 | Death notice of Charles Brockden Brown |  |
[Description: Image of manuscript, death notice of Charles Brockden Brown; Charles
Brockden Brown Collection, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University
of Virginia Special Collections, accession number 6349a-34]
Mr. Charles Brockton Brown Editor of
the American Register.
The private sorrow of a beloved wife and children, whom death
has prematurely deprived of every thing that conjugal and parental fond-
ness is capable of bestowing, is the ordinary subject of that
sympathy which melts
the heart at the sight of the Widow's tears and the Orphan's woe: and
seldom does
melancholy subject occur with a more touching appeal to this
sentiment, than in
the present instance. But the death of this
estimable man must awaken in every
bosom something more than sympathy. Personal Friendship, to which the
gen
tle virtues of his heart, the elevated sentiments of his soul,
and the amiable simpli-
city of his
manners were so well known —
| Death notice of Charles Brockden Brown | |