Autograph letter signed : Mr. Walden's, Church Street, Edmonton, to Mrs. [William] Hazlitt, [1833 May 31].

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Autograph letter signed : Mr. Walden's, Church Street, Edmonton, to Mrs. [William] Hazlitt, [1833 May 31].

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Informing her that Mary's mental illness has led him to take her to Edmonton, where he is staying with her: "I am driven from house and home, by Mary's illness. I took a sudden resolution to take my sister to Edmonton, where she was under medical treatment last time, and have arranged to board and lodge with the people. Thank God, I have repudiated Enfield. I have got out of hell, despair of heaven, and must sit down contented in a halfway purgatory."

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