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HAM/1/6/3/4(3)

Copy of note from Mary Delany to Horace Walpole

Diplomatic Text

[1]
      Mrs. Delanys Answer -- Windsor Novbr. 30th 1786
      Mrs. D: presents her Compts. to Mr. W. & Her acknowledgments
for ye. very kind & acceptable present He has made her
(wch. she recd. last night) of his new Edition of His anecdotes on
Painting -- nor is she insensible of ye. Honor done her in
mentioning her name in so ingenious & valuable a work
wth. so much delicacy as to reconcile her to a Publication
that wd. have been rather Painful from any other hand.

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Notes


 1. The entire sheet is written in Mary Hamilton's hand, and the title over the note is hers. Title and note are the last two paragraphs on the image, 8 lines in all.

Normalised Text


      Windsor November 30th 1786
      Mrs. Delany presents her Compliments to Mr. Walpole & Her acknowledgements
for the very kind & acceptable present He has made her
(which she received last night) of his new Edition of His anecdotes on
Painting -- nor is she insensible of the Honour done her in
mentioning her name in so ingenious & valuable a work
with so much delicacy as to reconcile her to a Publication
that would have been rather Painful from any other hand.

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 1. The entire sheet is written in Mary Hamilton's hand, and the title over the note is hers. Title and note are the last two paragraphs on the image, 8 lines in all.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Copy of note from Mary Delany to Horace Walpole

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/3/4(3)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place received: London (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 30 November 1786

Letter Description

Summary: Copy of note from Mary Delany to Horace Walpole in reply to his note two days earlier. Delany thanks him for his ‘very kind & acceptable present’ [of a new edition of his Anecdotes of Painting in England].
    Walpole's note is copied above this one and is transcribed as HAM/1/6/3/4(2).
    The other side of the sheet contains HAM/1/6/3/4(1).
   

Length: 1 sheet, 81 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 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: 22 April 2023

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