BIB_ID
433239
Accession number
MA 23088
Creator
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Display Date
London, England, 1782 April 10.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.5 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with remnants of seal: "To Miss Hamilton / Saint James's Palace." Based on the address, the recipient was most likely Mary Hamilton, courtier and diarist.
More gives the place of writing as "Adelphi." This is probably Adelphi Terrace, located in London.
Acquired with a collection of letters by important 19th-century woman writers, including Maria Edgeworth, Amelia Opie, and Harriet Martineau. Each item in the collection is cataloged separately.
More gives the place of writing as "Adelphi." This is probably Adelphi Terrace, located in London.
Acquired with a collection of letters by important 19th-century woman writers, including Maria Edgeworth, Amelia Opie, and Harriet Martineau. Each item in the collection is cataloged separately.
Provenance
Purchased at Bonhams, London, 27 March 2019, lot 202.
Summary
Apologizing for not having responded to her note earlier and explaining that they had just returned from Hampton; proposing that she, Miss Hamilton, and Mrs. (Eva Maria) Garrick have breakfast together on Friday; mentioning that Mrs. Garrick is "not perfectly well" and may therefore join them after breakfast; adding "Your assurances of esteem and regard are extremely flattering to me; and I will not affect a false humility so far, as to deny that I always feel a sincere pleasure in receiving praise from the praise-worthy."
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