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HAM/1/8/8/2

Note from Lady Mary Wake (née Fenton) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


The chief Requisites to form a
tender, beneficial, & lasting Friendship
between two Persons, are enlarged
Hearts, a good Education, & a mutual
desire of Knowledge: as ours, I trust
is built upon this Basis -- may it
prove as  --- durable as our Existence
                                                         Mary Wake
Sepbr. ye. 14th. 1783.[1]

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Normalised Text


The chief Requisites to form a
tender, beneficial, & lasting Friendship
between two Persons, are enlarged
Hearts, a good Education, & a mutual
desire of Knowledge: as ours, I trust
is built upon this Basis -- may it
prove as durable as our Existence
                                                         Mary Wake
September the 14th. 1783.

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 1. This dateline is written to the left of the signature.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Lady Mary Wake (née Fenton) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/8/8/2

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Mary Wake (née Fenton)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 14 September 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Lady Mary Wake to Mary Hamilton, relating to friendship. Amongst the main 'requisites' for forming a lasting friendship. Lady Wake notes are a good education and a 'mutual desire for knowledge'. She believes her friendship with Hamilton is built on such a basis.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 49 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: 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 24 November 2022)

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 December 2022

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