Hoare, Mrs

Hannah More to Marianne Thornton, November 23rd 1816

I did indeed mourn for . wrote me a delightful character of her immediately on her death. Nor have I sustained a lighter loss in my beloved Mrs. Hoare of Mitchem.^* The behaviour of 7 is angelic. Last night had me the report of the death of my sainted friend . He seemed to be the nearest heaven of any man left on earth. It is a dying world. I seem to dwell among the tombs. Last night black gloves were brought for us for the death of our oldest friends. we were play fellows in childhood. God has given me many warnings and a long time for preparation may it not be in vain!

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 23 April [1816]

We have lately had to mourn the loss of several dear friends. Mrs. Wm. Hoare,^* eldest Grandaughter of my dear ^* has left Six Motherless children; producing the last was the immediate cause [unclear] of her Son. She was a Saint indeed! I never knew a more exemplary creature. Her trials had been great , on whom she doated, has long been in an alarming state of low spirits, and seems now perfectly torpid, except when any plan of benevolence awakens him. , went down to preach his Sister’s funeral Sermon; at his return he found two of his children dead and his wife delirious!^* These things shew that the peculiar Servants of the Lord are not exempt from the common calamities of life, and that health and prosperity are no certain marks of God’s favour. [six lines of deletions]