Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/4/6/6

Note from Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Mr. Dickinson[1]

Will you meet me in Portman Square
at Nine O'Clock I wish to speak to
you for five Minutes yo.s. Sincerely
                                                         Rach. Hamilton

[2]

[3]
Mrs. Hamilton
      Orchard Street

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Notes


 1. This address is split in two, with two different orientations, by unfolding.
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 3. This address is written in a different hand and does not belong to this note; apparently a scrap of blank paper was torn away from another letter and used for the present note.

Normalised Text


Mr. Dickinson

Will you meet me in Portman Square
at Nine O'Clock I wish to speak to
you for five Minutes yours Sincerely
                                                         Rachel Hamilton




Mrs. Hamilton
      Orchard Street

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 1. This address is split in two, with two different orientations, by unfolding.
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 3. This address is written in a different hand and does not belong to this note; apparently a scrap of blank paper was torn away from another letter and used for the present note.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/6/6

Correspondence Details

Sender: Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: between September 1791 and September 1792
notBefore September 1791 (precision: medium)
notAfter September 1792 (precision: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Rach[el] Hamilton asking Mary Hamilton to meet her at Portman Square. The note is not in Rachel Hamilton's hand, and appears to have been written by an unknown secretary.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 29 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 30 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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