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HAM/1/7/5/4

Letter from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton
      If it was not so late I should call on
you with a long Meʃsage from Ly D. but as it is I shall
write you the Purport of it. viz -- that She wishes
you could dine with her on Saturday at 3 o'clock,
& go with her to their new Purchase after Dinner;
If you cd. not on Saturday perhaps you cd. on Sunday
don't trouble yrself to answer this to me as I
shall not see her before the time, but she begs
you will send her yr. determination as soon
as poʃsible.            Yrs. most sincerely
                                                         S. Feilding

I hope you have been well entertained with
the Play & its Spectators -- Ldy. D. cd. not write
herself being much hurried with having Mrs.
Earle
in the house. I conclude you know all
that Story & there is nothing new to add upon it
but that She has had a 2d. Letter from him rather
more satisfactory than the first & 2d. tells her where he is
Wednesday night 13th: May 1778




Miʃs Hamilton


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Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton
      If it was not so late I should call on
you with a long Message from Lady Dartrey but as it is I shall
write you the Purport of it. viz -- that She wishes
you could dine with her on Saturday at 3 o'clock,
& go with her to their new Purchase after Dinner;
If you could not on Saturday perhaps you could on Sunday
don't trouble yourself to answer this to me as I
shall not see her before the time, but she begs
you will send her your determination as soon
as possible.            Yours most sincerely
                                                         Sophia Feilding

I hope you have been well entertained with
the Play & its Spectators -- Lady Dartrey could not write
herself being much hurried with having Mrs.
Earle in the house. I conclude you know all
that Story & there is nothing new to add upon it
but that She has had a 2d. Letter from him rather
more satisfactory than the first & 2d. tells her where he is
Wednesday night




Miss Hamilton


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Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/5/4

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sophia Fielding (née Finch)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 13 May 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton. She writes that if it was not so late she would call on Hamilton with a long message from Lady Dartrey (see HAM/1/11. The outline of her message is that Dartrey wishes Hamilton to dine with her Saturday at 3 o'clock and to go with her ‘to their new Purchase after Dinner’.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 176 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 10 November 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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