The Collected Letters of Hannah More

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To Lady Olivia Sparrow, November 30 1812

Hatchard is about to publish a little Book by a worthy friend of Mine, entitled ‘a Father’s Letters to his Children’*; I beg to recommend it to you as sound and deeply serious.


Hannah More to Marianne Thornton, December 4th 1819

Take notice I write upon your information for I have not yet seen the Sermon in question. I have had much anxiety on the subject of Mrs. Inglis . Her life is so valuable that one cannot think without deep concern of any thing likely to affect it. I beg my kind regards to them both, and tell Mr. Inglis how much I felt the sympathizing kindness of his affectionate letter . I am now beginning to answer with my own pen a few of the overflowing number I have received. I have deeply felt the affectionate kindness of many though I have not been able to acknowledge it. My eyes are better, but I am not yet able to use them by candle light, which now fills a large portion of ones time. Mrs. Macaulay and her daughter* who have been with me near a Month have most kindly supplied my lack of sight. Alas! it is Newspapers that now fill too much of ones time and thoughts. I tremble for our country politically and morally. I do not know my own nation we certainly are not that England I once knew, and must always love. I look to the death of the king as the completion of our calamities . Rivington has asked leave to collect into a [tear]le cheap book the Tracts and ballads agai[nst] [tear] Se[dition] [tear] and blasphemy I wrote in the last year or two, as they will now come from the Organ of Orthodoxy, I hope they may make their way, you must recommend the dispersion of them to all who come in your way I shall order one to be sent to Mr. Inglis .*



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This index is an experimental feature of The Letters of Hannah More and is under constant revision. To the left you can explore mentions More makes of the highlighted topic, in loosely chronological order, throughout the digitised correspondance to date

This indexing is not done retrospectively, but is generated and automatically cross-referenced each time a new new letter is added to the collection. As we prepare the letters for the site we tag a number of things. People and placenames are among the most important - this allows users to explore the letters and find every reference to a person even if it oblique, misspelled, or if More uses an epithet.

In these special indices we have taken this a step further and tried to make machine-readable a number of recurring preoccupations of More's letters - from her health, to her (often opinionated) mentions of religious denominations. As with any index, categorising these necessarily requires editorial decision making. However, the topics we have chosen offer unique insight into the patterns of preoccupation in More's letters.