Edmund, Angelo, Teresa, Dominic. We meant everything to her.

Her life and death

Teresa, was my twin sister and the eldest by 10 minutes as she often reminded me during her life.

A recently discovered letter from one of the loves in Teresa's life. Duncan Rouse, who sums up the essence of Teresa better than I could ever hope to do.

                                                                              TERESA

She dwells in the thoughts of a multitude of men and women, who feel life emptier for her absence.     Her character, which was a fairly strange one, invites analysis, but may easily evade it.

She loved to support lost causes and to advance paradoxical opinions.

Teresa had a passionate horror of injustice, and a wild determination to correct it without any counting of the cost.

Teresa was not, in the first instance, a writer, but a talker.

Conversation was the natural medium of communication with her.  

The rapidity of her mental movement, her fantastic flights of paradox, and in the astonishing breadth of her knowledge she was truly remarkable.

What, however, will be remembered the longest is not her laughter, nor her easy erudition, nor even her extravagent ideals, but her quixotry of self denying generosity.

Teresa wore herself out in deeds of active kindness.

She was disinterested almost to excess, and indefatigable in practical benificence.

THIS ENDS DUNCANS LETTER.

I feel that Duncan got to know my sister better than I.

TERESA AT DOMINIC AND PINA'S WEDDING TOWARDS THE END OF HER LIFE. I CALL THE PIC      BOUDICAE.

TERESA.
ONCE UPON A TIME IS THE TRADITIONAL START TO EVERY
GOOD STORY. ONCE UPON A TIME TERESA WAS BORN, 10 MINUTES BEFORE HER BROTHER EDMUND, A FACT SHE NEVER LET ME FORGET. SHE REMAINED AHEAD OF ME IN MANY RESPECTS ALL HER LIFE.
TERESA HAD A PASSION FOR LIFE AND A CONSTANT GENEROUS HEART, EVERYONE WHO KNEW TERESA WILL HAVE BEEN ENRICHED BY THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH HER.
HER WARM WELCOME AS YOU VISITED HER IN HER HOME WAS EQUALLY MATCHED BY THE GENEROUS SIZE OF THE HELPINGS OF FOOD ALWAYS PLACED BEFORE YOU.
TERESA HAD A GENUINE INTEREST IN PEOPLE, AND COULD ALWAYS BE RELIED UPON IN TIMES OF TROUBLE. I SPEAK FROM MUCH EXPERIENCE.
WE SHALL ALL MISS TERESA. WHO KNOW CAN FILL OUR LIVES WITH SUCH KINDNESS AND LOVE? WHO ELSE CAN DRAG US OUT OF OUR LITTLE MISERIES AND FILL OUR DAYS WITH INFECTIOUS LAUGHTER?.
THIS WOMAN HAS HUMBLED ME BY HER DEVOTION TO HER GOD. YOU WERE NOT PERFECT TESS, YOU ENJOYED LIFE TOO MUCH FOR THAT. BUT I KNOW GOD WILL HAVE MADE AN EXTRA BIG CHAIR FOR YOU TO SIT IN BESIDE HIM. 

YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER EDMUND.

TERESA'S POETRY

WHEN.

When I leave this place

This timeThink of me

With memories kind

For all my faults

I loved you all

Don’t let my life

Into oblivion fall

Remember me

In thought and prayer

Knowing I am

Always there.

Think of me

Hold my hand

Maybe I’m in

A better land

In his mansion

Are many rooms

Life’s ending

Not full of gloom.

There is a

New life

Waiting here

With my lord

I hold so dear.

Bring me

A primrose

A violet blue

Knowing I’m

Awaiting you

 TERESA WEBBER.  1997.