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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Literary items. (search)
n another expedition into Africa, and he has unfortunately perished in the course of it by a sad accident. The London journals announce the decease of Mrs. Carmichael Smyth, the mother of the late Mr. Thackeray. Her first husband, Richmond Thackeray, the great humorist's father, died at Calcutts in 1815, when his son, William a lady of more than eighty years of age, whose vigorous health and cheerful spirits are proverbial in her son's family." Since the decease of her son, however, Mrs. Smyth has not enjoyed her former robust health. His loss was a blow from which her failing age would not allow her to recover. She had been complaining all the summer, and as the winter cold came on, it was plain to her family that her strength was rapidly leaving her. Major Carmichael Smyth died about ten years ago. Mr. Serjeant A. J. Stephen recently died, in his seventy-eighth year. His "Commentaries on the Laws of England" and "Pleadings in Civil Actions" are well known as useful l