Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/7/5/16

Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I long for us to paʃs a comfortable Evening
together either here or with you wch. you please
either tomorrow or Tuesday. -- if the Weather is
favorable little Ma. shall wcaitll on you between
 --- Eleven & twelve for yr. answer.
                                                         Yrs. sincerely
                                                              S. F
Friday Night




Miʃs Hamilton

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Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton
      I long for us to pass a comfortable Evening
together either here or with you which you please
either tomorrow or Tuesday. -- if the Weather is
favourable little Matilda shall call on you between
Eleven & twelve for your answer.
                                                         Yours sincerely
                                                              Sophia Finch
Friday 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: Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/5/16

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sophia Fielding (née Finch)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: medium)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton. She wishes to spend an evening with Hamilton either at her apartment or at her own and asks that Hamilton let her know if she will be available.
   

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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 27 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: 27 September 2023

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