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Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

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                                                         Dover Street June
                                                         14th-
                                                         1792
My dear Mrs. Dickenson
I cannot Suffer you to leave this
part of the World. without aʃsuring
you of my kindest Wishes. & also
to thank you for having call'd on us
Yesterday Evening. I had the pleasure
of seeing Mr & Miss Dickenson at Mrs
th ---  & they prevented my attempting
to see you at yr own House this
morning. by telling me that busineʃs
prevented our meeting last Night; & also that
Dr Turton was to be with you. so
that I concluded it wd be more
indiscreet than kind if I troubled
you with my appearance --
I am sorry the time is come
that we must leave. you. but I


I trust that a better reason than
ill Health, may bring you back
amongst yr friends & that we
may meet again next year --
God Bleʃs you -- & all yours -- &
pray remember me to yr sweet
little Girl. & Accept of all
our Compliments & present them
to Mr & Miʃs Dickenson. & believe
me yrs most Sincerely
                             DBloʃset.

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                                                         Dover Street June
                                                         14th-
                                                        
My dear Mrs. Dickenson
I cannot Suffer you to leave this
part of the World. without assuring
you of my kindest Wishes. & also
to thank you for having called on us
Yesterday Evening. I had the pleasure
of seeing Mr & Miss Dickenson at Mrs
th ---  & they prevented my attempting
to see you at your own House this
morning. by telling me that business
prevented our meeting last Night; & also that
Dr Turton was to be with you. so
that I concluded it would be more
indiscreet than kind if I troubled
you with my appearance --
I am sorry the time is come
that we must leave. you. but I


trust that a better reason than
ill Health, may bring you back
amongst your friends & that we
may meet again next year --
God Bless you -- & all yours -- &
pray remember me to your sweet
little Girl. & Accept of all
our Compliments & present them
to Mr & Miss Dickenson. & believe
me yours most Sincerely
                             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/1/8/2/12

Correspondence Details

Sender: Dorothy Blosset

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 14 June 1792

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she cannot allow Hamilton to leave town without sending her 'kindest wishes' and to thank her for calling on her. She writes that she had the pleasure of seeing Hamilton's husband and daughter the previous night and was intending to call upon Hamilton that morning but Dickenson had informed her that Dr Suton was to call on her that day and she thought it would not be convenient for Hamilton if she was to wait on her. Blosset is sorry that Hamilton is to leave town and hopes that ill health will not be the cause of her next visit.
    Dated at Dover Street [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 177 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 14 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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