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HAM/1/4/2/18

Letter from Frederick Hamilton to John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


Aug. 1792

I am sure I shou'd be very ungrateful were I not to make
the same acknowledgements to your excellent Father & Sister.
You will please to let Robt. know that I thought it ne=
ceʃsary to write to you upon the subject of his letter, & in this
I trust to your discretion to keep matters as fair as possible be=
tween all parties. I will take it for granted that you can
have no great difficulty in procuring what money bemay be
neceʃsary for my Sons debts &c. & therefore I conclude you
will permit his journey to take place on the day he
mention'd. I have already found a place where he c[an]
be well & conveniently lodged. Mrs. Hamilton & my Daughter
desire to be affectionately rememberd with me to you and
Mrs. Dickenson not forgetting Miʃs D. & when you see Mr.
Dickenson I trust you will aʃsure him of my obligations
for his kindneʃs to my Son I remain
                             Dear Sir,
                             Your faithful & Affectionate
                                                         Humble Servant
                                                         Frederick Hamilton
No. 2 Portman Square
      August 24th. 1792[1]


John Dickenson Esqr.
Taxal -- Chapel in Frith
                             DerbyShire[2]


Frk. Hamilton[3]

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Notes


 1. This dateline appears to the left of the closing salutation.
 2. Postmark 'AU 24 [9]2' below address when unfolded.
 3. This annotation appears at the bottom of the page, written upside down.

Normalised Text



I am sure I should be very ungrateful were I not to make
the same acknowledgements to your excellent Father & Sister.
You will please to let Robert know that I thought it necessary
 to write to you upon the subject of his letter, & in this
I trust to your discretion to keep matters as fair as possible between
 all parties. I will take it for granted that you can
have no great difficulty in procuring what money may be
necessary for my Sons debts etc. & therefore I conclude you
will permit his journey to take place on the day he
mentioned. I have already found a place where he can
be well & conveniently lodged. Mrs. Hamilton & my Daughter
desire to be affectionately remembered with me to you and
Mrs. Dickenson not forgetting Miss Dickenson & when you see Mr.
Dickenson I trust you will assure him of my obligations
for his kindness to my Son I remain
                             Dear Sir,
                             Your faithful & Affectionate
                                                         Humble Servant
                                                         Frederick Hamilton
No. 2 Portman Square
      August 24th. 1792


John Dickenson Esqr.
Taxal -- Chapel in Frith
                             DerbyShire


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 1. This dateline appears to the left of the closing salutation.
 2. Postmark 'AU 24 [9]2' below address when unfolded.
 3. This annotation appears at the bottom of the page, written upside down.

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/1/4/2/18

Correspondence Details

Sender: Frederick Hamilton

Place sent: London

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: Taxal, near Chapel-en-le-Frith

Date sent: 24 August 1792

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Rev. Frederick Hamilton to John Dickenson. The letter relates to Robert Hamilton and his leaving the Dickensons.
    Dated at Portman Square.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 187 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: Nicola Fletcher, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted December 2013)

Transliterator: Hala Shablak, 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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