope and Content
Written at Holly Grove House [Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire].
...Permit me to say that I do most deeply sympathize with you and your family under the severe trial through which you are passing. Your dear daughters are greatly distressed by the intelligence I had to make known to them this morning of the death of their dear brother [James Whitworth Wiggins], but I trust they will be enabled to look to Jesus, who will be their support and comfort. We all feel much for them; they are such amiable affectionate good girls and are much endeared to us, and let me assure you that whatever we can do to comfort them will be done.
This painful bereavement you will, my dear Mrs. Wiggins, feel comes from your heavenly Father’s hand and therefore "it is well"-- yes, however painful, "it is well" for you and well for your dear Child and I doubt not but you will be sustained under the stroke and enabled to say tho' with weeping eyes, "Father, thy will be done".
I am thankful that your other dear children are by the blessing God spared to you and I feel sure dear Lizzie and Mary will quietly wait here, as you think it best for them to do so. Wishing you all the consolation under this trial which you so much need from Jesus who is an ever present sympathizing Saviour and with our united kind regards believe me [etc.]....
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