The letter is dated on the basis of More’s reference to Hunt’s activities.

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa (London: Cadell and Davies). It was published in six quarto volumes between 1810 and 1823. In a codicil to her will, More left her set to John Scandrett Harford.

As a Member of Parliament, Addington was entitled to a ‘Free Frank’. For More to benefit, her letters had to travel under Addington’s cover.

Possibly The Death of M^r. Fantom the new Fashioned Reformist (1817), composed in March that year.

Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt (1773-1835), radical campaigner. Hunt was imprisoned in 1800 for challenging to a duel his superior officer in the Marlborough yeomanry: there he encountered radical ideas for the first time, and soon began reading the works of William Cobbett. Hunt had invested in the Jacob’s Well brewery in Clifton, just outside Bristol. Difficulties there required Hunt’s residence in the city, and in 1807 he founded the Bristol Patriotic and Constitutional Assocation. He twice contested Bristol in elections, inciting the public in a way disconcerting to the establishment. In the wake of the poverty that struck Britain after the end of the Napoleonic wars (on which More commented frequently in her letters of this period), Hunt became involved with workers’ movements, and was present at the Spa Fields Meetings of 1816 and 1817. He was delegated by the Hampden clubs at Bristol and Bath to petition members of parliament in the area in 1817.