HANNAH MORE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED CIRCA 1811 - HFSID 73124

HANNAH MORE
The eighteenth-century moralist writer sends her thanks in letter to a friend, signs name in black ink
Autograph letter signed: "H. More" in faded black ink. 1 page, 3¾x4½ folded. Addressed to Mrs. Cookson. In full: "Among, many thanks to Mr. Cookson and you for your respected, kind and very obliging attention. Indeed I have not had sufficiently to express my sense of obligations, for such favor, Believe me my dear Madison, your obliged". 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 Tradgedyin 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. Normal mailing folds. Toned. Slightly worn and soiled. Frayed and slightly torn from adhesive. Wax seal residue on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.