Letters from Anna Maria Hall
A file of six original letters from Anna Maria Hall, an Irish writer, editor, and philanthropist. The file includes a clipping of the original auction catalogue entry referring to the content of the letters. The entry reads ‘Autograph letters [from Hall] signed to Mrs. Smith, concerning her work; her health; her visit to [Thomas] Moore, the poet; her journey to Scotland, and her agreement with her publishers to write a volume “A month in the Highlands”, with 500 illustrations, etc. 25 pp., 12mo
Details
- Level of description
- File
- Date
- 1845-1850
- Reference
- 25
- Extent and medium
- 6 items; manuscript and printed
- Scope and content
- A file of six original letters from Anna Maria Hall, an Irish writer, editor, and philanthropist. The file includes a clipping of the original auction catalogue entry referring to the content of the letters. The entry reads ‘Autograph letters [from Hall] signed to Mrs. Smith, concerning her work; her health; her visit to [Thomas] Moore, the poet; her journey to Scotland, and her agreement with her publishers to write a volume “A month in the Highlands”, with 500 illustrations, etc. 25 pp., 12mo and 8vo. 1845-1850’.
- General note
- For biographical information on Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881) see https://www.dib.ie/biography/hall-anna-maria-a3719
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Autograph Letters and Historical Ephemera
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People, places, and terms identified via handwriting recognition and named entity recognition.
Sample passages
- My dear Mr Smith thanks for your very kind note - I am but too lovely to be obliged to write you, what I write other - that I cannot for a way - that I cannot for a way - that I wi…
- Smith Jamey that we are Pepcalers. - Pepcal I look upon as a sheer and most dangerous Insanity - impossible and destructive - but in every gray would I place the Human Catholic on…
- Artist & his brief leaves as next week - you would like them both if you knew them - the is quite what a Chrysoman brief should be - and you all think alike - which I see be do not…
Full Transcript (OCR, 2 pages)
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Saturday Evening Monday One The Poverty - My dear Mr Smith thanks for your very kind note - I am but too lovely to be obliged to write you, what I write other - that I cannot for a way - that I cannot for a way - that I will send you what I can to see me - some where I have known for years - and others where I should like to know - the voice I send to call upon them - lead me to say I will do so - and sometimes I accomplish my purpose by a harvest obvious - watching a stream calls of a humoristy - but more frequently by writing a note of History or sending a card - The old friend who has near me - do not expect me to call - those who do not know me well I fear sometimes take spence, and then because I cannot - I will not - but it is not so - Restoring but a most careful arrangement of time - enables me to perform my actual duties - and my absolute supplements - smears those with our publishers - after nine at night - between that & twelve - I sometimes so out either to friend - or the only amusant I fear you will be sorry to hear I enjoy - a good play on a person - but this patriarch me so much that I am so much pinched up - Wholesay I manage to have left to do - a broadening attended with rain in my thoroat after concealing - which I drease - I enjoying society and form good tastes - so that my die taste encreases together my die taste encreases for every thing - except my great wish - you brought this explanation and thank God my happy home - you brought this kind invitation - and I hope for you - as I am happy to send you to come & see me, as old friends do, without the orgular cutour - I shall rejoice - for when I look my duties honestly in the gaze - I fear - I know - I shall not be able to call on you before our return please - God from Sertland - a joinery - Where I drease - my brother in law - thanks your brother and your kind left for you Bransh Beauche - he is really a zealous worthy Man - I like both his rading and his Practicing - he is carneff and tone - though I do not in many Hangs as year I do not in many Hangs as year I guilt Poverness his uprightness & honesty of purpose - in a worldly point of view he is very well off at Newcastle - but he bought to be more storth - and I wish with all my heart he was was - you cannot My dear Mrs Smith Jamey that we are Pepcalers. - Pepcal I look upon as a sheer and most dangerous Insanity - impossible and destructive - but in every gray would I place the Human Catholic on an equality with the Potestant - if he expect him to obey the same laws he have no reason to drink him to biggt as ourselves. - My open of generation Jamey obliges me to honor our dear little suees - more than perhaps I ought to honor any more creature - so there we should be one - - and now God night - and god help you and yours - I have been writing a memory of your Hood I have been writing for most months but honour journal - and feel, what truly I deliver as much depression to biggt - so if my note is dull - blame the ord…
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