“In the midst of a most charming trip my wife and I received a cablegram telling us that our little boy - a noble little fellow of six years old had died of membranous croup after only a few hours of sickness. He was our only son and, apart from parental prejudice, was I may say a child of deep mind and noble generosity of character.”
Howard Pyle to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, April 13, 1889
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so sad :/
I don't believe that they had any more children.
Ah, but they did. After Sellers (1882) and Phoebe (1886) came Theodore (1889), Howard Jr. (1891), Eleanor (1894), Godfrey (1895), and Wilfrid (1897). Quite a brood.
Sorry - after I posted that I realized he "our only son" was the oldest - I thought he was the youngest.
It's an amazing coincidence that Frederic Church went to Jamaica after losing two of his children and that one of the works of art he did in commemmoration was a painting of a moon.
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