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HALLAM
(Henry, 1777-1859, Historian)
Last two sides of an Autograph Letter Signed,
to an unnamed correspondent, thanking him for your congratulations on my niece's marriage. The connexion is a good one for her - being an old family in a heraldic sense; & also allied to the Miles's, Brights, & other Bristol grandees... He has a fair fortune, not a great one, but likely to improve - They are thoroughly attached to each other, & tho' he is far from her equal in conversation, perhaps it is generally better that the diamonds should not cut each other, with a P.S. saying the accounts of Bayley are far from good... Jennings (of St John's) went to see him, Bayley does not seem to think well of himself unlike on former occasions, 2 sides 8vo., no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1850
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Background
Although the Hallams were originally from Lincolnshire, the writer's father had been Dean of Bristol, and he himself married Maria Elton from Clevedon. Their son Arthur, the poet, died suddenly in 1833 while they were visiting Vienna, prompting his close friend Alfred Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'.
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