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Newspaper cutting: 'The Leveller's Cursory Thoughts' by John Hope

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 2. According to Pitcher (1998: 78), articles entitled ‘The Leveller's Cursory Thoughts’ ‘are a revised, blended reprinting of two essay serials in the Westminster Magazine’, the second of which, ‘The Leveller’, ran from January 1774 to March 1776. This piece does not appear in vol. 4 (1776), so presumably dates from 1774 or 1775, while the version in the Whitehall Evening-Post may be earlier still: ‘Tueſday the 24th of laſt month’ can only refer to August 1773, May 1774, January or October 1775. The piece is reprinted in Thoughts in Prose and Verse, started in his Walks, By John Hope (Stockton, 1780), pp.34-37, apart from the lines at the foot from ‘With Siſter Clio [...]’ onwards.

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 1. No transcription is provided for images of print.
 2. According to Pitcher (1998: 78), articles entitled ‘The Leveller's Cursory Thoughts’ ‘are a revised, blended reprinting of two essay serials in the Westminster Magazine’, the second of which, ‘The Leveller’, ran from January 1774 to March 1776. This piece does not appear in vol. 4 (1776), so presumably dates from 1774 or 1775, while the version in the Whitehall Evening-Post may be earlier still: ‘Tueſday the 24th of laſt month’ can only refer to August 1773, May 1774, January or October 1775. The piece is reprinted in Thoughts in Prose and Verse, started in his Walks, By John Hope (Stockton, 1780), pp.34-37, apart from the lines at the foot from ‘With Siſter Clio [...]’ onwards.

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Newspaper cutting: 'The Leveller's Cursory Thoughts' by John Hope

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/8/34

Document Details

Author: John Hope

Date: between 1773 and 1775

Summary: Newspaper cutting from the Whitehall Evening-Post, containing an article written by J. H. [John Hope] entitled 'The Leveller’s Cursory Thoughts'.
   

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: 24 December 2021

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