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Rowland Hunter letter to Marianne Hunt, March 29, 1843

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Title	Rowland Hunter letter to Marianne Hunt, March 29, 1843
Creator	Hunter, Rowland
Date Original	1843-03-29
Description	Concerning his admittance to Charter house; his difficulty in legally proving his age.
Personal Name Subject	Hunter, Rowland Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1788-1857
Geographic Subject	England -- London
Chronological Subject	1840-1850
Type (DCMIType)	Text
Type (AAT)	Correspondence
Type (IMT)	jpeg
Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
Contributing Institution	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Archival Collection	Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection
Collection Guide	http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/resources/Brewer-LeighHunt.html
Location	bound MsL H945h leaf 28 (previous call number MsL H945h no. 5)
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. This letter is owned by The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Department, and is provided here for educational purposes. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the Special Collections Department.
Contact Information	Contact The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Department: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Height (cm)	23
Width (cm)	18.5
Number of Pages	4
Number of Sheets of Paper	1
Digitization Specifications	Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Archival tiff image available.
Date Digital	2009-02-18
Transcript	Charter House March 29. 1843 My dear Mary Anne I really feel ashamed that I have not called upon you or taken any notice of you for so long a time. As soon as I got my nomination to the Charter House, my time was taken up with processing several certificates which were necessary before I could be admitted. The one which gave me the greatest difficulty was to prove legally that I was fifty years of age. I was afraid that I would have to send /to Liverpool/ my old Family Bible to Liverpool to get my brother Samuel or my niece Anne, now Mrs. Foger Gaskell, to prove before /---/ a magistrate my father's handwriting in the Bible in which he has written the names & ages of all his children. [page break] But I luckily recollected that Mrs. Parry, sister of Mrs. Gurney was in town & she told me that she remembered playing with me when we were children sixty-five years ago. So a paper was made /---/ out by the solicitor to the Charter House giving an account of /her/ Mrs. Parry's parentage & relationship & age and of her remembering me 65 years since & we both went before Mr. Rawlinson the Magistrate and made a "Declaration" of the truth of the contents of the paper. This and many other matters prevented my getting into the House before the latter end of February. Nancy quitted Mrs. Edgeworth on hearing of my appointment & employed herself in measuring my room & buying druggets to cover the floor, sheets for my bed which she made herself, with pillow cases, curtains, towels, table cloth, etc., all which she insisted on making herself. [page break] I think that the confinement occasioned by this work, so contrary to what she had been accustomed to at Worton, where she was constantly compelled to go about to the neighbouring villages for any thing or nothing, in fine weather or rain or snow just as it might happen, has been the cause of the severe illness which she has been suffering from this last month. She has had two bilious attacks rather formidable & since that a /got/ good deal of fever. She is now better & I hope will be well enough & strong enough by the end of this week to go and see you & Mr. Hunt, which she is anxious to do. I have been of course tied by the leg, as they say, & I have not been able to quit her room, except when I was compelled by the rules of the Charter House to be there. So we both hope to see you in a few days, [page break] and I trust we shall find you pretty well at least as well as it is possible to be in your very anxious state of life . I heard lately from Betsey & she requested me to give her love to all her idle /---/ friends, meaning those who do not write to her. Japy was very well . My best regards to Mr. Hunt Henry Rosalind Vincent & Julia . Yours always very affectionately R. Hunter If you have occasion to write me, address Mr. Rowland Hunter Charter House London - my christian name at full length, as there may be here some one else of the name of Hunter possibly
Transcript By	Brewer, Luther
Transcript Location	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

Title	Page1
Relation - Is Part Of	Rowland Hunter letter to Marianne Hunt, Mar.29, 1843
Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
File Name	h945h-28_Page1.jpg
Transcript	Charter House March 29. 1843 My dear Mary Anne I really feel ashamed that I have not called upon you or taken any notice of you for so long a time. As soon as I got my nomination to the Charter House, my time was taken up with processing several certificates which were necessary before I could be admitted. The one which gave me the greatest difficulty was to prove legally that I was fifty years of age. I was afraid that I would have to send /to Liverpool/ my old Family Bible to Liverpool to get my brother Samuel or my niece Anne, now Mrs. Foger Gaskell, to prove before /---/ a magistrate my father's handwriting in the Bible in which he has written the names & ages of all his children.

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