The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-25
her husband from New York on Dec. d

/ you II your feelings are absolutely unchaneee
i there no alternative Arthur tells me this
| asked there was anything that hs eoyi
Ssud make sss,.sSs. Ss%7 ';s 10y
gag sfi H%ii''fSa Il. 'ssis e ::s si:
YOU soon. but tE Il DO s% not Se}cre isaVs her
Ver rr, d dds sse essse.
make me feel better although have though
II were vel out OF the way every b ID,
such bitter letter as your last Yours.
Q. At the time you wrote this letter t.
your husband Mrs Burdick, Mr.. Pencil anc
Mrs Pennell were in New York city, A
She said she had no conversation with Mr.
Pennen at that time about the suicide o.
either or both.
PKNNKLL's MELANCHOLY LETTER.
The next letter at the District Attorney
hand was written by Pennell to Mrs. Bur.
dick on Sept. Is, 1907, from Portland, Me
II follows:
Mr DEAREsI; Thi. is Wednesday night
and Is the first chance have had TO write you
had no time II Boston yesterday as ny
ny Old Soyhood Ssunt.. ' return 70 OPP Port.
shall leave for Boston; either Saturday o.
s sss ass % e. & 'Sp ma snt & g,
you ana ! want you, but you are not with
heavy hearted ami apathetic. can write no
we choose to break 1t. Ever yours.
Q. Do you recall receiving that letter
| from Mr. Pennellp A, do not.
| q. You had received letters from him In
that melancholy mood or tone? A. Why.
! guess 50. He was a man Of emotions.
-, Q. Can you tell us. from. the knowledge
that you had OF Mr.. Pennell, as 70 what he
meant when he wrote In this letter: Fate
is inexorable unless we choose to break
~? A. Choose to get the divorce and we
be joined in that way, it seems TO mo. -,
from the Hotel Somerset. Boston, on Sept.
%, 1902:
no RrArrsT L % ,i T Sn. also ess very hs'g
we Your etter there was 700 not
that It's tone was not happy, We are both OF
sa nnnappSS 4 %e too 70 alike
against our fate But we had our opportu-
nifty and let Il pass and II VIII never come
leave here for SeM Haven. Address there
G th..s &c, Cub l. Wed %stnesaSS si s,ys
home Saturday. morning There are some
lHS1ser. EEiGh wan want g attend g in SsS
wiz You again shaii H Isaye 'n Sew ' YSrE
p Tr,asy HiSht Am tired ana unhappy 70;
j want YOU. Ny heart always criss I tan az
Dearest. my own. my darling. Your.
Q. Tell me what he means when he says:
But We had our oppon unity and let il
pass and IL will never come again unless
we force IL to- A. think he means 10
refer to the time that was at Atlantic City
and came back. | was away then and we
might have been toget her II had stayed
tic City
Pennell was a steady. as well as . ready
letter writer. On Sept. rs, 1902, he wrote
that he was on his way 10 New Haven and
would be in Buffalo two days later. He
went on thus:
u did not want to see YOU 7 should stay
longer. but my heart drives me. the longing
Is TOO great but some time II viii cease though
soon that comes I do not rrch csre. Fate
has that n It's keeping: But thirk and
hoPS nd , E,i n ri BE very x. ionE ,,o,
you viii be .si. and have your children. who |
arc 40 much 90 you. Nv, you WIN pay fss |
the long y"gr' " ,en ! ,m not here "a. take YOU.
for nov !, Is known tina, am ready 70 take
ycg or r,v:"f and and YOU Viii viii b" oesaiI~d
and ven will have no defer -, but Il H. all fate.
and upon the knee. Of the DDS. / think thsli
ySa and osy You QUO AND %f tsoss
make, ,heIo oth.rvisc For they reject
my-clf TOO o much and J am never happy,
mo. FOR love. go aud II is much 10 me
w. T''r. ARTprR
O. lie says something In these ic. ers
hsi he don't care how lorr he lives. He rad
al xtstsh al l
A. Nc, not al all. But I remember a, tirnes
he said that life was rot a. sweet 10 him as
L was 20 a great many.
q. What did he say 10 YOU a. any time
sbout putting an end 10 his exist enoe'
A No, hing definite in any way
Q. Well. what did he say hat might Rave
been indefinite 20 The average mind that
made you think that that was what he
neant' A. said on Mr. Pencils death I
aid remember one occurrence in which he
.aid that u h" should be crippled for life
" raimed or nny hing Of hat kind ti,ai
would rake him simply miferahle all his
lie, that he though ANYBODY vas jusi fled
N making away wHh Themselves But il |
'as only la tia, general way he was
mo- ionsl. very sentimental. high string, !
M eas-
Mr.. Coatsworth rad a lister written by !
pennell from the Waldorf Al orin on sept 1
g. la1? lie referred 10 sono song he lad
Fought and added
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