Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/2/41

Note from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Accept these Dallington Violets, which
I offer to you with very different Sensations
from what I experienced twenty five
Years ago[1] -- I was then a despairing
Lover -- but now am the happy Husband
of my most amiable & beloved Mary --
                             J Dickenson
Northampton
      16 March 1802


To
      Mrs Dickenson

enclosing violets from
Dallington

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Notes


 1. John Dickenson had first proposed to Mary Hamilton in 1777 (Anson & Anson 1925: 53-54).

Normalised Text


      Accept these Dallington Violets, which
I offer to you with very different Sensations
from what I experienced twenty-five
Years ago -- I was then a despairing
Lover -- but now am the happy Husband
of my most amiable & beloved Mary --
                             John Dickenson
Northampton
      16 March 1802


To
      Mrs Dickenson

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quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. John Dickenson had first proposed to Mary Hamilton in 1777 (Anson & Anson 1925: 53-54).

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/1/2/41

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Dickenson

Place sent: Northampton

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Northampton (certainty: high)

Date sent: 16 March 1802

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Dickenson to his wife Mary née Hamilton, stating that ‘twenty five years ago – I was then a Despairing Lover but now am the happy Husband’.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 48 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 14 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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