The Collected Letters of Hannah More

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, Dec 1826 [incomplete]

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Mrs. H. More/ Decr. 1826.

MS: British Library, Egerton 1965 f. 93
Published: Undetermined


[December 1826][1]

I hear frequently from that most active and genuine Christian the Duchess of Beaufort[2] – She is the Lady Olivia of this part of the World. Three of her daughters, as you know, are most exemplary.[3] I trust you have read Lord Bexley’s Bible Speech ,[4] he sent it me with [tear]ly pious letter. Tho not many [tear], not many noble are called, yet blessed be God some are, and the number is visibly greatly increased, and increasing.

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[1]

The letter is dated using the endorsement.

[2]

Lady Charlotte Sophia (nee Leveson-Gower, 1771-1854), wife of Henry Charles Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort.

[3]

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort had eight daughters. The three eldest unmarried daughters in 1826 were Lady Susan, Lady Louisa, and Lady Isabella Somerset.

[4]

Possibly Speech of the Right Honourable Lord Bexley at the anniversary of the Kent Auxiliary Bible Society: held at Maidstone on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1826 (London?: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1826).

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