Diplomatic Text
Mrs Walkinshaw presents her Complements to Miʃs Hamilton
and sends her the Queens knoting, which she is much ashamed
has not been done sooner, but what with being ill, and six ▼
weeks at Ramsgate for sea air, it has made her very Idle,
but now she is got well and goeing to Hale she will have
more time, and will be very glad to receive her Majestys
Commands, mr Cadman will send her any parcel of silk
by the stage Coach, as she will be at a great loʃs till it Comes,
she hopes miʃs Hamilton has been in perfect health, and
is allways very sincerly happy to hear there Majestys
and the Royall family are so, she goes tomorrow to Hedsor
for two nights, but Cannot stay longer as Lady Elizabeth
Archer is quiet allone and has not been well,
Maddox street August 13th
1782
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Normalised Text
Mrs Walkinshaw presents her Compliments to Miss Hamilton
and sends her the Queens knotting, which she is much ashamed
has not been done sooner, but what with being ill, and six ▼
weeks at Ramsgate for sea air, it has made her very Idle,
but now she is got well and going to Hale she will have
more time, and will be very glad to receive her Majestys
Commands, mr Cadman will send her any parcel of silk
by the stage Coach, as she will be at a great loss till it Comes,
she hopes miss Hamilton has been in perfect health, and
is always very sincerely happy to hear their Majestys
and the Royal family are so, she goes tomorrow to Hedsor
for two nights, but Cannot stay longer as Lady Elizabeth
Archer is quite alone and has not been well,
Maddox street August 13th
1782
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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 Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/12/14
Correspondence Details
Sender: Catherine Walkinshaw
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 13 August 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton. She is belatedly sending Hamilton the Queen's 'knotting', and with renewed good health and time on her hands 'will be very glad to receive her Majesty[']s Commands'.
Original reference No. 14.
Length: 1 sheet, 146 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2016/17 provided by The John Rylands Research Institute.
Research assistant: Sarah Connor, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Anna Alina, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted May 2017)
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