Walpole, Horace


To Lady Olivia Sparrow, August 1814

If I can get rid of my cough and I are engaged to go to our dear about the 29th., being there we must also acquit ourselves of a long promise to stay a little with . there will be a little difference in these Visits!! Mr. Way I trust will not be likely to come just at that time as it is the only time I shall be from home. Indeed the Dean I believe will be of the Jew party at Bristol.


Hannah More to Marianne Thornton, 1816

by the desire of my dear just before her death announced to me her departure. Her dying behaviour was most exemplary. She lived to see her offending, would I might say her penitent . She is thro much, very much turbulation endured unto the kingdom of heaven. I never witnessed such a life of trials. They have been sanctified to her. I feel much for her death tho I cannot regret it. It closes for ever my connexion with Strawberry hill.* There is no family in so many branches of which I have found such zealous friends. herself, her Sister , her Mother , her Uncle Lord Orford, all were singularly attached to me /and my constant correspondents/ I have seen them all go down to the grave – for one Alas! the brightest of the band* I have not ceased to mourn, not on account of his death but his unhappy prejudices against religion, tho they never appeared either in his conversation or letters to me.