Obins, Archibald Eyre
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 23 June [1819]
[Inserted upside down between the salutation and the first line of the letter proper] Kindest regards from both to Mr. Obins – P. sends her [sic] to you both
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, October 26 1813
Adieu my dear Lady Olivia – * desire to be presented to you with respect and kindness – and I often talk of Brampton,* when Mr. Obins is never forgotten –
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, January 16 1815
joins me in every kind regard to dear , not forgetting our good Mr. Obins.
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, February 17 1815
who is poorly desires her affectionate respects. – My kindest regards to , never forgetting Mr. Obins, of whom I rejoyce to hear such good report. May he go on unto perfection.
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 25 March [1815]
, who is in very poor health does remember you with the warmest and most grateful affection and joins me in best wishes to Miss Sparrow and Mr. Obins. – Dunn agreed with us in liking a certain dignitary better than his chere Moitié* –
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 04 August [1817]
Your party I find is a good deal broken. Pray remember me most kindly to my two dear young friends. They have my prayers. joins me in best regards to Mr. Obins.
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 27 August [1817]
I have had this Frank two days without finding a single quarter of an hour to write; this morning I thought I had secured a little time when unexpect /ed/ ly poor came to spend /a/ good part of the day. She has had so many afflictions, (one sweet daughter has had a one leg cut off, and the other seems threatening the same calamity)* that one cannot but feel a particular interest for the Mother. She is entirely devoted to religion, and lives in so profound a retirement that I am afraid it will not be good for the young Lord who accompanied /her./ * I have been pleading for the young people, who being only children cannot be expected to be quite so abstracted as she wishes. The eldest girl is very pious and to her, confinement is no hardship. I have run on this long to account for the very short time /I shall have/ to desire you to thank Mr. Obins for his very kind letter, and to thank you my very dear Lady Olivia for your very kind few lines; but I must request you not to think I am so unreasonable as to expect even a single line from your own hand till your heart is more at ease. The accounts from Falmouth were not very encouraging. God grant the next may be more favourable! I long to know the decision of the last consultation. I do not much like your being driven out again on the ocean in the tempestuous Season of the Equinox which is approaching.* I am afraid too it is bad for your own health, which I must say is no inconsiderable thing in the account current.
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 2 October [1817]
A thousand thanks for your very kind letter from London. I cannot but feel rejoyced whenever I see your hand writing and yet I rejoyce with trembling, when I reflect what an expense of health and strength it may have been to you. Great as the gratification is, I must beg you not to use your own hand when you indulge me with any communication. I am sure you have those feeling friends about you who would at once gladly save you the pain and give me the pleasure. To dear Mr. Obins I am already much indebted on this head. I do love him.
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, [4 January 1818]
Tho I have written so much to your excellent companion, in answer to his kind letter, yet I cannot dispatch it without a few lines to yourself. Accept my heartfelt sympathy and cordial prayers; poor as they are they are at all times offered up for you and yours and especially at this hallowed and gracious Season; may all the blessings it was meant to convey be yours, and those of your dear party, even the blessings of redemption and the consolations of God’s Holy Spirit. Oh that I had wings like a dove, that I might fly to take a peep at you in your Conventual retreat, sleep in one of your Cells, and take a walk with you in the delicious Garden at which Mr. Obins’s description makes my Mouth water. , who I thank God is not worse, joins me in the warmest wishes for your health, peace and comfort. May the Almighty be your guard your /guide,/ the strength of your heart and your portion for ever! How one feels the impotence of human friendship! to desire so much and to be able to do so little, to do nothing!
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 11 August [1819]
[Inserted upside down between the salutation and the first line of the letter proper] Kindest regards from both to Mr. Obins – sends her [sic] to you both
To Lady Olivia Sparrow [incomplete]
and dined here not long since. I heartily hope that any little disagrémens may be got over. I hope to see them soon again, with a confirmation of the favourable appearance things then were which Mr. H. hoped would be permanent. May your prayers for this amiable young Man be heard!, and may he escape the pollutions of a World which will be throwing /out/ all it [sic] baits to allure him into the broad way. To I send my best love. (who desires all that is kind) and I mourn over poor Mr. Obins’s solitude How he must miss you!
To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 1826 (incomplete)
How is good Mr. Obins?