Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/4/2/10

Letter from Frederick Hamilton to John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


Oct /89

      My Dear Sir

      I have this morning received the favor
of yours of the 5th. of this Inst. with the enclosed Bill for
One Thousand Pounds on Meʃsrs. Jones & Co. Bankers in London
& according to your desire I went myself to get it accepted &
according to form, they avail themselves of the Days of Grace,
however it is now the same to me as cash in hand. It comes
in perfect good time as Mr. Greenwood informs me the busineʃs can=
not be done by the Secretary at War, till next week. I am
sure you have done your part & the confidence you repose
in me adds greatly to the obligation; I know you now per=
fectly & if I dont forget myself, I must be ever sensible of the
manly manner in which you have done me a very singular
favor. Robert is as you may suppose, in no small joy & knows
the transaction. Our united Compts. to you & Mrs. Dickenson I
remain.
                             My Dear Sir
                                       Your most Obliged Humble Servt.
                                                         Frederick Hamilton
Oxford Street 249.
      October 7th. 1789.[1]



John Dickenson Esqr
      Park Gate
      near
               Chester

[2]

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Notes


 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature.
 2. Remains of a seal can be seen above and below the address.

Normalised Text



      My Dear Sir

      I have this morning received the favour
of yours of the 5th. of this Instant with the enclosed Bill for
One Thousand Pounds on Messrs. Jones & Co. Bankers in London
& according to your desire I went myself to get it accepted &
according to form, they avail themselves of the Days of Grace,
however it is now the same to me as cash in hand. It comes
in perfect good time as Mr. Greenwood informs me the business cannot
 be done by the Secretary at War, till next week. I am
sure you have done your part & the confidence you repose
in me adds greatly to the obligation; I know you now perfectly
 & if I don't forget myself, I must be ever sensible of the
manly manner in which you have done me a very singular
favour. Robert is as you may suppose, in no small joy & knows
the transaction. Our united Compliments to you & Mrs. Dickenson I
remain.
                             My Dear Sir
                                       Your most Obliged Humble Servant
                                                         Frederick Hamilton
Oxford Street 249.
      October 7th. 1789.



John Dickenson Esqr
      Parkgate
      near
               Chester

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 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature.
 2. Remains of a seal can be seen above and below the address.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Frederick Hamilton to John Dickenson

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/2/10

Correspondence Details

Sender: Frederick Hamilton

Place sent: London

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: Parkgate, Wirral

Date sent: 7 October 1789

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Rev. Frederick Hamilton to John Dickenson. The letter relates to Dickenson's loan for the payment of Robert Hamilton's commission in the 10th Dragoons, for which Frederick expresses deep gratitude.
    Dated at Oxford Street [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 190 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2013/14 provided by G.L. Brook bequest, University of Manchester.

Research assistant: George Bailey, undergraduate student, University of Manchester

Transliterator: Huishi Hu, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted December 2013)

Transliterator: Kadie Ratchford, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted December 2013)

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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