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HAM/1/10/1/3

Letter from Caterina Clarke (later Jackson) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


In returning from a Ball at Lord Stormonts
My Chairmen fell & my hand was cut with
the Glaʃs. &c.[1]

Jany. 23d. 1780

I am really rather bored now my dear for
neither can I walk, nor venture with per-
miʃsion in a chair -- so I am obliged to
make my enquiries of you in this man-
ner -- I hope you have quite recover'd the
accident you met with not only I mean
the wound on your wrist but the hurry
it must have given your spirits -- I have
heard of now by Anna Maria[2] or I shd.
have sent -- I think -- at least I then felt
hurt that you wd. not tell me what it
seems I was the only person ignorant of
as it was impoʃsible that it shd. the whole


evening escape my observation & when I
did discover it -- my fears magnified the
matter -- & I impute to the alarm it gave
me my foolish behaviour afterwards -- but
it might have been the same for
I was not the only foolish one of the
Party & they[3] had no excuse, my Compts.
to Ld. N Lord Napier -- I hope he has recover'd his com-
-posure of features --
I shd. like to have a little line from
you this morng. as it wd. convince me yt.
your hand was prety well but if it is
the least troublesome to you to write I
will hope that it is prety well if you send
me a good account of yourself --
                             Adieu my sweet friend

10. O'Clock
Thursday.[4]

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Notes


 1. These three lines are added at the top of p.1, written upside down.
 2. Sentence seems to be missing a word, perhaps which before I have.
 3. Mary Hamilton indicates with a caret that Clarke's they refers to Lord Napier.
 4. This dateline appears to the left of the closer.

Normalised Text



January 23d. 1780

I am really rather bored now my dear for
neither can I walk, nor venture with permission
 in a chair -- so I am obliged to
make my enquiries of you in this manner
 -- I hope you have quite recovered the
accident you met with not only I mean
the wound on your wrist but the hurry
it must have given your spirits -- I have
heard of now by Anna Maria or I should
have sent -- I think -- at least I then felt
hurt that you would not tell me what it
seems I was the only person ignorant of
as it was impossible that it should the whole


evening escape my observation & when I
did discover it -- my fears magnified the
matter -- & I impute to the alarm it gave
me my foolish behaviour afterwards -- but
it might have been the same for
I was not the only foolish one of the
Party & they had no excuse, my Compliments
to Lord Napier -- I hope he has recovered his composure
 of features --
I should like to have a little line from
you this morning as it would convince me that
your hand was pretty well but if it is
the least troublesome to you to write I
will hope that it is pretty well if you send
me a good account of yourself --
                             Adieu my sweet friend

10. O'Clock
Thursday.

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 1. These three lines are added at the top of p.1, written upside down.
 2. Sentence seems to be missing a word, perhaps which before I have.
 3. Mary Hamilton indicates with a caret that Clarke's they refers to Lord Napier.
 4. This dateline appears to the left of the closer.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Caterina Clarke (later Jackson) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/10/1/3

Correspondence Details

Sender: Caterina Jackson (née Clarke)

Place sent: London (certainty: low)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 23 January 1780

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Caterina Clarke to Mary Hamilton. She makes enquiries via a note relating to Hamilton's accident, as she is not able to walk nor venture out in her chair. An annotation from Hamilton explains that on returning from a ball at Lord Stormont's, her chairmen fell and her hand was cut on the glass.
    Original reference No. 10.
   

Length: 2 sheets, 234 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: Research Assistant funding in 2016/17 provided by The John Rylands Research Institute.

Research assistant: Sarah Connor, undergraduate student, University of Manchester

Research assistant: Carla Seabra-Dacosta, MA student, University of Vigo

Transliterator: Laura Gritti, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted May 2017)

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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