More, Elizabeth

Hannah More to Marianne Sykes Thornton, 21 January 1815

We here, for the last month had little hope, for the last fortnight none. Your secret misgivings we felt. Yet the shock when it did come was scarcely less. Patty is deeply distressed. who is very poorly, lost her voice when it was announced and has not recovered it. May God comfort you and bless you and your dear children. I know the sight of them cuts two ways; they are at once the source of consolation and of anxiety.^* Take care of yourself that you may be spared to render them worthy of such a father. I know this will be a motive with you. My dear friend ever yours

Hannah More to Mrs Sarah Hole, June 30th 1815

Truly happy shall we be to see you amp; Your Sister;^* a , of yours you cannot doubt will be affectionately received.^* You must come and spend a long day. will have told you that my poor Sister Betty, who was before very infirm has been keeping her bed five Weeks with a wound in her leg. I hope in a week or two she may be better able to enjoy seeing you. You will write and fix Your own day when it quite suits You. Write a few days before hand, (as the post is not always exact) lest we should any of us be from home, a circumstance however which rarely occurs.

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 is in a deplorable condition. The dropsy is fallen on her legs which are much in the same condition that carried off my /last/ Sister. All this is depressing to my Spirits I pray God to support them and me during the short remainder of our pilgrimage.