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HAM/1/7/6/20

Note from John Fisher to John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


Dear Sr.

      I have been out on a visit some days,
& only returned last night, or I would not so long have
suffered your Letter to have remained unanswered.
      Tomorrow & Tuesday we are particularly engaged, but
on Wednesday I shall be happy to shew you every thing worth
seeing in this place. On Thursday Mrs. Fisher & myself
propose going to spend a week in Town, when we hope
for the pleasure of paying our respects to Mrs. Dickenson.
      I am
                             Dear Sr.
      Your faithful humble Servant
                                                         J Fisher
Windsor May. 25. 1788

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Normalised Text


Dear Sir

      I have been out on a visit some days,
& only returned last night, or I would not so long have
suffered your Letter to have remained unanswered.
      Tomorrow & Tuesday we are particularly engaged, but
on Wednesday I shall be happy to show you every thing worth
seeing in this place. On Thursday Mrs. Fisher & myself
propose going to spend a week in Town, when we hope
for the pleasure of paying our respects to Mrs. Dickenson.
      I am
                             Dear Sir
      Your faithful humble Servant
                                                         John Fisher
Windsor May. 25. 1788

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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 John Dickenson

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/6/20

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 25 May 1788

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Fisher to John Dickenson. He apologises for the delay in answering Dickenson's letter and that he and his wife will be visiting London shortly and will wait upon him there.
    Dated at Windsor.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 95 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 29 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: 2 November 2021

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