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HAM/1/6/8/27

Note from John Hope to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
      Your friendʃhip, my dear Miʃs Hamilton,
has made you ʃay about one third more
than I would have done for myself. --
I ʃhould have ʃuppreʃs'd the whole of the
Laʃt Page; -- but as it comes from a
young & ʃusceptible Heart, I let it
paʃs. -- Mr:  ------ [2] being with me
ʃtill prevents me from ʃaying
more, than my that my prayers
attend you both when you ʃleep &
when you wake -- Milton[3] --

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Notes


 1. The date of this letter is very uncertain.
 2. The name has been censored by painting over, presumably by Hamilton.
 3. 'Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth Unseen/both when we wake, and when we sleep', John Milton, Paradise Lost iv:677.

Normalised Text


      Your friendship, my dear Miss Hamilton,
has made you say about one third more
than I would have done for myself. --
I should have suppressed the whole of the
Last Page; -- but as it comes from a
young & susceptible Heart, I let it
pass. -- Mr:  ------  being with me
still prevents me from saying
more, than that my prayers
attend you both when you sleep &
when you wake -- Milton --

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 1. The date of this letter is very uncertain.
 2. The name has been censored by painting over, presumably by Hamilton.
 3. 'Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth Unseen/both when we wake, and when we sleep', John Milton, Paradise Lost iv:677.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from John Hope to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/8/27

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Hope

Place sent: Northampton (certainty: medium)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Northampton (certainty: medium)

Date sent: ?1773
when 1773 (precision: low)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Hope to Mary Hamilton. He writes that Hamilton's friendship has made her say 'about one third more than I would have done for myself' – probably a whole page. The writing comes from a 'young & susceptible Heart, I let it pass'. He continues that his prayers attend Hamilton whilst 'you sleep & when you wake – Milton'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 70 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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