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        <title type="main">William Hone to Dr. [Charles] West, 5 August, 1840</title>
        <title type="sub">An Electronic Edition</title>
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          <name key="Hone, William, 1780-1842">William Hone</name>
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        <p>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.</p>

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        <p>Transcribed from the original in Wellesley College Library, Special Collections,
            <title>Last Days of William Hone</title>, f. 4.</p>
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        <head>William Hone to <ref type="person" target="whoswho.html#WestCharles">Dr. Charles
          West</ref>, <date when="1840-08-05">5 August, 1840</date>.<anchor xml:id="citation"
            /><note resp="#KG" place="foot">Wellesley College Library, Special Collections,
              <title>Last Days of William Hone</title>, f. 4. In this letter Hone is clearly trying
            to account for his debts in preparation for the application to the Literary Fund (see
            letter to West dated 3 August, 1840). <ref target="#citation"> [return]</ref></note>
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              <addrLine><ref type="place">Richmond</ref></addrLine>
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            <date when="1840-08-05">5th August 1840</date>
            <salute>My dear Sir</salute>
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            <p>Night sleeps clear the memory. I recollect that I owe to Mr. Robert Fletcher, your
              coadjutor in friendship to me, Forty odd Pounds, lent to me in one season when I
              removed in the autumn of 1833 from Camberwell to Peckham. Can I be said to recollect
              what I had never forgotten, ever were present in memory, yet not remembered? Strange
              it may seem to you, who know not of a mind estranged from itself, realizing in the
              [two words] on the Broken lights of the world.</p>
            <p>Add too, &#163;5 due to Mr Samuel William, for [two words] engravings to a wild work,
              "Old Humphrey's Calendar" in 1829. I have not seen him since, [one word] except when
              he did some things, <hi rend="underline">I think</hi>, for my "History of the (<hi
                rend="underline">Last</hi>) French Revolution," the [one word] days of July, for Mr
              Tegg.</p>
            <p>Also add, debt due to Mr Clowes for printing the said "Calendar." I have no doubt
              that Mr. Clowes, &amp; Mr Williams, have forgotten, or forgiven, these debts to
              them.</p>
            <p>I also owe &#163;1 to Mr Samuel Dixon, Solicitor, [Minring?] Lane, money borrowed of
              him a few years ago. He wrote to me sternly for it, a year or two ago &#8212;
              supposing me rich, I answered I was not but [remind?] him payment when I had
              ability.</p>
            <p>This I believe closes all. I have wracked memory for more, to the utmost.</p>
            <p>Our walk for a sunset knocked me up &#8212; and a [one word] East Wind this morning
              has found me out.</p>
            
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          <closer>yours faithfully<lb/>
            <signed>W Hone</signed>
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            <p>[Addressed:]<lb/> Doctor West<lb/>
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                <addrLine>40 Craven Street</addrLine>
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                <addrLine>Strand</addrLine>
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