Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/2/1

Note from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


[1]
      I can not suppose that my Dear
Mary can form the most distant
idea that her D—— would wish
to place her under any restraint
upon any Acct. whatever --
and tho he is most affectly-
attached to his Sisters


Bullstrode[2]

yet if their residence with
his amiable Wife will be
unpleasing to her -- he will
be the last person in the
World to make such a
      Request
6th. Decbr-
1784 --

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Notes


 1. We have swapped the two pages in the image of this letter, as the original had the second page first. The image therefore differs from that in the University of Manchester LUNA catalogue.
 2. Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire was the residence of the Duchess of Portland (died 17 July 1785).

Normalised Text



      I can not suppose that my Dear
Mary can form the most distant
idea that her Dickenson would wish
to place her under any restraint
upon any Account whatever --
and though he is most affectionately
attached to his Sisters



yet if their residence with
his amiable Wife will be
unpleasing to her -- he will
be the last person in the
World to make such a
      Request
6th. December
1784 --

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 1. We have swapped the two pages in the image of this letter, as the original had the second page first. The image therefore differs from that in the University of Manchester LUNA catalogue.
 2. Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire was the residence of the Duchess of Portland (died 17 July 1785).

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/2/1

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Dickenson

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Gerrards Cross (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 6 December 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton. He writes that he cannot imagine that Hamilton would believe that he would 'wish to place her under any restraint upon any Acc[oun]t whatever'. He is most affectionately attached to his sisters, 'yet if their residence with his amiable Wife will be unpleasing to her – he will be the last person in the World to make such a Request'.
    Hamilton did not marry Dickenson until the following year.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 69 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.

Acknowledgements: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 1 July 2020)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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