HAM/1/6/8/7
Covering note from John Hope to Mary Hamilton and Mrs Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne)
Diplomatic Text
Though Mr: Hope has imprudently ------
debarr'd himself the pleaʃure of Mrs: & Miʃs
Hamilton's Converʃation, it is but just he
ʃhould render to the Ladies what is their
Due. -- The Epistle, on the fourth Side
of the Inclosed Paper, was originally
intended for their Entertainment;[1] and
if it ʃhould happen to make them
ʃmile, he ʃhall be happy in thinking
he has made ʃome little amends for
having undesignedly caused them to frown.
He begs the Epistle may not[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Possibly the ‘Heroic Epiſtle’ mentioned in HAM/1/6/8/24.
2. The rest of the letter is torn away.
Normalised Text
Though Mr: Hope has imprudently
debarred himself the pleasure of Mrs: & Miss
Hamilton's Conversation, it is but just he
should render to the Ladies what is their
Due. -- The Epistle, on the fourth Side
of the Enclosed Paper, was originally
intended for their Entertainment; and
if it should happen to make them
smile, he shall be happy in thinking
he has made some little amends for
having undesignedly caused them to frown.
He begs the Epistle may not
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: Covering note from John Hope to Mary Hamilton and Mrs Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne)
Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/8/7
Correspondence Details
Sender: John Hope
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne) and Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: December 1773
notBefore 12 December 1773 (precision: low)
notAfter December 1773 (precision: medium)
Letter Description
Summary: Covering note from John Hope to Mary Hamilton and her mother, Mrs Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne), enclosing a piece of writing that Hope has written for their amusement.
Length: 1 sheet, 79 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: 24 December 2021