Hornblower to Edrington, May 1799

Author: Marna
Fandom: Hornblower
Rating: General
Categories: Serious fiction, Epistolary fiction
Date published: 2004-07-19 (also on LiveJournal)
Archive URL: http://scriptorium.infotrope.net/fiction/hhletter1.mhtml
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This work is part of the All the King's Men series:
ATKM Reading Guide; Consent; Major MacPherson's Ass; All the King's Men; Pellew to Edrington, May 1799; Edrington to Pellew, May 1799; Hornblower to Edrington, May 1799; A Lying Sort of Summer; Thus Friends Absent Speak; Edrington to Kennedy, June 1800; Nature and Degree; A letter from Flanders, January 1802; A letter from Kingston, January 1802; Another Sunrise; For the Sake of a Wavering Light

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June 8, 1799
Maj. the Earl of Edrington,
The Dolphin,
Plymouth

My Lord,

I must thank you for the most excellent advice you were so good as to give me, the more so as I am sure I did not mark my consciousness of your kindness sufficiently at the time.

It seems in fact that I am your debtor by a great deal -- both for what you have contributed with your excellent counsel to my own happiness and for your kindness to Mr Kennedy, for I would always wish to see him contented.

yr obedient servant,

H. Hornblower.
Mark of Friendship,
Plymouth.