I was greatly mortified yesterday at finding you and
Sir Charles had called at Belfield,
and departed
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without asking for me. I was at home, and
should have been very much gratified indeed to have seen you and him, meaning
as you did such very kind things towards us. Of those kind intentions I most
cheerfully shall avail myself, and shall participate gladly in the hospitable
and spirituel gratifications which are always, I know,
of olden time, to be found with you and in the society which you select.
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1780-1843)
English physician and philosophical essayist who married the novelist Sydney Owenson in
1812; he was the author of Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals
(1822). He corresponded with Cyrus Redding.
Thomas Wallace (1766-1847)
Originally a journeyman weaver, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin became a
Dublin barrister and Queen's Counsel. He was a friend of Henry Grattan and Lady Morgan and
MP for Drogheda (1831-32) and Carlow (1832-35).
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Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859; Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880; Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879
Title:Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863).
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