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ButterflyEffect · 2993 days ago · link · · parent · post: Francis Carr-Gomm to the Editor of The Times, regarding Joseph Merrick - 'The Elephant Man'
And now I'm really emotional on a Saturday night.He occupies his time in the hospital by making with his one available hand little cardboard models, which he sends to the matron, doctor, and those who have been kind to him. Through all the miserable vicissitudes of his life he has carried about a painting of his mother to show that she was a decent and presentable person, and as a memorial of the only one who was kind to him in life until he came under the kind care of the nursing staff of the London Hospital and the surgeon who has befriended him.