HANNAH MORE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 02/05/1828 - HFSID 73382
Price: $360.00
HANNAH MORE
The prominent religious and abolitionist writer asks a friend to
trade a twenty-pound note for four five-pound notes, signs name in black
ink
Autograph letter signed: "Hannah More" in faded black ink. 1
page, 4½x7½ folded. Addressed to Mr. John James, Esq. of Brighton. In
full: "Dear Sir, Can you be so good as to give me four five pound Bank of
England for £20 note? If you go to Bristol on Thursday may I take the liberty of
troubling you to bring me some money from Miles' Bank? Yours very
sincerely". Hannah More (1745-1833) was an English religious writer and
philanthropist; her career is said to consist of three reputations, a poet and
playwright in the Blue Stocking Society crowd of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Joshua
Reynolds, and David Garrick, a writer of religious and moral subjects, and as a
practical philanthropist. More, alongside her father and sisters, opened a
boarding school when she was in her teens, and she taught there as a young
women. After More suffered a heartbreaking end to an engagement, she focused on
her literary career, staging the play The Inflexible Captive
(1774) before her most successful work Percy: a Tradgedy in
1777, eventually quitting playwriting after the failure of her last work
The Fatal Falsehood (1779). In the 1790s More became involved
with a group of evangelical Christians known as the Clapham Sect, who were firm
opposes to slavery, and More began writing and editing religious tracts
(ballads, moral stories, and readings), composing such works as "Slavery, A
Poem" (1788). More, furthermore, worked alongside her sister Martha More to
campaign for the education of the poor, even opening more than a dozen Sunday
schools. Irregularly cut. Toned. Worn and soiled. Frayed and slightly torn from
adhesive. Otherwise, fine condition.
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