"He must have been a whole time job for you:" Condolences to Mrs. Waugh.

The article proposes that letters of condolence sent to writer Evelyn Waugh's widow, Laura, are a rich source in filling out a life under consideration. Topics covered include the practice of grieving online and sending condolences via e-mail, the letters received which point to relationships and exchanges with him which were warm and memorable and the various forms of the rhetoric of bereavement.