• Charlotte Malcolm to August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  • Place of Dispatch: Hyde Hall (Sawbridgeworth) GND · Place of Destination: London GND · Date: 1. November [1823]
Edition Status: Newly transcribed and labelled; double collated
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  • Sender: Charlotte Malcolm
  • Recipient: August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Place of Dispatch: Hyde Hall (Sawbridgeworth) GND
  • Place of Destination: London GND
  • Date: 1. November [1823]
  • Notations: Datum (Jahr) sowie Empfangsort erschlossen. – Datierung durch Schlegels Aufenthalt in London.
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  • Provider: Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
  • OAI Id: DE-1a-34292
  • Classification Number: Mscr.Dresd.e.90,XIX,Bd.15,Nr.17
  • Number of Pages: 4S. auf Doppelbl., hs. u. U.
  • Format: 22,1 x 18,6 cm
  • Incipit: „[1] I cannot tell you my dear Sir how very much I regretted not being able to see you this [...]“
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  • English
    Editors
  • Bürger, Thomas
  • Cook, Hermione
  • Varwig, Olivia
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[1] I cannot tell you my dear Sir how very much I regretted not being able to see you this morning before you left us, but I sincerely hope that I may have that pleasure when I go to Town next week. The very great pleasure & gratification that you have conferred by your visit here is beyond what I can attempt to express! May I hope [2] that the feeling has been sufficiently mutual to induce you to come amongst us again? It is too melancholy to think that a person we have known & esteemed so much will never visit us again, so that I am determined to banish all such reflections from my mind & give myself up to the pleasing hope of once more welcoming you under my own roof, I only wish I could promise that you should meet the most agreeable of those who are now with me, but alas! [3] Miss Manning will leave me! Not even the prospect of visiting the Rhine can I fear prevail on her to stay; when she could refuse you I am sure it would be vain for any other to attempt to shake her resolution Now I am sure you do not approve of such determined decision where to yield would be so graceful & give such pleasure to all here will you allow me to say that this is your opinion, for I do think if anything can move her it will be that.
I must say adieu! as my friend waits to convey this to you. I shall [4] be in London on Wednesday afternoon about half past four o’clock / at M:r Taylor’s 69 Portland Place, that will I fear be too late an hour for you to call upon me & I cannot fix any other till I reach Town when I will write to you again if you can come then or later upon that day I need not say how very happy I shall be to see you.
Believe me with the utmost truth
Your sincere friend
Ce. Malcolm
Hyde Hall
Nov:br 1:st
[1] I cannot tell you my dear Sir how very much I regretted not being able to see you this morning before you left us, but I sincerely hope that I may have that pleasure when I go to Town next week. The very great pleasure & gratification that you have conferred by your visit here is beyond what I can attempt to express! May I hope [2] that the feeling has been sufficiently mutual to induce you to come amongst us again? It is too melancholy to think that a person we have known & esteemed so much will never visit us again, so that I am determined to banish all such reflections from my mind & give myself up to the pleasing hope of once more welcoming you under my own roof, I only wish I could promise that you should meet the most agreeable of those who are now with me, but alas! [3] Miss Manning will leave me! Not even the prospect of visiting the Rhine can I fear prevail on her to stay; when she could refuse you I am sure it would be vain for any other to attempt to shake her resolution Now I am sure you do not approve of such determined decision where to yield would be so graceful & give such pleasure to all here will you allow me to say that this is your opinion, for I do think if anything can move her it will be that.
I must say adieu! as my friend waits to convey this to you. I shall [4] be in London on Wednesday afternoon about half past four o’clock / at M:r Taylor’s 69 Portland Place, that will I fear be too late an hour for you to call upon me & I cannot fix any other till I reach Town when I will write to you again if you can come then or later upon that day I need not say how very happy I shall be to see you.
Believe me with the utmost truth
Your sincere friend
Ce. Malcolm
Hyde Hall
Nov:br 1:st
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