Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Viscount Hardinge to Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, 10 February 1835
Castle, Dublin,
February 10, 1835.
Dear Sir Charles,
I have had some correspondence with the
Treasury on your subject, and was in hopes to have induced them to
have made a more desirable arrangement, They adhere, however, to
that of their predecessors, and when I return to London, which I do
this day, you shall hear from me officially; the exact amount of
the retiring pension not having been as yet communicated. The
division shall be expedited without delay.
I hope Lady
Morgan enjoys the fine air of Cheltenham, and that
her unrivalled talents are employed in amusing and instructing all
classes and ages.
I am going to see Lady Clarke. I beg to offer my
best regards to Lady Morgan, and
am, my dear Sir Charles,
Yours very truly,
Lady Olivia Clarke [née Owenson] (1785 c.-1845)
The younger sister of Lady Morgan who married Dublin physician Sir Arthur Clarke
(1778-1857) in 1808. She wrote songs and a play, and published in the
Metropolitan Magazine and
Athenaeum.
Henry Hardinge, first viscount Hardinge (1785-1856)
After a distinguished career in the Napoleonic wars (in which he lost his left hand) he
served as Tory MP for Durham (1820-30), Newport (1830-34), and Launceston (1834-44); he was
secretary-at-war (1838-30) and governor-general of India (1844-48).
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.
