Diplomatic Text
Dover Street
15 July 1783
Friday Evening --
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My dear Miʃs Hamilton
I return you ten thousand thanks for the Verses
which make me flush when I think I could be so
Idle as to mislay them --
I most sincerely wish you a pleasant Summer. I hope
you will be prevail'd on to go with Sr. William
& Lady Wake into Eʃsex til they go into Northampton
Shire -- I think yr friend can hardly ever be so
tasteleʃs as to be tired of yr company, at least I
judge of others by my own feelings -- & I hope you
will remember that a Post Chaise will meet
you at Fenny Stratford, whenever you will send yr
commands to Mrs. de Salis who is to be found at
Tring Beds Hemel Hemsted Bag[1] -- Adieu for I am all confusion
but always yrs very affecly DBloʃset.
if you want a Cheap &
most Aimable Milliner you will oblige me. if you will
apply to Miʃs Forsters in South Molton Street --
they are poor Gentlewomen; & vastly
well behav'd -- [2]
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Normalised Text
Friday Evening --
▼
My dear Miss Hamilton
I return you ten thousand thanks for the Verses
which make me flush when I think I could be so
Idle as to mislay them --
I most sincerely wish you a pleasant Summer. I hope
you will be prevailed on to go with Sir William
& Lady Wake into Essex til they go into NorthamptonShire
-- I think your friend can hardly ever be so
tasteless as to be tired of your company, at least I
judge of others by my own feelings -- & I hope you
will remember that a Post Chaise will meet
you at Fenny Stratford, whenever you will send your
commands to Mrs. de Salis who is to be found at
Tring Bedfordshire Hemel Hemsted Bag -- Adieu for I am all confusion
but always yours very affectionately Dorothy Blosset.
if you want a Cheap &
most Amiable Milliner you will oblige me. if you will
apply to Miss Forsters in South Molton Street --
they are poor Gentlewomen; & vastly
well behaved --
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Notes
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/1/8/2/4
Correspondence Details
Sender: Dorothy Blosset
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: low)
Date sent: 15 July 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton, relating to a journey that
Hamilton is going to undertake.
Dated at Dover Street [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 170 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 6 November 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