HAM/1/8/2/15
Note from Dorothy Blosset to John Dickenson and Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
My dear Mr & Mrs. Dickenson I beg you to accept my Sincere thanks
for all yr kind attentions to me, in my Scene of Sorrow. I bleʃs God I
am better than I expected I should have been when the last fatal Strokes
deprived me not only of an Excellent Parent, but one who I Tenderly Loved.
as a Companion & as a Friend -- I have as yet seen but three old friends
but if you & Mr. Dickenson will allow me to place you in that Claʃs,
I shall esteem my self much obliged to you if you will come & see us,
Either this Evening or any other. Mrs. de Salis desires her Love to you both
& so would Dr de Salis. if he had the Good fortune to know you as well --
I am my dear Mrs. Dickenson yrs Afftely DBloʃset
Dover Street, March 25th- 1797
Poor Mrs. Bloʃset died
Wedn night 12 oClock 15 March 1797
was buried yesterday 24th March
1797
London
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Normalised Text
My dear Mr & Mrs. Dickenson I beg you to accept my Sincere thanks
for all your kind attentions to me, in my Scene of Sorrow. I bless God I
am better than I expected I should have been when the last fatal Strokes
deprived me not only of an Excellent Parent, but one who I Tenderly Loved.
as a Companion & as a Friend -- I have as yet seen but three old friends
but if you & Mr. Dickenson will allow me to place you in that Class,
I shall esteem my self much obliged to you if you will come & see us,
Either this Evening or any other. Mrs. de Salis desires her Love to you both
& so would Dr de Salis. if he had the Good fortune to know you as well --
I am my dear Mrs. Dickenson yours Affectionately Dorothy Blosset
Dover Street, March 25th- 1797
Lower Brook 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 John Dickenson and Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/8/2/15
Correspondence Details
Sender: Dorothy Blosset
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton and John Dickenson
Place received: London
Date sent: 25 March 1797
Letter Description
Summary: The note relates to the death of Dorothy Blosset's mother, Mrs Blosset.
On the back of the sheet is a note written by Hamilton stating that Mrs Blosset died on 15th March 1797 and was buried on the 24th March.
Length: 1 sheet, 157 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 12 November 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