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HAM/1/4/4/14

Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


London[1]

                             Monday March 15th.
                                                         1784
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I am sorry Dr. Watkin has
engaged his Ticket for to day
but you shall surely have one
another day -- I send you the
Bracelet with my hair which
poor Ly. H. wore from the moment
we married I woud not deposit it
but in the hands of one whom I
know to have loved & respected her
I send you also the Malachite Heart
belonging to your Ear rings
                             Yrs. ever most affecly.
                                                         WH


U: Wm

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Normalised Text



                             Monday March 15th.
                                                        
My Dear Miss Hamilton
      I am sorry Dr. Watkin has
engaged his Ticket for to day
but you shall surely have one
another day -- I send you the
Bracelet with my hair which
poor Lady Hamilton wore from the moment
we married I would not deposit it
but in the hands of one whom I
know to have loved & respected her
I send you also the Malachite Heart
belonging to your Ear rings
                             Yours ever most affectionately
                                                         William Hamilton


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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/1/4/4/14

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sir William Hamilton

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 15 March 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He sends his niece a bracelet with his hair that Lady Hamilton had worn from the beginning of their marriage.
    Dated at London.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 83 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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