The Indian Legislator, 8 February 1835 – 17 January 1838
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2010
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TO THOMAS FLOWER ELLIS, 8 FEBRUARY 1835
MS: Trinity College. Address: T F Ellis Esq /15 Bedford Place. Subscription: T B Macaulay. Partly published: Trevelyan, I, 430–4.
Calcutta Feby. 8. 1835Dear Ellis,
The last month has been the most painful that I ever went through. Indeed I never knew before what it was to be miserable. Early in January letters from England brought me news of the death of my youngest sister. What she was to me no words can express. I will not say that she was dearer to me than any thing in the world: for my sister who is with me was equally dear. But she was as dear to me as one human being can be to another. Even now, when time has begun to do its healing office, I cannot write about her without being altogether unmanned. That I have not utterly sunk under this blow I owe chiefly to literature. What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, – to be able to converse with the dead and to live amidst the unreal. Many times during the last few weeks I have repeated to myself those fine lines of old Hesiod.
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- The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay , pp. 127 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976
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