JB/541/026/002

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I am sorry to have occasion to inform you that your Friend
Mr Alexander Shairpe of Broadstock Buildings is de died
about a month or five weeks ago & still more so that
he died by his own hands, having put an end to his
own Existence one morning just before He & his
wife were about going into his Carriage to take an
airing. he had been in a melancholy way for a
considerable time before even last January when he
went to Buxton wch he was advised to do for the
sake of the Bath there sited. I don't think he had
been well since the death of Mr Shairp the late Consul
at Petersburgh who I take it was his brother for one
day, when I called upon him soon after that Event
when I observed he wa seemed very much affected,
& greatly disappointed & chagrined that <gap/. Mr
Shairpe's Son did not succeed his father in the
appointment of Consul, & perhaps the more as he
might have formed some expectation of

Identifier: | JB/541/026/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1789-03-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
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