Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/7/7/5

Envelope addressed from James Murray to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
                             93
London Decr. Twenty first
      Mrs. Dickenson
           Birch Hall
                             Manchester
JMurray[2]

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Notes


 1. This envelope bears two postal Bishop marks and an intact black wax seal.
 2. This signature appears to the left of 'Manchester'. Murray's signature here constitutes a Frank, denoting that postage is free.

Normalised Text


                            
London December Twenty-first
      Mrs. Dickenson
           Birch Hall
                             Manchester
JamesMurray

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 1. This envelope bears two postal Bishop marks and an intact black wax seal.
 2. This signature appears to the left of 'Manchester'. Murray's signature here constitutes a Frank, denoting that postage is free.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Envelope addressed from James Murray to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/7/5

Correspondence Details

Sender: James Murray

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Rusholme, near Manchester

Date sent: between 21 December 1785 and 21 December 1793
notBefore 21 December 1785 (precision: high)
notAfter 21 December 1793 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Envelope addressed from James Murray to Mary Hamilton at Birch Hall
    This was previously catalogued with other letters from Wilhelmina Murray (née King) as the likely author of the letter it accompanied. James Murray was her brother-in-law and, as MP for Perthshire from 1773-1794, was entitled to free franks.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 9 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: Tillie Quattrone, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted 27 February 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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