Handwritten Letter from Hannah More to Miss Mills

Hannah More (1745–1833) was an English poet, playwright, religious writer, social reformer, and anti-slavery activist. More wrote her first play in 1762 and continued to write poetry, plays, and tracts, which in her later years became more evangelical. This letter, written in 1815 to Miss Mills, references mostly domestic and local information. In it, More states that her sister, Martha, whom she referred to as “Patty,” was “in a very bad way.” More also writes of a recent visitor who knew fourteen languages, had spent two years at Cambridge, and was “appointed to the important work of revising [Claudius] Buchanan’s Syriac Testament.”