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Newspaper cutting: 'A Rambler's Cursory Thoughts' by John Hope

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 2. According to Pitcher (1998: 80), the article ‘A Rambler's Cursory Thoughts’ is dated ‘September and November 1776’ and signed ‘J.H. Northampton’. Hamilton's copy lacks the place-name. However, Pitcher ascribes the article to the Westminster Magazine and makes no mention of the Whitehall Evening-Post, which possibly represents an earlier published version. The text of the first column of the cutting appears in the Westminster Magazine, vol.4 (1776), pp.599-600 and is reprinted in Thoughts in Prose and Verse, started in his Walks, By John Hope (Stockton, 1780), pp.24-26; in both, the conclusion of the last sentence reads: ‘[...] ſometimes make it high priced, we ſhall not, as formerly, experience thoſe ſad times of famine and general diſtreſs’. The second column is a fragment of the next piece in the same collection, its opening probably lost with the torn-off part of the first column. The text appears in full at pp.600-601 in the Westminster Magazine, and shortened at pp.26-28 in the book, minus ‘Contrary to both [...] more gauche!’.

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 1. No transcription is provided for images of print.
 2. According to Pitcher (1998: 80), the article ‘A Rambler's Cursory Thoughts’ is dated ‘September and November 1776’ and signed ‘J.H. Northampton’. Hamilton's copy lacks the place-name. However, Pitcher ascribes the article to the Westminster Magazine and makes no mention of the Whitehall Evening-Post, which possibly represents an earlier published version. The text of the first column of the cutting appears in the Westminster Magazine, vol.4 (1776), pp.599-600 and is reprinted in Thoughts in Prose and Verse, started in his Walks, By John Hope (Stockton, 1780), pp.24-26; in both, the conclusion of the last sentence reads: ‘[...] ſometimes make it high priced, we ſhall not, as formerly, experience thoſe ſad times of famine and general diſtreſs’. The second column is a fragment of the next piece in the same collection, its opening probably lost with the torn-off part of the first column. The text appears in full at pp.600-601 in the Westminster Magazine, and shortened at pp.26-28 in the book, minus ‘Contrary to both [...] more gauche!’.

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Newspaper cutting: 'A Rambler's Cursory Thoughts' by John Hope

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/8/11

Document Details

Author: John Hope

Date: not after November 1776

Summary: Newspaper cutting from the Whitehall Evening-Post and titled 'A Rambler's Cursory Thoughts', written by John Hope.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 0 words

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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.

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: 6 January 2022

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