Robert Owen letters to Nash Family

Item 41/1


                London 4 Crescent Mall(?) Burton Crescent
                                9 November 1838


My Dear Sir,
                I regret not being at home when you
called upon me yesterday but on my return at night
I found your memorandum awaiting me.
                You may head the advertisements & placards with
"A Course of Four Lectures on the existing errors & evils of
Society with Remedies which shall benefit all & injure
none" by Robert Owen.
                I enclose a synopsis of the Lectures as I delivered them
in Newcastle(?), but if necessary I could modify them to suit
a superior Brighton audience.
                I am most desirous that the advertisement in the
newspapers - the placards - taking of the hall & everything
connected with this Course should be done in the most
respectable manner so as to induce the more educated &
wealthy as well as the superior portion of the working
classes to attend - the mode of effecting those results I
leave to you who are already acquainted with the parties.
                Yours my Dear Sir very sincerely
                                Robert Owen




Addressed to:–
E Nash Esq.
No. 48 Ship Street,
Brighton.

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Item 42


Saturday afternoon (25 Nov. 1848)


My Dear Henrietta

I have just now received your
interesting note. I shall be in my
Hotel on monday morning until 12
oclock before which hour I shall
be glad to see you & Mr Jacobs(?); but
if the weather will permit I will
call at Rose Villa tomorrow having
to make some other calls in the
neighbourhood & I will take my chance
of finding some of you at home,
With love to all. Yours affectionately, my
        Dear child.        Robert Owen


Envelope addressed to:-
Miss Nash
Rose Villas,
Holloway.

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Item 41/2

Ridge(?) Green Nutfield Surrey
                        6 December 1848.


My Dear Sir,

        I received with very
great pleasure your letter of the
23rd with its inclosures - It is very
very gratifying to me to learn that
you were so well satisfied with my
friends in Paris & to know that
they were equally gratified with
our visits to them. But I am
yet more pleased to hear of your
happiness with my dear Henrietta(?)
which I hope will grow with both
of you as long as you grow older.
I never witnessed a marriage which

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in my expectation promised so much
permanent happiness as yours, all
circumstances appeared propitious &
soon after my return to London I hope
to come & hear from you both of all
the wonders(?) of your Paris journey.
        Tell your Batchelor (sic) friends that

I have a fine(?) batch in store for
those who deserve a good wife
& will appreciate her as well
as you do.
        My love to Henrietta
& her Father & Mother not forgetting
her(?) son Henry.
        Affectionately yours
                Robert Owen.

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Item 41/3

Whitehall Nook Kingston Surrey
                12 November 1849


My Dear Sir,
                I am anxious to know how my
good daughter is & if she is progressing
satisfactorily, for Mrs Bugden's letter was
written too soon after her loss(?) & going
to judge of subsequent progress. Pray
write me a line of information on this
interesting subject & address it to Jermyn(?)
St where I expect to be on Wednesday
morning & if I can I will come in the
afternoon or evening to see you & the
patient & our friend & perhaps if there is
yet a spare bed remain all night.
        My love to each & all & to our friends
the Bugdens should you see them.
        Yours My dear Son affectionately

                                Robert Owen

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Item 41/4

Sevenoaks 11 Sep 1857


My Dear Sir
        I have received your letter
& its inclosures safe, the
peas(?) are excellent & I am
much obliged to you for thus
relieving me from the
annoyances(?) I previously
experienced. I also thank
you for the information
respecting the Birmingham
meeting with Lord Brougham
the particulars respecting
which I received by the same
post today & your statement
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is correct as it appears in (?)
in all points. I mean(?) to
be present if my health
will permit & see what can
be done there to advance our
views. All true socialists(?)
should be there if they can
accomplish the journey & spare
the time. It is the best(?)
chance ever yet offered to make an
impression on influential classes.
Do not delay your visit
to Sevenoaks until the
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days are short & the weather
unpleasant. Love to each of
my children & grandchildren
?
?                yours affectionately,
                 Robert Owen.


Mrs Twort requests to be
kindly remembered to all the
family.


Envelope addressed to:-
Eliezar Nash Esq.
Coppice Row,
London
EC.
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