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HAM/1/4/4/15

Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

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                             Monday Morning
                                  22d March 1784
My Dear Miʃs H.
      I certainly used you very
ill on Sat. Morning but my Memory
as my whole frame begins to fail
a little I quite forgot your breakfast
till it was too late & other Engage-
ments took place -- I am quite
sick of shewing the vase but if
you think Mrs Buller worthy I will
be at home any hour she pleases on
Wednesday morning to shew it to her[1]
                                                         Yr. most affectionate
                                                         Uncle & friend WH.

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Normalised Text


                             Monday Morning
                                  
My Dear Miss Hamilton
      I certainly used you very
ill on Saturday Morning but my Memory
as my whole frame begins to fail
a little I quite forgot your breakfast
till it was too late & other Engagements
 took place -- I am quite
sick of showing the vase but if
you think Mrs Buller worthy I will
be at home any hour she pleases on
Wednesday morning to show it to her
                                                         Your most affectionate
                                                         Uncle & friend 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/1/4/4/15

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sir William Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 22 March 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He writes that he treated his niece very ill on Saturday morning but that his memory is beginning to fail a little and that 'it was too late & other engagements took place'. He continues that he is 'quite sick of shewing the vase' but if she thinks that a Mrs Baller 'worthy' he will be at home on Wednesday.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 82 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 28 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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