| Description Of Item | Cutting is an account of the birth and death of a son to Santiago de los Santos and Ann Hopkins. The child, which was 13.5 inches long and weighed 1lb 4oz, died less than an hour after birth. Cutting details that though the baby's body was taken to St George's Church, Bloomsbury for burial, the church refused it. Instead, the body was to be preserved in spirits and exhibited publicly and deposited in a museum. Cutting then details specifics of the marriage between de los Santos and Hopkins.
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