I think it's likely that Francis suffered from depression himself - he spoke of wanting to drown himself in the Serpentine after being dismissed from his job as a jockey to the Queen Mother. I wonder whether he was unaware of the treatments available in the 1960s, or had tried and failed to access any effective ones?
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Date: 2014-07-12 12:30 pm (UTC)