Diplomatic Text
[1]
8/9th May 1784
St James Palace Sunday
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton it is an age since
we have meet -- I hope you will come soon &
give an account of your self -- I have Been put
into a little Hurry by the agreeable surprise of
of Mrs Sandfords arrival last Wednesday The Heat
makes me good for nothing did not My Esteem for
you stamp some Merit on your affectionate
Humble Friend
MD
I have fretted at your and mrs Carters Calling here in Vain,
I sent my young Emeʃsary after you the next day but you were fled
9. May 84[2]
Miʃs Hamilton[3]
Delany[4]
[5]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The image differs from that in the University of Manchester LUNA catalogue, as p.1 and p.2 have been swapped for ease of presentation.
2. This date is written vertically at the top right of the page.
3. The address line is written upside down at the top left of the page.
4. This annotation is written vertically in the left margin.
5. Remains of a seal, in red wax, on both sides of the page.
Normalised Text
St James Palace Sunday
My Dear Miss Hamilton it is an age since
we have met -- I hope you will come soon &
give an account of your self -- I have Been put
into a little Hurry by the agreeable surprise of
Mrs Sandfords arrival last Wednesday The Heat
makes me good for nothing did not My Esteem for
you stamp some Merit on your affectionate
Friend
Mary Delany
I have fretted at your and mrs Carters Calling here in Vain,
I sent my young Emissary after you the next day but you were fled
9. May 84
Miss Hamilton
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 on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/3/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville and Anne Agnew (née Astley)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: between 8 and 9 May 1784
notBefore 8 May 1784 (precision: high)
notAfter 9 May 1784 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton. She asks Hamilton to visit her and notes that she had been worried about her and Mrs Carter calling on her in vain and had sent someone after them both but that they 'were fled'.
Dated at St James Palace [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 100 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 18 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