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CHAPTER XXI - 1833, 1834

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

Thomas Fowell Buxton
Edited by
Charles Buxton
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Now that slavery had fallen, Mr. Buxton looked forward with delight to the leisure which lay before him. The autumn proved, however, to be one of much sorrow. Early in September, the eldest son of Mr. Hoare, a young man of the highest promise, began to sink under consumption; and closely as the two families were linked together, the blow which fell upon the one, was felt almost as keenly by the other. It is to this event that the following letters refer:—

To Samuel Hoare, Esq.

“Northrepps Hall, Sept. 1. 3 833.

“Your letter was very painful, and made us very truly and very bitterly sympathise with you. I know by sorrowful experience, how much is to be endured, and how many tormenting changes there are in the disease. There is, however, one part of his case, which is liable neither to anxiety nor change. He has built upon a rock. A century hence it will signify nothing, whether at this time he was stronger or weaker in body; but it will then and for ever after be a matter of the greatest moment, that he held a certain and just hope of eternal life through Christ. […] ”

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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet
With Selections from his Correspondence
 , pp. 339 - 358
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1848

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