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HAM/1/7/4/12

Note from John Farhill to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Madam
      It was my inten
tion to have paid you
in person the Compliments
of the Season. A very
violent Cold & severe
Pains in my Limbs
prevent my leaving the
house. I shall seize
the first opportunity of
paying my respects to
you.
      Sincerely yrs
                             John Farhill
25th Decbr:
1783[1]

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Notes


 1. This dateline appears to the left of the signature.

Normalised Text


My dear Madam
      It was my intention
 to have paid you
in person the Compliments
of the Season. A very
violent Cold & severe
Pains in my Limbs
prevent my leaving the
house. I shall seize
the first opportunity of
paying my respects to
you.
      Sincerely yours
                             John Farhill
25th December
1783

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quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. This dateline appears to the left of the signature.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from John Farhill to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/4/12

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Farhill

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 25 December 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Farhill to Mary Hamilton. He writes that a severe cold has prevented him leaving his house to wish her the compliments of the season in person.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 52 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 28 October 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: 2 November 2021

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