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2d April 1783
My dear Miʃs Hamilton, I am very sorry I do not go
this Evening to the Concert. I have a half Subscription
& unluckily this is not my turn -- do you visit Mrs. Irby
she goes this Evening -- & I believe Lady Dashwood goes.
Ly Jersey subscribes -- so does Lady Salisbury. Lady Eʃsex.
Mrs. St. John do you visit Lady Cornewall. she goes this
Evening -- These are all I can recollect at present. Lady
Abingdon always goes -- I hope we shall see you as early as
you can to morrow. it is a very private party. next Thursday
I know it shall be more numerous -- Adieu.. I hope you will
find a party. for it is a charming Concert -- I am most affecly yrs
DBloʃset
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2d April 1783
My dear Miss Hamilton, I am very sorry I do not go
this Evening to the Concert. I have a half Subscription
& unluckily this is not my turn -- do you visit Mrs. Irby
she goes this Evening -- & I believe Lady Dashwood goes.
Lady Jersey subscribes -- so does Lady Salisbury. Lady Essex.
Mrs. St. John do you visit Lady Cornewall. she goes this
Evening -- These are all I can recollect at present. Lady
Abingdon always goes -- I hope we shall see you as early as
you can to morrow. it is a very private party. next Thursday
I know it shall be more numerous -- Adieu.. I hope you will
find a party. for it is a charming Concert -- I am most affectionately yours
Dorothy Blosset
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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/1/8/2/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: Dorothy Blosset
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 2 April 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton. She apologises that she is
herself unable to attend the concert that evening but that she
understands that Lady Jersey, Lady Dashwood and Lady Salisbury amongst
others will be attending and hopes that Hamilton 'will find a party' to
go with as it is a 'charming concert'. Blosset hopes to see Hamilton as
early as possible the following evening at a private party.
Length: 1 sheet, 131 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
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Revision date: 2 November 2021