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Letter from William Hone, London, to Joseph Hone, 1832 June 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
101430
Accession number
MA 23503
Creator
Hone, William, 1780-1842.
Display Date
London, England, 1832 June 22.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 24.7 x 20.1 cm
Notes
Joseph Hone was William Hone's brother.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London : Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number 509- D548 F.
Address panel to "Joseph Hone Esq / Master of the Supreme Court / Hobart Town / Van Diemens Lane / 22 June 1832."
Summary
Concerning the health and financial situation of their mother; relating news of the passage of the Reform Bill, discussing at length his personal religious struggles and the state of his thinking and asking for his brother's prayers for their mother; adding, in a postscript, that he hopes to send him "...in about a month, a bust of our Father modelled by my son Alfred - and, with that, you will receive my forthcoming pamphlet - God Almighty bless you, and yours, forever."