You Could not Possibly have Had a Greater Loss.

Dear Mrs.Malcolm, I want to say how sorry I am about Chris.

During the last year I worked with him continually and I am sure I could do have found anywhere another companion so brilliant and yet so charming and unconceited. I regarded my interest in my work, and in such things as astronomy(to which he introduced me) as something to be shared with him and I think he felt a little the same about me.

Although that interest is partly gone, I know I must put as much energy if not as much interest into my work as if he were alive, because that is what he would like me to do.

I feel sure that you could not possibly have had a greater loss.