Diplomatic Text
2[1]
my dr- madm- I have had an invitation ---
for Sunday to meet Ld- Monbodo & --- [2]
the Company I had promised you Sunday --
finding they were engaged I have changed
my day to Tuesday when I hope for the
favor of your Company & Miʃs Gunnings
to whom I beg you will will communicate
this new arrangement & a prié[3] from me for Tuesday
Mr & Mrs Ramzy wishes much I cou'd prevail
upon you both to join Sunday's Party.
25th April 1780
Hamilton
St James's
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This annotation is written vertically.
2. It is uncertain whether the ‘&’ has been cancelled, nor whether the following short word or abbreviation, perhaps wth ‘with’, shows modification by overwriting or cancellation.
3. Possibly a repas prié, a meal by special invitation (Lilti, Antoine (2015) The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris, p.19).
4. This annotation is written vertically in the right-hand margin.
Normalised Text
my dear madam I have had an invitation
for Sunday to meet Lord Monbodo & ---
the Company I had promised you Sunday --
finding they were engaged I have changed
my day to Tuesday when I hope for the
favour of your Company & Miss Gunnings
to whom I beg you will communicate
this new arrangement & a prié from me for Tuesday
Mr & Mrs Ramzy wishes much I could prevail
upon you both to join Sunday's Party.
25th April 1780
Hamilton
St James's
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Elizabeth Vesey to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/2/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: Elizabeth Vesey (née Vesey, later Handcock)
Place sent: London (certainty: medium)
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 25 April 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Elizabeth Vesey to Mary Hamilton. She writes to rearrange a visit from Hamilton and Miss Gunning and notes that she is to meet with Lord Monboddo [James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (c.1714-1790), judge and philosopher] this Sunday.
Original reference No. 2.
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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 24 August 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021