To Lady Olivia Sparrow, September 1815
Address: / Sidmouth
Stamped: WRINGTON
Postmark: None
Seal: Black Wax
Watermarks: Undetermined
Endorsements:
None
Published: Undetermined
My dearest Lady Olivia
I hear Mr. Sparrow is got back to his Mentor. I dare say I shall soon see them. Our dear Bishop spoke kindly of him in his letter to me. I presume you have lost both him and Mr. Mernott:[6] but Mr. Dunn will repair the loss. I am sorry to hear that excellent and amiable Man a little too /much/ vindicates some of the peculiar opinions of our friend Knox. You must combat them if you find them carried a little too far. Of course you will not drop what I have said
With love to dear Millicent I am ever
my dearest Lady faithfully yours
In a letter dated 23 September 1815 More wrote to Charles Hoare of this visit of Sir Gore Ousley’s in almost identical terms to those she uses here, suggesting the letters may have been written at around the same time.
Lord Calthorpe had two sisters, neither identified by the ODNB.
Lord Charles Gough-Calthorpe, second baron Calthorpe, who had died at the age of 21 in 1807.
It has not been possible to identify this individual.
This mysterious subject is the topic of a number of letters from More to Lady Olivia at this time. The matter seems to relate to a romantic attachment or entanglement between Lady Olivia’s son Robert, and an unknown lady.
It has not been possible to identify this individual.