Horne, Mrs

Hannah More to Sarah (Sally) Horne Hole, 15 February 1817

I rejoyce at the favourable report you make of my dear old friend Mrs. Horne: when you see or write to her, pray assure her of my constant regard and present kind remembrances to your .

Hannah More to Sarah Horne Hole, August 3rd 1821

I rejoyce with you on the comfort you must derive from seeing your dear Children so happily settled, and about to be settled. I pray God to grant them his blessing, without which nothing is strong, nothing is holy; and that blessing is abundantly granted to all who live in his faith and fear, and who seek to promote his glory. My love to your amiable and to your dear excellent Mother, who I hope has not forgotten me. As to All the accounts I receive of that old and excellent friend are discouraging, as to any hope of improvement. I am willing to hope however that she suffers little pain, so her neighbour lately assured me.^*

Hannah More to Sarah Horne Hole, March 16th 1824

I truly sympathize with you on the affecting loss you have Sustained on the death of my old friend your excellent Mother. Her great /piety/ however and her exemplary life afford a consolation to her surviving Family of the most soothing kind. She had indeed from her early life devoted herself to her God and Saviour I remember /her/ total submission to the divine /will/ upon the greatest bereavement she could sustain in this life. I never can forget your incomparable father, either in his delightful Society at Oxford,^* or on his dying bed at Bath, which I daily attended, and at the closing Scene took away his mourning widow to our house.^* She edified us by her patience in sorrow inexpressible. The great age to which her life has been prolonged^* is a very reconciling circumstance to you in losing her From the former state of her health you could not have calculated on keeping her so long. How timid and delicate she once was!