Pearson, Hugh Nicolson

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 27 April [1815]

I have been delighted to see the elegant in his character of Cicerone to the Saints. He one day came down with whom I never saw before and who is a most amiable /Man/ and another with Hugh Pearson an old favorite of mine. of course accompanied. It is pleasant to see him easy and cheerful in such sort of company, and they exhibit religion to nam[tear] a pleasing form, without any of that alloy of coa[rse]ness [tear] which by assimilating itself with religion, makes the /young/ fancy that religion itself is worse. The Saints Jubilee at Bristol produced a great harvest.^* About 800 to the Missionary only.^* – The Jew business promises to revive these,^* that I hope will give me a peep at – I sent him my book,^* but know not if he has read it. It is a singular thing, that I have received more encouraging and flattering reports on that book from Bishops and the higher Clergy than from almost any others. I scarcely expected it