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HAM/1/4/4/29

Letter from Charles Francis Greville to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


1803
Announcement of
death of Sir Wm. Hamilton


Dear Madam
      Lady Hamilton received your Letter
& is sensible of your kindneʃs. I need not say
she is unable at present to acknowlege it, when
I tell you, that I have the painful task of com-
municating our Severe loʃs this Morning at
10 oClock -- He died as he lived. Sensible & com
posed to the last.. we unite in Compts. to
Mr Dickenson    & I am Dear Madam
                                                         Your obedt & Faithful Sert
                                                         C F. Greville
Apl. 6. 1803

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Dear Madam
      Lady Hamilton received your Letter
& is sensible of your kindness. I need not say
she is unable at present to acknowledge it, when
I tell you, that I have the painful task of communicating
 our Severe loss this Morning at
10 o'Clock -- He died as he lived. Sensible & composed
 to the last.. we unite in Compliment to
Mr Dickenson    & I am Dear Madam
                                                         Your obedient & Faithful Servant
                                                         Charles Francis Greville


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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 Charles Francis Greville to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/4/29

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charles Francis Greville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 6 April 1803

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charles Greville, writing on behalf of Lady Emma Hamilton to Mary Hamilton, upon the death of Sir William Hamilton. He writes that Sir William ‘dies as he lived, sensible & composed to the last’.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 76 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 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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