BIB_ID
193585
Accession number
MA 4695
Creator
Manley, Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière), 1663-1724.
Display Date
"Wednesday", [1709 Nov. 2].
Credit line
Purchase, Fellows Fund, special gift of Walter Burke; 1991.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
She was bailed on 5 November.
Text in full: "The misfortune of my present circumstances is I hope an (allowd) excuse for presuming to write to a person like you whom I have not the Honor to know. I have beggd Mr. Steele interest that I may be brought to a speedy examination; there is nothing I more earnestly desire; next to the power of Atonment for the offence I have unwarily given. / If submission & penitence carry but a shaddow of that weight below as we know they do above, I may not despair of finding Grace: At least there shall be nothing unattempted on my part to ?. / Consider Sir a fault arising neither from malice nor design but hear of Fancy alone the enthusiastick dreams of some lonly country hours, yet will I not pretend (with ? only to my intentions) to be wholly innocent since I am thought fitt to be condemn'd by you. I humbly beg a speedy hearing of your pardon for / your most obedient & most humble servt Dela Manley."
With integral address leaf.
Text in full: "The misfortune of my present circumstances is I hope an (allowd) excuse for presuming to write to a person like you whom I have not the Honor to know. I have beggd Mr. Steele interest that I may be brought to a speedy examination; there is nothing I more earnestly desire; next to the power of Atonment for the offence I have unwarily given. / If submission & penitence carry but a shaddow of that weight below as we know they do above, I may not despair of finding Grace: At least there shall be nothing unattempted on my part to ?. / Consider Sir a fault arising neither from malice nor design but hear of Fancy alone the enthusiastick dreams of some lonly country hours, yet will I not pretend (with ? only to my intentions) to be wholly innocent since I am thought fitt to be condemn'd by you. I humbly beg a speedy hearing of your pardon for / your most obedient & most humble servt Dela Manley."
With integral address leaf.
Summary
Concerning her arrest and imprisonment related to the publication of her political novel New Atlantis (1709).
Catalog link
Department