‘You ruin’d me forever’: A Suicide Letter at Hyde Park Basin

03/08/2021 4 min
‘You ruin’d me forever’: A Suicide Letter at Hyde Park Basin

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London United Kingdom In 1798, a letter was left at the bank of Hyde Park Basin. Why had it been left there? And why did its author want it to be published? Find out about the struggles of John Cook, the butler to the Marquis of Titchfield, who died here.