The Collected Letters of Hannah More

Hannah More to Mrs James, 2 December 1804

To: Mrs. James
Address: Wine Street/ Bristol
Stamped: None
Postmark: None
Seal: Red wax
Watermarks: None
Endorsements:

H. More Decr. 2. 1804 [and] Hannah More/ to my/ Aunt/ EB

Nicholas D. Smith records in The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More that the letters between More and Mrs James belonged in later years to the father of Mrs Mabel S. K. Gill (nee Wait); he was nephew to Mrs James. It is likely that the endorsement was written by this man. See Smith, p. 10.

MS: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: Perceval General Series
Published: Undetermined

Barley Wood
Sunday [2 December 1804][1]

Dear Madam

I feel quite hurt at sending to your house on a Sunday – but it is on account of a very valuable parcel which Mr. Wilberforce has sent me from Lyme, by a Waggoner who puts up at the Three Queen in Thomas Street[2] and who promis’d faithfully to deliver it at your House last Thursday – Shou’d it be come You will be so good as deliver it to the Bearer as also any letter – I have ordered him to wait till the Post is in, hoping that may throw some light on this Accident –

You wou’d be pleas’d to see the kind and deep interest Mr. Wilberforce takes in the illness of your dear Brother[3] – I have written to him the good news of his being better – May God restore him!

Yours very truly
H More

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[1]

Nicholas D. Smith records in The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More that the letters between More and Mrs James belonged in later years to the father of Mrs Mabel S. K. Gill (nee Wait); he was nephew to Mrs James. It is likely that the endorsement was written by this man. See Smith, p. 10.

[1]

The letter is dated using the endorsement.

[2]

The Three Queens was in St Thomas Street, almost opposite St Mary Redcliffe. It was run at this time by Thomas Hodge. The inn was a common stop for waggoners.

[3]

A Mr Wait. It has not been possible to identify this individual further.

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