nav-imag.JPG (5508 bytes)An Index of Hone Correspondence,
1816

Index of correspondence in this file:

 

To: William Hone Date: 2 January 1816
From: J[ohn] B[orthwick] Gilchrist  Source:  Add. MS 40120, ff. 52-53
Contents:

Gilchrist is disappointed with the sales of his pamphlet; encourages Hone to advertise the work more aggressively.

 

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To: William Hone Date:  26 May, 1816
From: Ralph Rylance (Marylebone Infirmary) Source:  Ogden 73(2), 3
Contents:

Rylance is apparently in the infrimary, but beginning to get better.  Then: "Have the goodness to come and see me as soon as convenient, and meantime send your godsoon [sic] (your boy I mean) and let him call upon my mother No 27 Denmark Street Soho, and she will send me the Hebrew books and a store of tea coffee and cash."

 

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To: William Hone Date:  6 July, 1816
From: Major Cartwright Source:  Add. MS 40120, f. 54
Contents:

"I am sorry I cannot see you this evening, as I particularly wish to consult you on points & in a way not to be done at second hand, independently of the loss of time [occasioned ?]." Cartwright concludes by asking Hone to visit the next day.

 

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To: (various) Date:  30 October, 1816
From: William Hone (printed card) Source:  Add. MS, 40108 f. 146
Contents:

"W. HONE respectfully acquaints the TRADE, that he has taken a house, No. 67, Old Bailey, three doors from Ludgate Hill, where (instead of 55, Fleet-Street) their calls and orders for his present and forthcoming Publications will be punctually attended to.

October 30, 1816."

 

Notes:  

Since early 1814, Hone had been working from a small bookselling shop at 55 Fleet Street.  This shop remained open even as Hone opened this second shop at the Old Bailey address.

 

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To: William Hone Date:  9 November, 1816
From: Richard Wilbraham Ford Source:  WSU, cont. 1, fol. 4
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To: Thomas Evans [the elder] Date:  13 December, 1816
From: William Hone Source:  Add. MS 50746, ff. 1-2
Contents:

"Sir

I am about publishing a Second Part of an Account of the Riots and as the newspapers noticed the handbill beginning Spence's Plan which handbill I mean to give I purposed taking an Extract from Christian Policy to [one word illegible] the plan. But it just occurs to me from your Son calling for the Returns this morning that you may not be desirous that the Plan should be thus publicly noticed at this juncture. If this be so as I am loth to give any one the least uneasiness an intimation to that effect will deter me from mentioning the Pamphlet."

 

Notes:

Hone's publication was an account of the Spa Fields Riots of 2 December 1816.  The letter demonstrates that Hone was well acquainted with--and sympathetic with--the radical Spencean Society, headed at this juncture by the two Thomas Evanses.

 

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