Sunday, February 18, 2024

Thomas H. Clay, May 13, 1852

WASHINGTON CITY, May 13, 1852.

My father passed the last night comfortable without much coughing. The only thing the doctors can do, is to alleviate as much as they can the pain arising from his cough and his excessive debility.

SOURCE: Calvin Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 633

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