William Hone to William Upcott, 19 June, 1822 An Electronic Edition William Hone Kyle Grimes

For publication in the Hone Correspondence section of the William Hone BioText, http://honearchive.org. The letter is published under a Creative Commons license, details of which are accessible from the BioText homepage.

Transcribed from an image supplied to me by Nicholas Seager in an email dated 14 September 2018. The original is in Yale Beinecke, Osborne MSS Files 7524.

 Began working on transcription--still needs correcting and transformation--now that is complete but the letter needs still to be published.
William Hone to William Upcott, 19 June, 1822. Yale Beinecke, Osborne MSS Files 7524. I would like to thank Nicholas Seager for alerting me to this letter.[return] — -TEI-
Ludgate hill
19 June 1822 My dear Sir

My correspondence with Mr. Cruikshank has been almost exclusively personal, and, as I intimated, I have no letters of his with his autograph, except of an entirely private nature - however I wrote him a note which has produced the enclosed - not without some effort on his part for he dislikes letter writing even more than I do. I was obliged to see the dog about it even after I wrote him for it.

I beg one favor of you which I hope if an opportunity occurs you will remember - that as I earnestly desire to possess the hand writing of honest Daniel De Foe, if you ever meet with a letter of his besides the two you already possess, and which you cruelly determine to keep for fix fashion, I beg you will secure it for me at any price you please - he was one of the only order of nobility on this earth for which I entertain any respect

I am My dear Sir Yours faithfully W Hone W. Upcott Esq.