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HAM/1/6/8/16

Letter from Charles Hope to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Dear Madam

                             My Papa would not
allow me to call to take leave of Mrs. Ha=
=milton and you, as, after the Kind present
you gave me last year, he thought it would
look too much like the desiring a repeti=
=tion of the favour. But I aʃsure you I go away
not the leʃs grateful for all the Kindneʃs's
you & your Mama have shewn since
I have been at  ------ [1]      I am
                                                         Dear Madam
                                                         Your much obliged &
                                                         affectionate humble
                                                         Servant Chas. Hop[e]


      Sunday Morning[2]

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Notes


 1. It is probably the word ‘Northampton’ that has been cut away.
 2. The dateline appears to the left of ‘Your much obliged’ in the salutation, and a curly bracket separates them.

Normalised Text


Dear Madam

                             My Papa would not
allow me to call to take leave of Mrs. Hamilton
 and you, as, after the Kind present
you gave me last year, he thought it would
look too much like the desiring a repetition
 of the favour. But I assure you I go away
not the less grateful for all the Kindnesses
you & your Mama have shown since
I have been at  ------       I am
                                                         Dear Madam
                                                         Your much obliged &
                                                         affectionate humble
                                                         Servant Charles Hope


      Sunday Morning

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 1. It is probably the word ‘Northampton’ that has been cut away.
 2. The dateline appears to the left of ‘Your much obliged’ in the salutation, and a curly bracket separates them.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Charles Hope to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/8/16

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charles Hope, Lord Granton

Place sent: Northampton (certainty: medium)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Northampton (certainty: medium)

Date sent: not after 27 February 1774
notAfter 27 February 1774 (precision: low)

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charles Hope [Lord Granton (1763-1851), later a judge, eldest son of John Hope] to Mary Hamilton. He says that his father would not allow him to call on Hamilton and her mother to take his leave because it might look too much as if he was looking for a repeat of their present the previous year.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 84 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 20 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

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