To Lady Olivia Sparrow. 8-11 October [1815]
Address: Sidmouth
Stamped: WRINGTON
Postmark: None
Seal: Black Wax
Watermarks: Undetermined
Endorsements:
None
Published: Undetermined
Your last letter afforded considerable relief to my mind. Perhaps it may afford a
little to your mind to hear that the subject has never been discussed in my present /ce/ . I have seen several of our common friends, but it has been in mixed company, when
delicacy on all sides caused a complete silence to be maintained People knowing my
attachment to you and the degree of intimacy with which you honour me has hitherto
prevented my being asked any questions which would have involved difficulty in the
answer.[2]
Oct 11th.
I know not what reason you have to think Mr. W – will be at Bath. Is his friend there. If I should see either or both of them, I think you may depend on my discretion.
Your last letter also is destroyed.
What you say of the conduct of a certain young Gentleman gives me great pleasure as it must be a cordial to your Spirits.
Adieu my dearest Lady O.
Yours ever
most faithfully
The letter is dated based on the reference to the ‘mysterious subject’, which occurs in a number of More’s letters to Lady Olivia in 1815.
This subject runs through a number of More’s letters to Lady Olivia, without being named directly. It seems, though, to relate to some kind of romantic entanglement between Lady Olivia’s son Robert and an unknown lady.
John Boak was rector at Brockley, near Bath, from 1795-1823.
In 1815 Way was deeply concerned with the status of the Jews in Europe, and was attempting to make plans to obtain land in Palestine, and to undertake research into their condition.