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HAM/1/4/7/16

Note from Lady Catherine Hamilton (née Barlow) to Mrs Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne)

Diplomatic Text

[1]
                             typed           3
                             about 17645
Dear Sister

      If you & Mr Hamilton
are not better engaged to day
you will make us very happy
if you will partake of our
Family dinner -- & in the Even
ing we hope to entertain you
with Miʃs Bloʃsets Singing -- pray
bring your Work for we are
to have no body but her &
Mr Philipps -- pray bring little
Mary I am Dr Sister & Brother
                             Most Affecly Yrs
                                                         CHamilton


[2]


To
The Honble           
Mrs. Hamilton
[3]
                                                         Typed[4]

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Notes


 1. This note appears in Anson & Anson (1925: 2-3).
 2. The left-hand side of this page is blank.
 3. A seal in black wax remains intact at the bottom right of the page.
 4. This annotation appears to the right of the address.

Normalised Text


                                       
                            
Dear Sister

      If you & Mr Hamilton
are not better engaged to day
you will make us very happy
if you will partake of our
Family dinner -- & in the Evening
 we hope to entertain you
with Miss Blossets Singing -- pray
bring your Work for we are
to have no body but her &
Mr Philipps -- pray bring little
Mary I am Dear Sister & Brother
                             Most Affectionately Yours
                                                         Catherine Hamilton





To
The Honourable           
Mrs. Hamilton

                                                        

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 1. This note appears in Anson & Anson (1925: 2-3).
 2. The left-hand side of this page is blank.
 3. A seal in black wax remains intact at the bottom right of the page.
 4. This annotation appears to the right of the address.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Lady Catherine Hamilton (née Barlow) to Mrs Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne)

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/7/16

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Catherine Hamilton (née Barlow)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne)

Place received: unknown

Date sent: not after 23 June 1764
notAfter 23 June 1764 (precision: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Lady Hamilton to Mrs Charles Hamilton, inviting them to dine with them where they will be able to hear Miss Blosset singing. She suggests that Hamilton bring her work with her as there will be little [formal] company.
    Original reference No. 3.
   

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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 5 August 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: 13 August 2023

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