WOMEN, MORALITY AND ADVICE LITERATURE

Manuscripts and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More (1745-1833) and her circle from the Clark Library, Los Angeles

Part 1: Manuscripts, First Editions and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More

Part 2: Gift Books, Memoirs, Pamphlets and the Cheap Repository Tracts

Part 3: Writings by The Eminent Blue Stockings

Detailed Listing - Part 1

Manuscripts

REEL 1

Letters from Hannah More

1777. 19 August. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 2 leaves. Signed by HM

[1781]. 15 June. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM.  With ribbon tie. Filed out of sequence.

[1782]. 17 April. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 4 leaves. Signed HM

1782. 25 June. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1782. 17 April. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1782]. 10 October. To: [Mrs Kennicott?] 8 leaves. Signed HM

1783. [‘I don’t know the day of the month’] To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves.  Signed HM

1783. [ 26 January? or April?] To: Mrs Kennicott 6 leaves. Signed HM

1783. 1 April. To: Mrs  Kennicott. 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1783]. 22 April. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 6 leaves. Signed HM. With ribbon tie. Filed out of sequence.

1783. 20 May. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1783. 18 September. To: [Mr Pepys] 7 leaves. Signed HM

1783. 4 October. To: Mrs Kennicott. 8 leaves. Signed HM

1783. 11 November. To: [Mr W W Pepys]  7 leaves. Signed HM. ‘On books for children’

[1784. 25--] – franked. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM. R ibbon tied and out of sequence

1784. 7 June. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM. Ribbon tied and out of sequence

1785. 20 October. To: [Mr W W Pepys] 4 leaves. Signed HM.

[1786]. 19 April. To: [Mrs Kennicott?] 6 leaves, incomplete? Signed in pencil HM

[1786 or 1787 or 1788]. 8 July. To: 5 leaves, Signed HM. With ribbon tie and filed out of sequence

[1788]. May. To: [Mr. W W Pepys] 4 leaves. Signed HM

1789. 14 September. To: [Mr W W Pepys] 4 leaves. Signed HM.

1789. 25 December. To: [Mrs. Kennicott] 4 leaves. Signed HM. Ribbon tied and out of sequence.

1790.1 September. To: [Horace Walpole] 2 leaves folio. Signed HM

1790. [post 1 September]. To: [Horace Walpole]. 2 leaves folio. Signed HM

1793. 4 February. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed in pencil HM

1793. 18 July – franked. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 7 leaves. Signed HM

1793. 18 November. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves – incomplete. Signed in pencil HM

1796. 14 January. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves, Signed HM

[1796]. 30 January. To: [Mr Kennicott] 4 leaves mutilated

1797. 7 August. To: Mrs H Thornton. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1797. 8 September. To: Z Macaulay. 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1798]. To: [Mrs. H. T(hornton)] 4 leaves. Incomplete?

[1800]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 2 leaves with additional two leaves cut away.  Referes to death of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu[1800?]. To: Mrs H T(hornton)] 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1800]. 2 June. To: [Mrs. Kennicott?] 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1800]. 25 November. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 5 leaves. Signed HM

1801. 10 April. To: Mrs Kennicott. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1801. 1 December]. To: Mrs La Touche. 6 leaves. Signed HM On school management

[1802?]. To: Alexander Knox, Dublin. 3 pages. Signed HM

1802. 17 June. To: John Bowdler. Copy [by HM?] of 20 page letter.On the Blagdon controversy – cutting from Bookseller’s catalogue tipped in. [stitched to]

[1802]. [‘Extracts from another letter of mine.’ ie HM] pp21-24.

[1802]. 1 August. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1805. 11 January. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1805?]. 21 February. To: Alexander Knox. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1805]. 19 April. To: [Alexander Knox] 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1806?]. To: Alexander Knox. 3 leaves. Signed HM.  With newspaper cutting about Knox attached

1806. 6 January. To: Alexander Knox. 4 leaves. Signed HM.  ‘Hints to a Princess.’

[1806]. 27 April. To: Mrs H Thornton. 7 leaves. Signed HM

1806. 10 May. To: Alexander Knox. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1806]. 17 July. To [Mrs Holroyd]. 4 leaves with a possible related leaves defective and cut away. Signed HM

1807. 14 July. To: Mrs Thornton. 6 leaves. Signed HM.

1807. 12 September – franked. To: Henry Thornton, MP. 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1807]. 28 September. To: Mrs Holroyd. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1807. 14 December. To: [Sir W W Pepys] 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1808]. 12 January. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1808 or 1809]. 9 June. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1808. 18 June. To: Henry Thornton. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1808]. 28 June. To: Z Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1809]. 20 February. To: Mrs Kennicott. 6 leaves. Signed HM

1809. [23] February – franked. To: Mrs Huber. 4 leaves. Signed HM.  Concerns the publishing of ‘Caleb …’

[1809]. 21 July. To: Mrs Kennicott. 6 leaves. Signed HM

1809. 11 November. To: Mrs Holroyd 5 leaves. Signed HM

[1810?]. [To a Friend] 4 leaves preceded by 2 leaves cut through. Signed HM.  ‘A    fragment’

1810. 5 April. To: Z Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

1810. 5 July. To: [?] 1 leaf - detached. Signed HM

[1810?]. 22 July. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1810]. 13 November. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1811]. To: Z Macaulay. 2 leaves. Signed HM

1811. 30 January. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed [HM] With enclosure

1811. 10 May. To: Mrs Holroyd. 2 leaves incomplete. Signed HM. [Attached to] 15 October 1811

[1811] 8 July. To: Z Macaulay. 2 leaves incomplete. Signed HM

[1811 or 1813?]. 15 October. To: Mrs Holroyd. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[With] 10 May 1811

1812. 10 June. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 5 leaves. Signed HM

1812. 21 September. To: Z Macaulay. 2 leaves. Signed HM

[1812]. 28 October. To: Mr. Huber. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1812]. 13 November. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1813]. 25 March. To: [Mr W W Pepys]. 8 leaves. Signed HM

[1813]. 9 May. To: Mrs Thornton. 4 leaves. Signed in pencil HM

[1813]. 4 July. To: Mrs Thornton. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1813. [4] August – franked. To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM.  Printed Letters of Hannah More To Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp55-57

1813. 24 August. To: Lady Sparrow. 6 leaves. Signed HM

[1814]. To: [?] final leaf only. Signed HM

[1814]. To: Lady Olivia Sparrow. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1814?]. 15 January. To: Zachary Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

1814. 17 February. To: Mrs Holroyd. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1814]. 27 June. To: Lady Olivia Sparrow. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1814. 21 December. To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM  Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp 64-7

[1815]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM. Reproduced in Life  Volume 3, p428

[1815?]. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 pages. Signed HM.  Emperor of Russia’s visit.

[1815]. To: [Mr & Mrs Huber]. 4 leaves incomplete

[1815?]. 4 February. To: Zachary Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM. Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay Esq, pp71-3

[1815]. 8 March. To: Mrs Holroyd. 3 leaves – torn. Signed HM

1815. 18 March. To: James Stephen, MP. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1815 15 April – franked]. To: Z Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

1815. 6 May. To: Z Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1815]. 30 June. To: Mrs Holroyd. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1815. 15 October]. To: Zachary Macaulay. 3 leaves mutilated. Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp87-9

[1815. 18 October]. To: Lady Olivia Sparrow. 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1816].18 March. To: Sir William Weller Pepys. 5 leaves. Signed HM

[1816 or 1814? 12 April]. To: [Mrs Thornton?] 4 leaves. Signed HM.  Wilberforce’s visit

[1816]. 8 June. To: Lady Olivia Sparrow. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1816]. 24 December. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1817]. 24 March. To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM.  Printed Letters of Hannah More to

Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp91-4

[1817]. 18 April. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1817. 17 May]. Zachary Macaulay. 1 leaf. Signed HM.  Wrong date by W Roberts.  Relates the death of

Sarah/Sally More.

[1817. 4 June]. Mr & Mrs Huber. 5 leaves. Signed HM

[1817]. 21 November. To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves incomplete.  Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp99-104

[1817]. 13 December. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves incomplete

[1818]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves incomplete

[1818]. 25 [?] To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM.  Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary

Macaulay, Esq, pp120-126

[1818]. 28 May. To: [ Mr & Mrs Huber] 4 leaves. Signed HM

1818. 30 September. To [‘Sir’?] 4 leaves. Signed HM

1818. November – franked. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Finished and signed in pencil

1818. 18 November. To: Zachary Macaulay. 2 leaves. Signed HM

[1819].  To: Mrs Macaulay. 4 leaves, black border. Signed HM

1819. 22 July. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1819]. 24 August. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1819. 23 October – franked in black border. To: [Mrs Walmsley] 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1819]. 18 November. To: Mr & Mrs Huber. 7 pages, black borders. Signed HM. Refers to death of Patty More, 1819.

[1820]. To: ‘My dear friend’ 4 leaves incomplete

[1820]. To: ‘My dear Friend’ 4 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 11 January. To: Mr & Mrs Huber, Geneva. 5 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 2 February – franked. To: Zachary Macaulay. 1 leaf. Signed HM

1820. [14?] February – franked. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 24 May – franked, To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 27 May – franked. To: Zachary Macaulay. 1 side incomplete.

[1820 June]. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM. With newspaper cutting of Macaulay’s tombstone pasted in

[1820 June?]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 9 July – franked. To: Mr & Mrs Huber. 7 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 9 December 1820 – franked. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves.  Signed HM

[1821]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 2 leaves incomplete.

[1821. 15? January – franked] To: Z Macaulay. 2 leaves. Signed?

1821. 31 March. To: Mr & Mrs Huber. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1821. 23 May. Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1821. 17 November – franked. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1823. 24 January. To: Mr & Mrs Huber, Geneva 6 leaves. Signed HM

[1826. 4 February]. To: [Z Macaulay]. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1826. March]. To: ‘My dear Friends’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1827. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1827]. To: Z Macaulay. 6 leaves. Signed HM

1827. 8 September – franked. To: Z Macaulay. 4 pages. Signed

Hannah More: Undated Letters

[n d]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[n d]. To: Mr & Mrs Huber. 4 leaves incomplete

[n d]. To: James Stephen, 4 leaves. Signed HM

[n d]. To: Mr M[acaulay] 6 leaves. Signed HM

13 July.  To: Mr Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

19 September [?]. To: Alexander Knox. 4 leaves incomplete

29 September. To: [?] 4 leaves incomplete. Copy by HM? incomplete. Concerns the milk woman

[n d]. A signed but undated fragment. 4 leaves cut away and defective. Signed HM.

Pocket Book

A small pocket book of c.80 pages, beginning 1794, containing various religious thoughts, &c. in diary form.  Some pages torn away and defective.

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Letters from Ann Kennicott to Hannah More

[1777]. 4 January. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott. Refers to American War of Independence

1779. 9 February. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1781. 2 August. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1783]. 1 December. 7 leaves? Signed A Kennicott

1784. 7 February (or 18 June). 2 leaves cut away and further defective leaves.

[1790].14 January. 2 leaves incomplete with defective pieces attached.  [Attached to] 19 July, below.

[1790 or 1787]. 1 March. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1790]. 19 July. 6 leaves. Signed A Kennicott. [Attached to]

14 January [1790] above.

1791. 26 September. 7 leaves. Signed A Kennicott [Attached to]

November [1795?] below.

[1792?]. 24 August. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1795?]. 2 November. 2 leaves incomplete. [Attached to]

26 September 1791, above.

1807. 3 June. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1807]. 6 July. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1808]. 26 January. 5 leaves. Signed A Kennicott.

[1808 or 1809]. 6 September. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1809. 12 January. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1809. 25 March – franked. 3 leaves on lined paper, slightly defective. Signed A Kennicott

[1810]. 2 leaves incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

[1810]. 15 November. 4 leaves (2 cut away). Signed A Kennicott

[1811]. 1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

[1811]. 1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

1811. 29 April – franked. 1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

1812. 16 December. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1813. 7 June – franked. 3 leaves. Not signed A Kennicott

[1814]. 28 January. 3 leaves (torn). Signed A Kennicott  [Stitched to]

[1814]. 25 February. 3 leaves (final defective). Signed A Kennicott 1814

[1814]. 2 October. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1815]. 1 April 2 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1825]. 13 April. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

January. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

2 January. 4 leaves unfinished

20 January. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

7 February. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

8 February. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

11 February. 4 leaves unfinished

13 February. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

15 February. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

 5 March. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

12 March. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

16 March. 5 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

17 March [?]. 3 leaves on lined paper. Signed A Kennicott

20 March. 2 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

26 March. 4 leaves unfinished

3 April. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

7 April [?]. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

8 April [?]. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott. Bishop Porteous still alive (he died 1808)

10 April. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1 May. 2 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

7 May. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

17 May. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

6 June. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

8 June. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

2 June. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

7 July. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

13 July. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

13 July (bis). 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

14 July. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

15 July [?]. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

17 July. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

30 July. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

31 July. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

12 September. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

16 September [?].1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

17 September. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

23 September. 6 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

23 September (bis). 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

28 September. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

30 September. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1 October. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

7 October. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

12 October. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

25 October. 5 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

16 November. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

24 November. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

27 November. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1 December. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

10 December [?]. 2 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

15 December. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

26 December. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[nd]. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott.  ‘… I have sent my stays to the mantua makers, and I expect to be quite in shape when my gown is made to fit them …’

[nd]. 6 leaves. Signed  A Kennicott. After the death of her husband, 1783

[nd]. 1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott. Cowslip Green mentioned, ie 1784-1802

[nd]. ‘Of Visits’. 4 leaves. Incomplete? [Probably by A Kennicott]

[nd, but c.1783]. Character of Dr Kennicott. 4 leaves folio – last leaf torn across. Unsigned.     Probably by A Kennicott?

Letters from other correspondents

[1799]. 2 April. From F Nichol (?) 4 leaves. Signed

1810. 3 August. From T H Gallander (?) of Hartford, Connecticut. 4 leaves. Signed

1813. 7-10 January. From Jane West, of West Springfield, Massachusetts. 4 leaves. Signed Jane West

1813. 10 September. From James Stephen. 4 leaves. Signed James Stephen

1815. 14 February. From [Henrietta Maria?] Bowdler to H More. 3 leaves. Signed

1820. June 23. From Lord Teignmouth. 3 leaves. Signed Teignmouth

1820. 2 July. From Jane West, of West Springfield, Massachusetts. 4 leaves. Signed Jane West

1820. 26 July. From James Stephen. 6 leaves. Signed J Stephen

1829. 24 February. From Jane West, of West Springfield, Massachusetts. 4 leaves.   Signed Jane West. 13 November. 4 leaves incomplete, nd, presumably to H. More?

[nd]. ‘Respected Madam’. Cavendish Square, [London], 27 April [–] 4 leaves incomplete. Refers to ‘Cheap Repository Tracts’ (1794-)

Other Letters

1782. 7 November. From Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester to Mrs Boscawen. 3 leaves. Signed J Tucker

1806. 2 April. From Martha More to Countess Waldegrave. 4 leaves. Signed Martha More A number of defective, undated, unsigned and mutilated leaves

Letters to and from Hannah More

1 page letter from Hannah More to Cadell her publisher regarding attendance at her play (Percy?) addressed from Hampton, Garrick’s house. nd  [1778?].

1 page four quatrain adulatory poem.  David Garrick to Hannah More, dated November 23, 1778.  From Hannah More’s Book of Fame.

2 page six quatrain adulatory poem.  David Garrick to Hannah More, nd [1770s].  From Hannah More’s Book of Fame.

Appointment card signed by David Garrick to Hannah More, nd [1774].  On address panel, she writes “1774’ twas the first!”  Presumably, referring to their first encounter. From Hannah More’s Book of Fame.

One page poem “Hannah More” written by Robert Lowth, Bishop of London. February 16, 1781.  From Hannah More’s Book of Fame.

A Transcription of the above in Latin and English (2 pages) by Benjamin Kennicott, February 16, 1781.  Kennicott was the noted Hebrew scholar.

2 pages of letter from Hannah More to W W Pepys, nd (1785), containing references to Rousseau’s “Emile”.

4 page letter Hannah More to Mrs George Wilsingham, December 1, 1786.

4 page letter Hannah More to Mrs George Wilsingham, July 23, 1788.

2 page letter Hannah More to Mrs Stokes, nd, apparently late 1780s or early 1790s.

1 page letter probably to John Wilmot, referring to a contribution for the benefit of emigrant French clergy from the profits of her pamphlet “Remarks on the Speech of M Dupont_____”. July 18, 1793.

1 page letter Thomas Bere to G P Seymour relating to the Blagdon Controversy, November 3, 1800.  (Tipped into volume in clamshell box labelled Blagdon Controversy Pamphlets).

2½ page letter Hannah More to Cadell and Davies her publishers, referring in part to the Blagdon Controversy, nd (1801).

1 page invite Hannah More to Samuel Lysons for tea, nd (1801,1802).

1 page letter Hannah More to Cadell and Davies, November 1, 1804.  Refers to “Hints on the education of a princess, etc.”

3 page letter Hannah More to unknown lady giving details of anniversary celebrations for Cheddar Club and citing Cowper. June10 (1806 – watermark).

1½ page letter Hannah More to Robert Forster?  January 25 (1806? postmark).

2 page letter Hannah More to John Frowd, April 5, 1809.  Refers to “Coelebs”.

1¼ page verse letter Hannah More to William Perry on the occasion of his marriage.  Contains six four-line stanzas.

4½ page letter Hannah More to Lord Radstock.  Refers to the Cheap Repository Tracts, February 6 (1811?).

3 page letter Hannah More to unknown man, January 5, 1814.

3½  page letter Hannah More to unknown lady.  Refers to her book on St Paul. (March 10 (1815?).

2½ page letter Hannah More to Sir Thomas D Acland referring in part to Bonaparte, March 29, 1815.

2 page letter Hannah More to Mr Harford inviting the recipient to speak at the Wrington Bible meeting, nd (1815?)

2½  page letter Hannah More to Miss Thomaston, nd (1815).

3½  page letter Hannah More to Dr Valpy. June 5, 1816. Extending condolences.

1 page letter Hannah More to Mr Bulgin (1818?). Bulgin was her business representative from time to time.

3 page letter Hannah More to Cadell and Davies.  Mentions “Moral Sketches” – lists 60 or so names to be recipients of presentation copies. Postmarked 1819.

3 page letter Lord Sidmouth to Hannah More, August 31, 1819.  Praises “Moral Sketches”.

5 page letter Hugh Nicholas Pearson to Hannah More,October 13, 1819.  Condolences on the death of her sister. Praises “Moral Sketches”.

3 page letter Martha More to William Davies (publisher), December 1 (1819).  Recounts Hannah More’s accident at the time of publication of “Moral Sketches”.

4 page letter Hannah More to unknown recipient. Refers to Young T B Macaulay. nd (1819?).

2½  page letter Hannah More to Charles Warne, November 17, 1819.

4 page letter Hugh [Nicholas] Pearson to Hannah More, February 11, 1820.

1 page letter Hannah More to Thos Cadell, December 4, 1820.

1 page letter Hannah More to her publisher regarding “Bible Rhymes” (1821).

1 page letter Hannah More to Mrs. Jones.

3 page letter Hannah More to T Cadell dated July 16, 1822. Mentions several of her works.

2 page letter Hannah More to unknown recipient, nd (1820s). Possibly to her publisher.

Engraved portrait of Hannah More by Pickersgill, engr  Worthington March 1824, inscribed in large hand by HM “The portrait of Hannah More Her Autograph May 5th 1924”.  Dusty. Laid down on linen on a wooden stretcher.

3 page letter Hannah More to Sir Thomas Dyke Acland mentioning the deaths of a few friends and complaining about work, January 9, 1826.

2 page letter Hannah More to Sir Robert Peel dated May 6, 1826, with notations by Peel’s secretary for reply.

A pencil drawing of Barley Wood, inscribed at bottom “A faithful portrait of my cottage of Barley Wood.  Hannah More.  October 20, 1826.”

2 page letter Hannah More to Joseph Cottle regarding the review of the works of two well-known divines of the times, nd.

2 page letter Hannah More to Joseph Cottle regarding business matters, n d (watermarked 1827).

1½ page religious manuscript, July 1827. Presumably given to avisitor to Barley Wood.

Portion of 1 page of a letter Hannah More to Sir Thomas Ackland mentioning her diminished need for servants, having departed Barley Wood for a townhouse in Bristol, nd, postmarked September 3, 1828.

4 page letter Hugh [Nicholas] Pearson to Hannah More, June 25, 1821.

An ink drawing of Hannah More’s room at Barley Wood said to picture her with William Wilberforce.  Inscribed by Hannah More on verso “Mrs Hannah More’s room at Barley Wood.  1828 April”.  She moved to Bristol on April 18, 1828.

1 page invitation note to Miss Fords with Miss Ford’s note indicating results of the visit. (1830).

Hand colored print of Hannah More’s home, Barley Wood Portrait of Hannah More. Engraved by [ E Scrivan?] as a young woman (nd)

Engraved portrait of Hannah More from the original painting by H W Pickersgill, 1872?

News clippings of Hannah More’s Centenary Bibliography of Hannah More in The Mirror, 1833.

Hannah More her first introduction to Doctor Johnson. nd unknown writer, small slip of paper.

Two engraved frontispieces of Hannah More.

Blue Stocking Manuscripts

Elizabeth Montagu. Letter ‘written to my Grandfather’.

Elizabeth Montagu. Bath. April 2, 1748. Letter to the Duchess of Portland.

Hester Chapone, Autograph letter signed 27 February 1769 to Rev Richard Price (1723-1791), writer on morals, politics and economics.

Reminiscencies, 1827  -  Notebook and Transcription

‘Reminiscencies’. A 37-page manuscript notebook apparently in Hannah More’s hand containing table talk, conversations of visitors to Barley Wood and anecdotes about Johnson, Mrs Garrick, Lord Moboddo, the Duke of Clarence, etc.  Final 14 pages are used for transcribing quotations.  January and February 1827.  Contained in original marbled wrappers.  Notwithstanding the note by C B Pigot on the cover, this cannot be in Patty More’s hand, as she had died in 1819.

Transcript of ‘Reminiscencies’ by Janice Devereux

[NB the frequent emendations in the Notebook are written in superscript and are preceded by a caret (except those I have noted); some appear to be in different ink. I have transcribed the emendations in italics for the sake of convenience and clarity.  Where there is some uncertainty about the legibility of a word I have transcribed it in curly brackets.] – Janice Devereux

REMINISCENCIES

Hannah More’s Notebook (1827)

Sir Richd Hill -

Mrs H More in conversation respecting this eccentric Character told us that he was a remarkably polite elegant gentleman in manners & address - she said she had often been surprised to hear of the very splendid Table which he kept, his entertainments being frequently such as might come under the description of pompous – Rowland Hill visited our dear Friend more than once at an advanced period of both their lives - she was very agreeably surprised at his mild quiet deportment, & rational conversation; & at the great value which he put upon character, which she would have expected him to have too much set at nought - but he expressed himself as regarding it of very high importance on the score of its being so necessary to usefulness –

Mrs - Garrick - Mrs H - M - in speaking of her told us she often went to the Protestant Churches when in the Country, & had one of our Prayerbooks constantly by her, the prayers in which she very much admired & commonly used & she had several times expressed her regret that she had not been born in a Protestant Country for then she should have been of the Religion but that she thought it right to continue in the Religion in which we were born!  Altho’ she was a woman of such correct & elegant taste in dress, that Ladies of the highest Rank would sometimes request her to come & look at them when drest [sic] for Court that she might rectify anything that was amiss, by her judgement, yet she did not by any means make her own dress a matter of any importance but on the contrary was very indifferent to it; Dr Johnson who was sometimes more observant of these matters than would be supposed, once gave it as a test that  Mrs G - was a very good drapery that people did not remark what she had on, meaning that everything was in such good keeping as to prevent any part of her attire from being too prominent –

Ld Monboddo was a great admirer of Mrs Garrick; in one of his Visits to Hampton, after walking with him round the Grounds she asked him if he did not think them very complete to which he replied that it was a perfect Paradise, & that it only wanted an Adam; this speech amused her much because the speaker was ignorant that her Xtian name was Eve; & what gave more point to this Anecdote is, that Ld M - made a Matrimonial proposal to Mrs G –

Mrs - Carter - We heard Mrs H - More tell an Anecdote which displayed the integrity of this Ladys [sic] way of thinking & her abhorrence of the fatal doctrine of expediency - A practice was discussed which {militated} against her notions of what was perfectly just fair & upright, & it had been urged in vindication, that it was necessary for the support of the Constitution of the Country to resort to it - upon which she exclaimed with unusual annimation  [sic] “Perish the Constitution then! If it cannot be maintained without a breach of public integrity! [no closing quote marks]

See Boswell’s Johnson vol II 430.

 Jany 12th 1827 Mr Hodgson called, & gave Mrs - H - More a very interesting account of a Visit from Dr Woodbridge ( a very able skilful instructor of the Deaf & Dumb) to the Asylum for those unfortunate Persons at Birmingham; He first delivered a sermon to them in their language (that of Signs) the subjects of which were made perfectly intelligible by him both to his Deaf & Dumb Auditors & those who possessed the faculties of speech & hearing ; he treated of the Sin of Adam - human depravity, the atonement of Xt [ Christ] by which Sinners were reconciled to God, of Repentance & Faith by which we were brought to be partakers of the Salvation wrought out for us by the atonements [sic] of the Saviour - & Afterwards offered up a Prayer which he made especially  intelligible both to those who had no other organs [sic] than that of sight, & those who were accustomed to receive communications by the common channel - They all found the Prayer to consist of adoration & praise, confession of unworthiness, supplication for pardon thro’ a crucified Saviour, for the Grace of the holy Spirit to amend the [sic] life, & of intercession –

Jany 13th a very agreeable Scottish Lady a Mrs Cooke from the East Indies called, a very intimate friend & relation of the McGregors, who told us, that there was such an eager desire to possess Mrs H - More’s four sweet lines to little John McGregor the Infant so wonderfully & mercifully preserved in the {Hunt} & then two years old that Mrs McGregor had had serious thoughts of having them lithographized [sic] & sold at a Table at the Bazaar in Edinburgh for the distressed Manufacturers at Paisley, the little boy being placed at the Table as the {Nominal} Seller, had not the extreme heat of the Weather made her fearful of the consequences to the Child of remaining in so crowded an Assembly –

Jany 16th

Mrs H More told us in conversation this Eveng [evening] - that her oldest Sister remembered the circumstances of her Father’s sending a Present of Potatoes to his Friends in Norfolk from Bristol, & receiving with their thanks an engraving of how they were to be prepared for the Table, so comparatively Modern is the general use of that Vegetable –

Today Mr Ogilvie called & spoke a great deal of Blanco White recently admitted by Diploma to the degree of Mast Oxford where he has determined to establish his future Residence at Orielleoll [sic]: Mr O brought a very gratifying Message from him to Mrs - H - More, to whose works he professes to be very importantly indebted – B.  White nobly resolves to refuse all Church preferment lest his motive for embracing the Protestant Religion should be brought into suspicion.  Mr O says his manners are very bland and amicable & his conversation both entertaining & informing - he related a remarkably [sic] instance to him of the grievance of the Spanish Priests - Blanco White was requested by the Bible Society to look over & revise a Spanish Translation which had been finished of the New Testament; & the Priest above alluded to having called upon him, he asked him (knowing it was in vain to expect him to read the Original Greek) to read the Spanish Translation Verse by Verse while he read the corresponding Verse in the Greek, in order to detect the errors & disagreements of the former, which having done for some time he asked Blanco whether the Greek Testament which he was reading was the Septuagint Translation. –

Jany 20th Mr Sandford told us during a Visit he made this morning an Anecdote of the Duke of Clarence, which was very descriptive of his Manners - When he was employed in the Sea Service, he was stationed for a short time on the Coast of Ireland, & was of course invited & fêted with great respect by the Neighbouring Gentry; at one of these entertainments given to him by the officers An old General Genl Patterson was present on whom the Duke thought fit to play off some coarse raillery on the old fashioned cut of his Regimentals which had perhaps as a public uniform a little survived their first gloss of newness, trusting to his privilege of not being answered in the same familiar strain, at length the Genl – calmly rose from his seat & took his hat, upon which the Duke in some consternation called to him & asked him why he was preparing to leave them “ Sir” (replied the Officer) I am an old Genl  & I have therefore learnt when I can’t fight to make good my retreat  - The Duke apologised & the Genl then resumed his seat

Mrs - H More was repeating Dr Johnson’s eulogium upon Glass which he said was the most elegant of all inventions, & which the Romans wanted [i.e. lacked] amidst all their luxury & splendour - & “ as a consummation of its valuable qualities it has been made the blessed means (added he) of furnishing subsiduary light”!

He Mentioned having received a visit formerly from Southey when he was a very young man in the bloom of great personal beauty. Vanity & presumption had not then in his mind [no caret inserted] been corrected by his more mature judgement; for upon his speaking to him of Milton with that admiration which all must feel who are capable of tasting the charms of true poetry, he replied that he did not fear being able to write a poem which should make Milton forgotten in six months!

She told us that in conversation with Paley whom she had met in the time of her mixing in Society, he was speaking of his first removal into the Residence attached to his golden Prebend, in which he succeeded Dr Egerton, “I found says he a most magnificent house, with provision for every convenience & luxury except that there was not a place to put a book in, as might be expected indeed, he added coming after a Nobleman! [no closing quote marks]

The conversations reported of the Duke of Clarence during the illness of the late Duke of York, are of the most injudicious unfeeling & revolting nature; a Gentleman wrote to Mrs H More amongst other disgusting Anecdotes that the Duke took at a dinner party occasion while his brother was on his deathbed to boast of the extraordinary strength of his constitution which he said promised that he should live to the age of 90 – A Gentleman resolved to lower his confidence answered “ I will but your Rl Highss [ Royal Highness] that [sic] you will not live three years” - “ How so?” replied the Duke with haste & surprise; “because”, said the Gentleman, “I have been reading a great deal lately upon calculations respecting the Insurance of lives, & I find that the life of a person your Rl Highss’s Age is not worth more than a Year & a half’s purchase” - The Duke’s presumption seemed to be completely damped  [sic] by this reprimand –

Jany – 29th

Mr Jarret of Wellington speaking of Wolfe during a Visit this morning said he had once been in a house with him which was large & full of guests, & that he never could find his own room but constantly blundered into that of another - & that during the Year he was at Cambridge he never could find out the right way to Mr Simeon’s Rooms [.] Altho [sic] he went there almost every day – so that tho’ [sic] he could find his way all over the world he could not find it to his own room or to a Residence a quarter of a mile from him –

Mrs H More told us this evening in Conversation that on one of her visits to Hammoon Madhouse to see poor Louisa or the Maid of the Haystack, whilst waiting alone in a parlour, a tall wan looking man came into the room & shutting the door after him seated himself by her on the sofa to her very great dismay; he then pulled a small book out of his pocket printed in the black letter nearly 200 Years before & showed her in which it was foretold that about the time in which they then were “ the Kingly Power should be lost but not the Kingly life” - The King was at that time under coercion in a state of derangement - she could not help (notwithstanding her dread at being so near an insane person & alone) being extremely surprised at seeing with her own eyes a prediction in a book of so early a date which this melancholy event appeared so exactly to fulfil [.]  She said that when she visited the same poor Maniac (Louisa) at St Lukes, she was persuaded to go over the house, & was so extremely affected by it that she was obliged to put off an engagement she had for the next day, & for two or three days she could not recover her spirits but was continually in tears

Ld Orford remarked to her of the Popes that all the Innocents were remarked for their violence & cruelty, & that the Leos were comparatively mild so that their names went by contraries, & I daresay ( said he) that if I were made Pope I should be Pope Boniface he was of a remarkably lean Quixotic figure –

he mentioned in speaking of Garrick that having been for some time worried by the ove[r]tures for strict intimacy by a family who had settled in his Neighbourhood chiefly with that View, but whose habits were the reverse of refined or literary, he fairly said to the head of it (Mr Roffey) “let us come to an explanation) [sic] I cannot play at Cards, & you cannot play at Books. We therefore do not suit each other so let us be good civil [no caret inserted] neighbours, without exchanging visits –

Mrs H More said when she went first to Town the two grand wishes of her heart were to see Goldsmith & Littleton [Lyttleton] & that they both died just about the very time of her arrival –

The Grandmother of Mrs H More who lived nearly to the age of 90, while her father’s life was prolonged to 88 years, was born at the time of the Fire of London AD 1666 -

Feby 2d

Mrs Godfrey of Suffolk called this Morning; she told us two extraordinary Anecdotes of Seceding Predestinarians - The one was of a Mr - C - who pointing to two of his Children said to a Friend “those two are heirs of Salvation, they are safe their lot is to be blessed, but those others” he added with equal calmness [no opening quote marks] are predestinated [sic] to eternal damnation”[.]  The other Anecdote was of a Farmer to whom a gentleman applied, requesting him to interfere with some of his labourers whom he had frequently observed to treat the animals about whom they were employed with savage barbarity, but the answer he received was “God gave them a wicked heart I have nothing to do with it, you must take it to God & not to me”!

Feby 5th Dear Mrs H More took peculiar pleasure in provising [sic] for this Neighbourhood the important spiritual advantage of hearing two Sermons from that pious Holy Servant of God Danl [Daniel] Wilson - his prayers & expositions at the Family devotions were most clear simple & animating - He told us in conversation [no caret inserted] that Voltaire left it in his Will that a Bust should be made of him & dedicated to his Memory 50 years after his decease - that period will be completed next year but two Monuments are erected at Ferney under the patronage of the B [i.e. Baronness] de Staël & the Duchesse de Broglie calculated (it is trusted) to obliterate the mischievous recollections accompanying his name – A Bible Association & a Protestant Church - Voltaire, when building the Church which he erected from Vanity & other as unworthy motives said he would dedicate his Church to the Master & not to the Valets - Alluding to the custom of Naming the Churches after Saints - Mr Wilson in speaking of Robt Hall whose talents he held in the very highest estimation, lamented his republican turn & that he should take upon him to defend Olivr Cromwell –

Feby 9th in easy conversation after dinner today she remarked upon the unconscious exaggerations which were universal & said nobody had ever seen a small Spider, or a small Rat or a Small [sic] toad & she observed to a Friend who habituated herself to strange rather exaggerated expressions “ My dear Ann, Your pink is always scarlet” “Don’t Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters”[ .]  Johnsons life [ vol.] I 322

See papers on the use of {interpretation} 26th Obs. [i.e.The Observer] {for} 1811.  [NB the above line is inserted in different ink and has no closing bracket]

In speaking of Johnsons peculiarities of manner she described his way of asking to be helped to any dish at Table, he would often say with solemnity of voice, “I will beg as much of that pudding as is consistent with the Wants of others” - And when he had partaken of a more elegant table than usual, he would say in a tone of gravity mixed with satisfaction - “I have dined liberally today”.

Speaking of the force of habit, she lamented that the elegant friend of Sir Joshua Reynolds so replete with information & literature & taste, was not proof against its influence, he having been persuaded on the plea of his deafness to join occasionally in a family rubber at Whist till at length he contracted such an habitual liking to Cards that he could not spend an evening comfortably without them.  This however was quite in the latter pat of his life –

Mrs H More & Mrs Kennicott always went with Bh [Bishop] Porteous to hear his Lent Lectures at St James’s & after Church was over he used to come to them to carry them back saying where are my devout & honourable women?Feby 10th The Bishop of Litchfield [sic] spent two hours here today, he was extremely pleasant & communicative; he told us that the Bishop of Lincoln had 1400 Livings in his Gifts –

Feby14th Miss {Henney} authoress of Letters on Prejudice called; she told us that the poor Irish were persuaded by their Teachers that the Bible was written by Henry 8th & Luther.  The Abbess of the Convent at Cannington in Somersetshire, is daughter to Ld Clifford Steward, & his Lordship has already obliged one of his daughters, & proposes to compel the other two to take the Veil there –

Mrs H - More said in conversation to a friend that energy was the Soul of Life - quiet Spirits would carry on great Works but Enthusiasts are the founders of them -

An Officer in the Dragoons to whom Sir Jas [James] Stonehouse {Stonhouse} read an Infidel publication, said to him with solemn earnestness, are you very sure that our Religion is false - because if you are not [,] consider - this unsuspected appeal so struck upon his conscience that he was induced to burn the Manuscript immediately –

Mrs H More’s Grandfather who lived at Harlstone in Norfolk sheltered & lodged a Nonconformist Minister in his house for a Year or two, & computed that the charge of [no caret inserted] keeping of this Minister in his house amounted to ten pounds annually -  The Wife of this gentleman was a woman of a very strong Mind & possessed great decision & firmness of character, one of the family anecdotes which were Preserved of her, is that being subject to frequent & sudden attacks of pleurisy & being distant three miles from medical aid, she learnt to bleed, in order to perform this operation upon herself  - She had two children, the father of Mrs Hanh More - & a daughter named Hannah, Who was placed at the best School which the Country afforded & was a woman of very considerable & polished manners [.] She married & had several descendants.

INDEX

Sir Richd Hill Richard Hill (1732-1808) – MP for Shropshire, champion of Calvinistic Methodists & supporter of the British & Foreign Bible Society; see Dictionary of National Biography

Rowland Hill (1744-1833), younger brother of Richard, first chairman of the Committee of the Religious Tract Society, also promoter of the British & Foreign Bible Society & the London Missionary Society; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mrs Garrick – Eva Marie Violetti (1724-1822), dancer (at the Haymarket), b. Vienna; domiciled in London 1746; m. David Garrick (actor) 1749; see Dictionary of National Biography

Dr Johnson – Samuel Johnson (1709-84), English writer & translator & compiler of the Dictionary, 1747-55; see Oxford Companion to English Literature

Lord Monboddo – James Burnett (1714-99), Scottish judge; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mrs Carter - Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), poet & miscellaneous writer; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mr Hodgson – possibly John Hodgson (1779-1845), antiquary; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mr Ogilvie – Charles Atmore Ogilvie (1793-1873), theologian (close friend of Blanco White); see Dictionary of National Biography

Blanco White – Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841), theological writer (b. Seville; emigrated to England 1810); converted to Church of England & qualified as English cleric 1814; see Dictionary of National Biography

Duke of Clarence – William Henry (3rd son of George III) (1765-1837), later William IV; see Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Southey – Robert Southey (1774-1845), poet, historian & miscellaneous writer; see Dictionary of National Biography

Paley – William Paley (1743-1805), Archdeacon of Carlisle; see Dictionary of National Biography

Dr Egerton – John Egerton (1721-87), Bishop of Durham; see Dictionary of National Biography

Duke of York – Frederick (2nd son of George III) (1763-1827)

Wolfe – Major-General James Wolfe (1727-59); see Dictionary of National Biography

Mr Simeon – Charles Simeon (1759-1836), divine & vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge; see Dictionary of National Biography

the King - reference to George William Frederick (1738-1820), King of England; see Dictionary of National Biography

Lord Orford – Horatio Walpole (1717-97), Earl of Orford, author, letter-writer, private-printer & wit; see Dictionary of National Biography

Garrick – David Garrick (1717-79), actor; see Dictionary of National Biography

Goldsmith – Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74) playwright; see Oxford Companion to English Literature

Littleton – George Lyttelton (1709-73), first Baron of Lyttleton, scholar, writer & politician; privy councillor, Chancellor of the Exchequer & later an active member of the House of Lords; see Dictionary of National Biography

Danl Wilson - Daniel Wilson (1778-1858), evangelical preacher, writer & later 5th Bishop of Calcutta; see Dictionary of National Biography

Voltaire – Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), poet, historian & philosopher; see Oxford Companion to French Literature

B de Staël – Baroness Ann-Louise-Germaine de Staël (1766-1817); see Oxford Companion to French Literature

Duchesse de Broglie – Albertine - Ida Gustavine de Staël (1797-1838), Duchess of Broglie (daughter of Baroness Ann-Louise-Germaine de Staël; m. duc Victor de Broglie (1785-1870) in 1814); see Oxford Companion to French literature & Nouvelle Biographie Générale

Robt Hall – Robert Hall (1764-1831), baptist divine, noted for his pulpit oratory; see Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the Protector; see Dictionary of National Biography

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), English portrait-painter; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mrs Kennicott – Ann Kennicott (d.1830), letter-writer; m. Dr Benjamin [sic] Kennicott (1718-83), biblical scholar, in 1771; see Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Bh Porteous – Beilby Porteous (1731-1808), Bishop of London; see Dictionary of National Biography

Sir Jas Stonehouse – Sir James Stonhouse [sic] (1716-95), divine, physician & writer; see Dictionary of National Biography

 As yet unidentified:

Dr Woodbridge (not listed in the DNB)

Mrs Cooke/little John McGregor

Mr Sandford

Genl Patterson - General Patterson (not listed in the DNB)

Mr Jarret

Louisa, the Maid of the Haystack

Mr Roffey

Mrs Godfrey of Suffolk

Ann

Bishop of Litchfield

Miss Henney

Ld Clifford Steward

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