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From time to time, she had a relapse, necessitating restraint ; and the pathetic story is told of sister and brother going hand-in-hand, weeping together, to the Asylum, which was found to be the only place where she could hope to recover her reason. On September 27th. , 1796, Lamb wrote the letter of which I have spoken it is as follows : White or some of my friends or the public papers by this time may have informed you of the terrible calamities that have fallen on our family. I will only give you the outline My poor dear dearest sister in a fit of insanity has been the death of her own mother. I was at hand only time enough to snatch the knife out of her grasp. prev     next
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