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My dear Miranda,
I have seen your
Mamma this Evening Mrs: Caldecott
dined with her, to-day, she appears
rather more chearful & better than
on Sunday, she eat a tolerable
dinner & liked it. I can aʃsure you
she takes no medicine, the last night
was I hope, rather better than the
preceding.
Your Mamma sends her Love
longs to know to whom she is
indebted for this attention, she
is not, --- quite easy untill you
satisfy her; Adieu my ever dear
Miranda -- be as tranquil as you
can -- take care of yourself & do
not forget
Your Anna Maria
Wednesday
night 12 OClock
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Normalised Text
My dear Miranda,
I have seen your
Mamma this Evening Mrs: Caldecott
dined with her, to-day, she appears
rather more cheerful & better than
on Sunday, she ate a tolerable
dinner & liked it. I can assure you
she takes no medicine, the last night
was I hope, rather better than the
preceding.
Your Mamma sends her Love
longs to know to whom she is
indebted for this attention, she
is not, quite easy until you
satisfy her; Adieu my ever dear
Miranda -- be as tranquil as you
can -- take care of yourself & do
not forget
Your Anna Maria
Wednesday
night 12 O'Clock
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/10/1/8
Correspondence Details
Sender: Anna Maria Clarke
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: not after 25 November 1778
notAfter 25 November 1778 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton. She writes of Hamilton's mother, whom she has seen that day and who seems to be more cheerful. She reports that she ate dinner '& liked it'. Clarke assures Hamilton that her mother does not take any medicine. She notes that her mother sends her love.
Original reference No. 5.
Length: 1 sheet, 104 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 2014/15 and 2015/16 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Donald Alasdair Morrison, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Ruby Linden, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted November 2014)
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