Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833)

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Los 101 | Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833)
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Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833)
Autograph letter signed (‘Arthur Hallam’) to Emily Tennyson, Cambridge, n.d. [?1832]
One page, 112 x 185mm, bifolium. Provenance: Sotheby's, 25 July 1978.

‘For my sake endure & hope & trust in the affection of those about you: these will be fearful times for all who are not strengthened in love’. Expressing his concern for Emily’s health, Hallam opens the letter ‘Cara, Carissima, let me hear from you’, continuing ‘Alfred gives a pretty good account of your health, and Arthur says you have a great colour. Thank Heavens I shall be soon with you, unless I am cruelly deceived in my expectations. Alfred is looking well, I think, & seems better in mind and body than when I saw him at Cheltenham. He surprises me by his progress in Italian: why should you not read with him? – it would do you both good’. Expressing his concern, and apologising for his brevity, ‘I have not now time to write more; daily or hourly I think of you, and hope in you: should that hope fail me, Emily, do not think I can recover the wound’. A postscript notes ‘I have stolen your purse, but you shall have it if you ask for it’.

Emily and Arthur met through Emily’s older brother, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a close friend of Arthur's, and the pair became engaged in 1832. A year later Arthur passed away suddenly whilst travelling abroad. In a letter of 9 June 1932 Arthur writes desperately to Emily for news on her health after a bout of illness, suggesting the present letter may have been written around a similar time.
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