Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/7/5/12

Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I am very sorry that I am so engaged
on Wednes Thursday E. that I don't think it
will be poʃsible for me to call if I do it
will be very late
                                                         Yrs. S. Feilding
Thursday Morning 17th. March 1782

My Mother had but a bad night but her
face is something easier


Miʃs Hamilton

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Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton
      I am very sorry that I am so engaged
on Thursday Evening that I don't think it
will be possible for me to call if I do it
will be very late
                                                         Yours Sophia Feilding
Thursday Morning 17th. March 1782

My Mother had but a bad night but her
face is something easier


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: Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/5/12

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sophia Fielding (née Finch)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 17 March 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton. She is sorry that she is engaged on Thursday evening.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 59 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 11 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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