HAM/1/5/1/4
Letter from Reverend Archibald Hamilton Cathcart to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
My Dear Cousin
I have the pleasure of
informing you that Mrs Cathcart is
safely delivered of another Daughter
both as well as poʃsible. I shall
now be able to obey your commands
by meeting you at Woburn. I am
also happy to tell you my Neice
Lady Emily Murray is going to be
married to a Mr Drummond much
to the Dukes satisfaction & as he kindly
wishes me to tie the knot I readily obey
the summons & shall soon be at
Dunkeld for that purpose. I will
now only add kind regards to yours
& Ever am your Affect Cousin
Mrs Dickenson AH Cathcart
Mrs Dickenson[1] [2]
Leighton House
Leighton Buzard
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Normalised Text
My Dear Cousin
I have the pleasure of
informing you that Mrs Cathcart is
safely delivered of another Daughter
both as well as possible. I shall
now be able to obey your commands
by meeting you at Woburn. I am
also happy to tell you my Niece
Lady Emily Murray is going to be
married to a Mr Drummond much
to the Dukes satisfaction & as he kindly
wishes me to tie the knot I readily obey
the summons & shall soon be at
Dunkeld for that purpose. I will
now only add kind regards to yours
& Ever am your Affectionate Cousin
Mrs Dickenson Archibald Hamilton Cathcart
Mrs Dickenson
Leighton House
Leighton Buzzard
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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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 Reverend Archibald Hamilton Cathcart to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/1/4
Correspondence Details
Sender: Archibald Hamilton Cathcart
Place sent: Wolverton, Buckinghamshire
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Leighton Buzzard
Date sent: 30 December 1808
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Rev. Hon. Archibald Hamilton Cathcart to Mary Hamilton. He reports the safe delivery of 'another Daughter' to the Cathcarts and the engagement of Cathcart's niece, Lady Emily Murray, to a Mr Drummond [James Andrew John Laurence Charles Drummond (1767-1851)], much to the Duke's satisfaction.
Length: 1 sheet, 118 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2014/15 and 2015/16 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Donald Alasdair Morrison, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Hollie Wilson, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted November 2014)
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