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HAM/1/4/4/5

Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

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Nerots Hotel Kings Street
St. James's Wed. 5th. Nov.
1783


      I shoud fly to you immediately
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton if I
was not engaged to go to Kingston
to pay a visit to the Philipps
family I shall be in Town again
on Saturday or Sunday & shall
not make any excursion for some
time & will endeavour to enjoy
as much of your Society as I can
                                                         Yrs. most affectionately
                                                         my Dear Niece
                                                         W.H.


Miʃs Hamilton
      Clarges Street
      Piccadilly
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 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. This annotation is written diagonally on the right-hand side of the page.

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Nerots Hotel Kings Street
St. James's Wednesday 5. November


      I should fly to you immediately
My Dear Miss Hamilton if I
was not engaged to go to Kingston
to pay a visit to the Philipps
family I shall be in Town again
on Saturday or Sunday & shall
not make any excursion for some
time & will endeavour to enjoy
as much of your Society as I can
                                                         Yours most affectionately
                                                         my Dear Niece
                                                         William Hamilton


Miss Hamilton
      Clarges Street
      Piccadilly




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 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. This annotation is written diagonally on the right-hand side of the page.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/4/5

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sir William Hamilton

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 5 November 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He writes that he would 'fly' to his niece immediately if he did not have a prior engagement at the Phillips. He notes that he will be in Town again on Saturday and will make ever effort to 'enjoy as much as your society as I can'.
    Dated at Nerot’s Hotel, King Street [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 81 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 27 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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