Grant, Charles

Hannah More to William Wilberforce

I think it wou’d be a very pretty galanterie of you to bring Mr. and here next Saturday; and I shall think you are quite a Modern Patron if you do not come and see that your poor Curates do their duty. Seriously I wish you wou’d, and we shall make you all work very hard on Sunday I can lodge you all – that is you three Gentlefolks – but ni Son ni daughter ni Man, ni Maid, but your shall have his Farm House. Pray let me know by return of post if this pretty proposal is acceptable & if Mr. Grant has not his own horses, we are so grand as to be able to send a Carriage to Bristol to fetch him and Mrs. Grant, as we have got one for two or three Months during the very hot weather. –

Hannah More to William Wilberforce

I only named that day thinking Mr. and stay might be short with you

Hannah More to Marianne Thornton, November 23rd 1816

We have had many of your friends and neighbours staying here one after another. – I thought the Senior remarkably well and I have a delightful long descriptive letter from him from the Isle of Skie [unclear]. and (dear Creature) spent three days with us the week before last he was pretty well for him, all spirit, feeling & kindness as usual. Lord C. has been at Bath for his health and is better, I rather think the are moving this way. ^* spent the day here yesterday – he has good Sense, a correct taste and much piety

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 27 August [1816]

We were much gratified by a visit of a few days from the two Mr. Charles Grants, as I presume your late guest told You. I tried much to detain , and to bestow on us a little of that Oratory which I have so often admired upon paper, but business called him to town, and his excellent father was engaged to visit his Constituents in Invirnesshire. His hurry however did not prevent his sending me down some good books e’re he departed