More, Sally
Hannah More to William Wilberforce
I am gri[e]ved to find you so poorly, and the more as you were seized too soon (humanly speaking) after Bath Water. I pray God to give you strength to go thro your important labours, and to give you in abundance the comforts of his spirit. – and Sally but poorly.
Hannah More to Marianne Sykes Thornton, 28 November 1814
This is my first letter since my visitation. – not but that I could write, for my Sword Arm escaped the fire. But thro’ the extreme and undeserved kindness of my friends, I suppose there have been not much less than a hundred letters of inquiry to answer, and tho it sadly overloads who is not well and assisted by S – yet I forbear writing to those to whom I wishd that I might conscientiously say I had written to none – this has given me a little time for my other business. I have generally managed in the same way with visitors, which I believe includes every creature /(visitible)/ within ten Miles, so that having so good an excuse I have rather gained time than lost.
Hannah More to Marianne Sykes Thornton, 28 November 1814
I have heard twice lately from Lady Olivia but have not yet written to her. The excursion to the Lakes seems to have quite answered; tho it appears she found every thing in it, except that rest which was the professed Object of the tour. More on her Subject when I have more time
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, March 18 1813
Being to day under the disqualifying dominion of Calomel*, I can only write a hasty line on the principal topics of your little /but/ kind letter. As far as two sickly human beings can venture to determine, and I hope to appear to you at Brampton Park by the middle of May; but the precarious state of my eldest Sister adds to our uncertainty, tho she is much /better/
Hannah More to Marianne Thornton, written between 1815 and 1817
Sally is glad that your head is not high, and that your petticoats have acquired no curtailment
Hannah More to Marianne Thornton, November 23rd 1816
do come, a long way commonly, we cannot send them off with the lye – not at home. As to health I am the best of a bad bunch. Sally has good days, but I fear is very declining – constant fever yet she is always employ’d and I believe * never made so many Garments. Indeed the poor [final section of letter has been cut away]
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 23 April [1816]
We have lately had a visit from ,* a most sensible and I believe pious Man; he seems to have taken a deep interests in the improvement of Ireland, and to be thoroughly acquainted with the existing state of things. I am expecting him again before he returns. He speaks most highly, that is more justly, of our friend . I hope e’re this you have made your visit to Dublin and the Environs. I want you much to see my very interesting friends in that district. Pray my kindest remembrances to when you encounter him either by pen or person. My poor Sister Sarah we fear is far gone in a dropsy! the others poor invalids. I think I am rather the best of a bad bunch. Love to dear . I commend you to God and the word of his grace the Apostolic benediction.*
Hannah More to Sarah (Sally) Horne Hole, 15 February 1817
I trust you will pardon my long delay in answering your kind letter. It has arisen from a variety of causes; when I received it I was very ill of a bilious fever, my two were confined at the same time, and we had nobody living down stairs for near three weeks. I am much better, but still an invalid, chiefly from want of sleep. has a complaint on her chest, and constant fever, and is forbidden to talk, and poor Sally is in a deplorable condition. The dropsy is fallen on her legs which are much in the same condition that carried off my /last/ . All this is depressing to my Spirits I pray God to support them and me during the short remainder of our pilgrimage.