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Note from George Greville, Earl of Warwick, to John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


Dr Sr.


If you should have any wish
to see a Representation of Lord
Neilson's Victory I shall be very
glad to have the pleasure of your
Company today. I understand
it is much admired & that the
Great Officers &c attend. this under
the direction of a Gentleman of my
Acquaintance -- it begins at --
1. oClock in Fleet Street -- If you chuse
it I will call on you a little after
12 oClock. -- Yours sincerely &c
                                                         Warwick
St. James's Place
      Wednesday May 15th 1799

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Normalised Text


Dear Sir


If you should have any wish
to see a Representation of Lord
Neilson's Victory I shall be very
glad to have the pleasure of your
Company today. I understand
it is much admired & that the
Great Officers &c attend. this under
the direction of a Gentleman of my
Acquaintance -- it begins at --
1. o'Clock in Fleet Street -- If you choose
it I will call on you a little after
12 o'Clock. -- Yours sincerely &c
                                                         Warwick
St. James's Place
      Wednesday May 15th 1799

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Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from George Greville, Earl of Warwick, to John Dickenson

Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/4/10

Correspondence Details

Sender: George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick

Place sent: London

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 15 May 1799

Letter Description

Summary: Note from the Earl of Warwick to John Dickenson. If Dickenson wishes to see a reproduction of Admiral Nelson's Victory [of the Battle of the Nile in 1798] then he would be glad of his company. The 'representation' is said to be much admired and that 'Great Officers' have attended. The event is to be held at Fleet Street at 1pm.
    Dated at St James [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 85 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: 2 November 2021

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