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My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
Mrs Montagu is
very desirous to have the pleasure
of your Company to Dinner on
Wednesday next to meet Mr & Mrs
Smelt but Says that she is not
enough acquainted with you to
take the liberty of throwing a
card at you & therefore desires me
to ask the favour in her name
& I hope you will not have
the cruelty to refuse our joint
request -- I have a great many
apologs to make to you for
not having profited by the
kind permiʃsion you gave me
of writing to you last Summer
but it is impoʃsible within the
compaʃs of a card to state the
case properly but I trust that
when you come to know the various
causes that combin'd to prevent
my having that pleasure you
will see that I was rather to be
pitied than blam'd for my Silence
Since it did not proceed from
Want of inclination -- believe me
much yours
D Gregory
Hill Street Sunday morning
28th. Janry 1781
Miʃs Gregory[1]
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
Mrs Montagu is
very desirous to have the pleasure
of your Company to Dinner on
Wednesday next to meet Mr & Mrs
Smelt but Says that she is not
enough acquainted with you to
take the liberty of throwing a
card at you & therefore desires me
to ask the favour in her name
& I hope you will not have
the cruelty to refuse our joint
request -- I have a great many
apologies to make to you for
not having profited by the
kind permission you gave me
of writing to you last Summer
but it is impossible within the
compass of a card to state the
case properly but I trust that
when you come to know the various
causes that combined to prevent
my having that pleasure you
will see that I was rather to be
pitied than blamed for my Silence
Since it did not proceed from
Want of inclination -- believe me
much yours
Dorothea Gregory
Hill Street Sunday morning
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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 Dorothea Gregory to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/7/1
Correspondence Details
Sender: Dorothea Montague Alison (née Gregory)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 28 January 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Dorothea Gregory to Mary Hamilton. She invites Hamilton to dinner on behalf of Mrs Montagu, where she will meet Mr and Mrs Smelt. Gregory apologises for not writing to Hamilton but cannot explain the reasons 'within the compass of a card'.
Original reference No. 1.
Length: 1 sheet, 168 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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).
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Acknowledgements: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2017/18 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Georgia Tutt, MA student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Ana García Maquieira, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted May 2018)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 19 November 2021