Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/7/6/14

Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his Comp:
to Miʃs Hamilton, & begs she will
so kind as to send him his books of
Drawings, as a Gentleman wishes to
see them early tomorrow morning before
he leaves London.
                             The Drawings
will be at Miʃs Hamiltons service at
any other time.
                             Mr. F. is sorry he
cannot have the pleasure of waiting upon
Miʃs H. tomorrow --

Thursd: 3 oCl April 1783[1]

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Notes


 1. The figures after the number 3 in the dateline seem to indicate a time rather than a date: their form suggests a most likely reading of ‘oCl’ as an abbreviation for o'clock, while an alternative reading of ‘30 April 1783’ is unlikely as the 30th was not a Thursday.

Normalised Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his Compliments
to Miss Hamilton, & begs she will
so kind as to send him his books of
Drawings, as a Gentleman wishes to
see them early tomorrow morning before
he leaves London.
                             The Drawings
will be at Miss Hamiltons service at
any other time.
                             Mr. Fisher is sorry he
cannot have the pleasure of waiting upon
Miss Hamilton tomorrow --

Thursday 3 o'Clock

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 1. The figures after the number 3 in the dateline seem to indicate a time rather than a date: their form suggests a most likely reading of ‘oCl’ as an abbreviation for o'clock, while an alternative reading of ‘30 April 1783’ is unlikely as the 30th was not a Thursday.

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/1/7/6/14

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: April 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton. He asks Hamilton to return his books of drawings as a gentleman wishes to see them the following morning. He notes that the drawings will be at her disposal at any other time.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 66 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 5 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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