Most leading biographers maintain that Sarah died at Twickenham of a stroke. This information seems erroneous. From what is read in the letters on this site, Sarah was in London (see 1 and 1 note) during the late stages of her illness. Also, surviving legal documents explicitly state her place of death as Ralph's London home: "Sarah Disraeli, formerly of Ailsu Park Villas Twickenham in the County of Middlesex and late of No 73 Gloucester Place Hyde Park in the same County Spinster deceased who died on or about the Nineteenth day of December 1859, at No 73 Gloucester Place". Both Weintraub and Bradford agree that Sarah died in Twickenham of a stroke. They offer no evidence for the claim of her stroke. From the symptoms described in the letters (loss of appetite, distention and pain in the bowels, delirium and mention of surgery as an option), a stroke seems an unlikely cause of death.