CROMWELL'S METHOD.
That most painful duty which devolves upon n C.O. —the writing of a letter condolence to the parents, describing their son's last moments on earth —was evidently as difficult 350 years ago as it is now (remarks, the London "Daily Express"). Oliver Cromwell,*in an autograph letter, breaks such a piece of news gently by the simple expedient of preceding it by a. description of the glorious victory of Mars ton Moor. Cromwell then adds: "God hath taken away your eldest sonn by a canon shott; it breakd his legg. . . . He was cxcecd--inglv beloved in the Armic of all thnt knew him. but few knew him, for hco was a precious younge man, fitt for Gcd. You have cause to blesse the Lord, hee is a glorious sainct in heaven." Alas! the same consolations that do not console.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16147, 27 February 1918, Page 2
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