Original sentence: Volume IV of his Scriptores de musica medii aevi was about to be issued when, as his daughter Lilia wrote the day he died in Rijsel on 10 January 1876, exhausted by his affairs «our poor father finished with his weapons in his hands whilst serving the district»
Edited sentence: Volume IV of his Scriptores de musica medii aevi was about to be issued when, as his daughter Lilia wrote the day he passed away in Rijsel on 10 January 1876, exhausted by his affairs «our poor father finished with his weapons in his hands whilst serving the district»