Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/6/3/5

Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
      My Dear Friend
      can you dine with me to day spend
the evening. or will it be more convenient to come in the
afternoon. so shall I call you at ½ past 3. or
at 7.
      ever yours
                             M Delany       20th. May 1785


Mrs. Delany
May 20th 1785

Ha --- [2][3]

                                                         Clarges [4][5]

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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. Probably Hamilton.
 3. This word is inverted in relation to the main text. The ink matches that of the address below. This suggests the letter was addressed when folded.
 4. Missing word because of page-cut, probably Street.
 5. 'Clarges' is written diagonally towards the bottom corner of the page, further supporting the interpretation that this note was addressed after folding.

Normalised Text


      My Dear Friend
      can you dine with me to day spend
the evening. or will it be more convenient to come in the
afternoon. so shall I call you at ½ past 3. or
at 7.
      ever yours
                             Mary Delany       20th. May 1785




Ha --- 

                                                         Clarges

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 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. Probably Hamilton.
 3. This word is inverted in relation to the main text. The ink matches that of the address below. This suggests the letter was addressed when folded.
 4. Missing word because of page-cut, probably Street.
 5. 'Clarges' is written diagonally towards the bottom corner of the page, further supporting the interpretation that this note was addressed after folding.

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/1/6/3/5

Correspondence Details

Sender: Georgina Mary Anne Waddington (née Port) and formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 20 May 1785

Letter Description

Summary: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, inviting her to dine with Delany.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 45 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 19 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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