Diplomatic Text
My dear Miʃs Hamilton
Lady Dartrey tells me that she has
endeavoured to prevail with you & Mrs. Hamilton
to call on her tomorrow E instead of her
coming to you but I flatter myself that if
you have already engaged Mr Wake too Mrs. Hamilton
will have determined on staying at home
& in that case I will if you will permit
me wait on you for I really long to see you
or if you do go to Ly D's I shall be happy
to see --- Mrs. H. & you here on your return home,
as I understand that Ly Dartrey conts at home
only the first part of the E.
in short my dr. Miʃs H. let me know when
I can see you & believe me
yr. sincere friend & Hble. Sert.
S. Feilding
Tuesday
Miʃs Hamilton
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Normalised Text
My dear Miss Hamilton
Lady Dartrey tells me that she has
endeavoured to prevail with you & Mrs. Hamilton
to call on her tomorrow Evening instead of her
coming to you but I flatter myself that if
you have already engaged Mr Wake too Mrs. Hamilton
will have determined on staying at home
& in that case I will if you will permit
me wait on you for I really long to see you
or if you do go to Lady Dartrey's I shall be happy
to see Mrs. Hamilton & you here on your return home,
as I understand that Lady Dartrey continues at home
only the first part of the Evening
in short my dear Miss Hamilton let me know when
I can see you & believe me
your sincere friend & Humble Servant
Sophia Feilding
Tuesday
Miss Hamilton
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Notes
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/1/7/5/18
Correspondence Details
Sender: Sophia Fielding (née Finch)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: between February 1772 and November 1778
notBefore February 1772 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1778 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton. She writes that Lady Dartrey
(see HAM/1/11) has told her that she has attempted to persuade Hamilton
and her mother to call on her tomorrow but she understands that Hamilton
is already engaged with Lady Wake and that Mrs Hamilton will be
determined to stay home if this is the case. Fielding therefore asks
permission to wait on Hamilton as she longs to see her.
Length: 1 sheet, 141 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 3 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: 4 June 2023