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HAM/1/4/4/13

Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


6th: March
1784

My Dr. Miʃs Hamilton
      The Prince told me last
night that he had invited you
& begd me to write or call upon
you to repeat the invitation
I can not be with you to day
till after 3 o'clock if you will
be at home between 3 & 4 I will
be with you -- I can see no Objection
to your going on Wednesday
provided Ly Stormont goes
with you Yrs. most affectionately
                                                         WH.
Saturday Morg[1]

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Notes


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Normalised Text



My Dear Miss Hamilton
      The Prince told me last
night that he had invited you
& begged me to write or call upon
you to repeat the invitation
I can not be with you to day
till after 3 o'clock if you will
be at home between 3 & 4 I will
be with you -- I can see no Objection
to your going on Wednesday
provided Lady Stormont goes
with you Yours most affectionately
                                                         William Hamilton
Saturday Morning

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 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature.

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/1/4/4/13

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sir William Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 6 March 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He writes to his niece that the Prince [of Wales] had informed him the previous night that he had invited her [to his ball] and had 'begged' him to repeat this invitation.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 78 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 29 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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