| Description | Letters from W.W.R's family in New York and thereabouts; from his father Edward Richards; his brothers, Fred and Joe about American failings and weather, their health, the settlement of their father's estate on his death (this included property in New York and caused much family trouble), Fred's bad voyage home from England due to stormy weather and William's eligibility for an American pension, as a former sergeant in the militia during the Civil War, 1896. In 1900 Fred's son, also Frederick, of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co., wrote that life was not worth living after the death of his wife. Another of William's brothers, Edward, wrote from London in 1899. |