...appetite was gone. The stomach rejected food. The free use of his faculties was disturbed, and he sank with a rapidity that, even to those who watched him closest, seemed startling. In one of Greeley 's Letters to a Lady Friend (published in 1893), he wrote, under date of November 8, 1872, As to my wife's death, I do not count it. Her sufferings since she returned to me were so terrible that I rat...