Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/4/4/8

Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                             Janry 1st. 1784

      A happy new year to you
My Dear Niece, I hope it begins
without the Tooth Ache --
Is it to Night We go to Mrs.
Montagu's? I thought Friday
was the Evening she Mention'd
do let me know & tell me
if I am to call upon you &
at what hour     I am taken
up today with busineʃs  ------ 
& a Dinner or woud call upon
you Yrs. most affectionately
                                                         W.H.

[1]


Miʃs Hamilton
      Clarges Street
                                                         Typed
                                                         [2]

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Notes


 1. The left side of the page is blank.
 2. Seal in red wax.

Normalised Text


                             January 1st. 1784

      A happy new year to you
My Dear Niece, I hope it begins
without the Tooth Ache --
Is it to Night We go to Mrs.
Montagu's? I thought Friday
was the Evening she Mentioned
do let me know & tell me
if I am to call upon you &
at what hour     I am taken
up today with business  ------ 
& a Dinner or would call upon
you Yours most affectionately
                                                         William Hamilton




Miss Hamilton
      Clarges Street
                                                        
                                                        

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 1. The left side of the page is blank.
 2. Seal in red wax.

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/1/4/4/8

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sir William Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 1 January 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He wishes his niece a happy New Year and reports that tonight he will go to Mrs Montagu's and asks when he is to call upon his niece.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 79 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 23 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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