Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/4/4/19

Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


in book
not typed[1]
                             Friday Morng. 20th Augt
                                                         1784
      It is poʃsible My Dear Miʃs
Hamilton that I may not be
able to call at Mrs. Delanys
to day I will if I can -- I am
going Tomorrow to Windsor
& Port Place & shall not
return till Wednesday when
I shall remain here till I
sett off for Naples, when
I will see as much of you
as I can yours most afftly
                                                         WH


Uncle Wm. August
      -84

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Notes


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Normalised Text



                             Friday Morning 20 August
                                                        
      It is possible My Dear Miss
Hamilton that I may not be
able to call at Mrs. Delanys
to day I will if I can -- I am
going Tomorrow to Windsor
& Port Place & shall not
return till Wednesday when
I shall remain here till I
set off for Naples, when
I will see as much of you
as I can yours 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/1/4/4/19

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sir William Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 20 August 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He notes that it may not be possible for him to call on Mrs Delany but if he can do so he will. He is to leave the following day for Windsor and Portland Place until Wednesday when he will return to London and see as much of his niece as he can before his return to Naples.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 71 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 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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