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Autograph letter from Hannah More, [Holywell House, St. Albans], to Mrs. Pepys [manuscript], [1784 March].

More, Hannah, 1745-1833, sender.; Pepys, Elizabeth, approximately 1748-1830, addressee.
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Title
Autograph letter from Hannah More, [Holywell House, St. Albans], to Mrs. Pepys [manuscript], [1784 March].
Description
1 item (4 p.)
Associated name
More, Hannah, 1745-1833, sender.
Pepys, Elizabeth, approximately 1748-1830, addressee.
Summary
Note at top of letter: To Mrs. Pepys with a P[ai]r of Stockings. Dedicates the enclosed work [The bas blanc], the fruit of a few days leisure at St. Albans, to either of her little children. It is formed on the best precepts of the great masters of the Epopoeia. Provides a literay analysis of it. She is desirous to deposit it in the Pepys Collection, hoping that it may be found as useful as many a black letter manuscript of more recondite learning.
In
Collection of papers belonging to Eva Maria Garrick and her executor, Rev. Thomas Rackett,
Genre/form
Letters (correspondence)
Manuscripts (documents)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- St. Albans.

Call number
L.g.156
Folger accession
MS Add 969

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