Eulogy of Dr. Christopher FitzSimons by T.G.B. — continued (two-page spread, bottom strip)
Book 1, Page 277 ·1866–1866
Transcription
Manuscript eulogy, continued — left-hand leaf (bottom half)
Always a [warm] advocate of right and Truth there was an earnest enthusiasm in his denunciation of wrong, which in the retired circle of his life made him a most efficient lay-preacher in all matters of [love?]. He never trifled with doubt nor matters which [struck through] affected Social virtue. His indignation against falsehood, trickery, and cowardice rose from the depths of a nature which welled up to overflowing with Honor [illegible]
Manuscript eulogy, continued — right-hand leaf (bottom half)
[illegible] the love which was lavished upon him from childhood. There is a fragrance about his memory which like sweet flowers blooming over a grave [will?] serve to shut out from the minds of his friends the terrible scene of his death. They will not dwell upon the thought of him crushed beneath the ruins of a falling house, or of his spirit [shattered?] amidst the wreck of [illegible]
AI Notes
Horizontal-strip scan of the bottoms of two facing manuscript leaves continuing T.G.B.'s (Theodore Garland Barker’s) eulogy of Dr. Christopher FitzSimons (d. 17 May 1866). Left leaf delivers a panegyric on his moral character — earnest, indignant against falsehood and cowardice; right leaf shifts to the manner of death, referring to him ‘crushed beneath the ruins of a falling house.’ Continues from page 276; continues onto the next scan.
Manuscript continues on the next scan.