Drewitt, Mrs
Hannah More to Marianne Sykes Thornton, April 5th 1809
We are grievously sorry that Your kind attentions relative to are frustrated; the more so as the poor Mother on the strength of this good fortune has been negotiating to join a person who keeps a School in the West, chiefly for the sake of getting her girls instructed for nothing: The girls are bright creatures. I know little of the boy. I hope something may turn up.5