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        <title type="main">William Hone to Dr. Charles West, 30 September, 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 an image of the original in Wellesley College Library, Special
          Collections, <title>Last Days of William Hone</title>, f. 14.</p>
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        <head>William Hone to <ref type="person" target="whoswho.html#WestCharles">Dr. Charles
            West</ref>, <date when="1840-09-30">30 September, 1840</date>.<anchor xml:id="citation"
            /><note resp="#KG" place="foot">Wellesley College Library, Special Collections,
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            <address>
              <addrLine><ref type="place">9 James Place,<lb/>
                  <hi rend="underline">near the Baptist Chapel,<lb/> Church Road</hi>,
                  Tottenham</ref></addrLine>
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            <salute>My dear Sir</salute>
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            <p>I acknowledge the &#163;5 on Saturday &#8212; I now acknowledge that it is <hi
                rend="underline">gone</hi>. Mrs. H has had numerous ways for it, &amp; we have no
              more. I have not received a shilling from anyone else. I anxiously look for your
              arrival, when I will re-explain as to Clowes, whose account is out of date. I never
              had it, &amp; nothing ought to have been said about it. It was for printing done in
              1829. This &amp; Gray's affair we will talk to you about &#8212; as well as
              Shepherd's.</p>
            <p>"Sixpence, &amp; that is borrowed"! Read Madame de Stael &#8212; she explains to me
              why it was not a shilling. You are to get <hi rend="underline">paid</hi> for brain
              sweat &#8212; not you! &#8212; not <hi rend="underline">yet</hi>.</p>
            <p>Before you come break into the Chambers of the late Mr. Secretary Black &amp; bring
              with you all the [one word] of the dear departed. Is there anything in existence
              memorializing his <hi rend="underline">Frail</hi>. How did he go off? with a squeal?
              was he reckless, or penitent? are his last words remembered before he was light
              headed? Did he howl to the last? or mutter audibly of Lord Langdale &amp; the Rounds?
              &#8212; Does the world speak of him handsomely? Is his hatchment hung up in the
              Chapel? Is his Elegy sold there on Saturdays? Does Mr Robert Fletcher wear mourning
              for him? Have you added weepers to your apparel?</p>
            
            
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            <date when="1840-09-30">1 October (was <hi rend="strikethrough">yesterday</hi> tomorrow)</date><lb/>
            God bless you my friend<lb/>
            <signed>W Hone</signed>
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            <p>[Addressed:]<lb/>
              Dr. West<lb/>
              40 Craven Street
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