Diplomatic Text
Mr. Fisher presents his Compliments to Miʃs Hamilton, --
is very sorry he could not have the pleasure of seeing her this morning.
He wished to offer her a petition in behalf of his Brother, which as a
Patroneʃs of the Arts Mr. F. hopes Miʃs H. will have no objection to
grant. The Matter is this: Mr. G. Fisher has nearly finished a
Landscape in Oyl, which he wants to ornament with some Cattle;
& he recollects seeing among Miʃs H.s pictures, a Landscape
where there are some Cattle which will suit his purpose : He
has entreated of mehis Brother to beg Miʃs H. will indulge him with the use
of that Picture for a couple of days.
Any morning that Miʃs H.
is most at leisure, Mr. F. will beg leave to shew her some
Drawings which his Brother has finished in the course of the
last Summer
St. Jamess. Wed: morn: 19th. Decbr. 1781
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Normalised Text
Mr. Fisher presents his Compliments to Miss Hamilton, --
is very sorry he could not have the pleasure of seeing her this morning.
He wished to offer her a petition in behalf of his Brother, which as a
Patroness of the Arts Mr. Fisher hopes Miss Hamilton will have no objection to
grant. The Matter is this: Mr. George Fisher has nearly finished a
Landscape in Oil, which he wants to ornament with some Cattle;
& he recollects seeing among Miss Hamiltons pictures, a Landscape
where there are some Cattle which will suit his purpose : He
has entreated his Brother to beg Miss Hamilton will indulge him with the use
of that Picture for a couple of days.
Any morning that Miss Hamilton
is most at leisure, Mr. Fisher will beg leave to show her some
Drawings which his Brother has finished in the course of the
last Summer
St. Jamess. Wednesday morning 19th. December 1781
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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 John Fisher to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/6/4
Correspondence Details
Sender: John Fisher
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 19 December 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton. He is sorry
that he did not see Hamilton that morning as he wished to present her
with a petition on behalf of his brother. He writes that 'as a Patron of
the Arts' Hamilton would have no 'objection to grant'. His brother has
almost finished a Landscape in oil which he wishes to 'ornament with some
Castle' and he remembers seeing a picture of a castle amongst Hamilton's
pictures which he would like to use for his own drawing and has asked to
borrow it for a few days.
Dated at St James's [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 155 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 28 October 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021