Hole, Mrs

Hannah More to Mrs Sarah Hole, June 30th 1815

Forget my dear and ever dear Sally Horne? How could you my dear Madam think it possible? No, believe me, you still retain in our hearts the place you began to hold (at least in mine) at three years old.^*

Hannah More to Sarah (Sally) Horne Hole, 8 January 1816

I seize one of the few hours in which I have been able to hold a pen to write a line of Explanation to my dear Mrs. Hole

Hannah More to Sarah Horne Hole, December 26th 1818

I hope as the attachment of these two amiable young people seems formed on solid grounds, that they may prove a blessing to each other, and to the parish in which the Providence of Him who orders the bounds of our habitation and our whole /lot/ in life, shall place /them. / There is no character more exalted or more useful than that of an amiable Clergyman who faithfully preaches the doctrines of the New Testament, and who gives the best evidences that he himself believes /them/ by living as he preaches; and who makes his week day practice the powerful illustration of his Sunday exhortations. Nor has the Wife of such a Man a slight character to sustain; she will best prove her affection for her husband by seconding to the utmost of her power his endeavours to do good both to the souls and bodies of his people. To the poor she will be a pattern of kindness, to the affluent an example of prudence sobermindedness and piety. Her husband’s public lessons will produce a double effect on his domestic companion. Will dear Felicia forgive all this? I am tempted to it by the serious strain of your letter which pleased me the more as I thought I saw in it a visible growth in the state of y[our] [tear] own mind. I pray God to increase in you more and more his grace, without which all other advantages tempting as they may seem to the worldly and the superficial, have no solid worth. When you see dear Mrs. Horne assure her of my most affectionate respects. My , who as usual is a great sufferer joins me in kind regards to Miss Horne and to your fair daughter. Mr. Welby I am sure stands in no need of such advice respecting books as I can give him Among the ancient Divines, I prefer Archbishop Leighton,^* Hopkins,^* Reynalds,^* Taylor^* among modern Sermons, ,Venns^* Cooper’s^* Daniel Wilson,^* Gallaudet,^* Bradley,^* Gisborne^* Porteus^* I think Milner’s Church History^* a most excellent /work/