Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/8/2/1

Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton, I hope you are disengag'd next
Sunday Evening, & that you will give us the pleasure of
yr company to meet Mrs Carter, & if you will give her leave
she will call on you in the Coach & carry you here at Night
I was in hopes some of these fine Mornings wd have induc'd you
to take a Walk towards Dover Street: Adieu & believe me My
dear Madam -- yr ever faithful &c DBloʃset
                             Dover Street Thursday Evening --
                                    20th March 1783


Miʃs Bloʃset[1]


Miʃs Hamilton
Clarges Street --

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Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton, I hope you are disengaged next
Sunday Evening, & that you will give us the pleasure of
your company to meet Mrs Carter, & if you will give her leave
she will call on you in the Coach & carry you here at Night
I was in hopes some of these fine Mornings would have induced you
to take a Walk towards Dover Street: Adieu & believe me My
dear Madam -- your ever faithful &c Dorothy Blosset
                             Dover Street Thursday Evening --
                                    20th March 1783




Miss Hamilton
Clarges Street --

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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 Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/8/2/1

Correspondence Details

Sender: Dorothy Blosset

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 20 March 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton. She invites Hamilton to visit her the following week and to meet with Mrs Carter [Elizabeth Carter] at her home. She writes that Mrs Carter will call on Hamilton with the coach to bring her to the house.
    Dated at Dover Street [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 92 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 11 December 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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