Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/10/1/14

Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Feby: 5th 1782


This day must not paʃs
my ever dear & amiable friend
without a Line from me --
yet I shall expreʃs to my
dearest friend very imperfect
-ly the pleasure I feel in
reflecting that it is her
Birthday.
      May this day often
very often return and always
be attended with pleasing
reflectxions to yourself as
it will ever be dear to all
who love you, among these
am I too ambitious in


desiring to be numbered?
with those near your heart?

As every return of this
day has confirmed to me
the happineʃs I poʃseʃs in
your friendship so may
the future birthdays prove
to you the sincere affection
& perfect esteem with
which I am & will be
      Yours
                             Anna Maria



Miʃs Hamilton
      St: James's Palace

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)

Normalised Text


February 5th 1782


This day must not pass
my ever dear & amiable friend
without a Line from me --
yet I shall express to my
dearest friend very imperfectly
 the pleasure I feel in
reflecting that it is her
Birthday.
      May this day often
very often return and always
be attended with pleasing
reflections to yourself as
it will ever be dear to all
who love you, among these
am I too ambitious in


desiring to be numbered?
with those near your heart?

As every return of this
day has confirmed to me
the happiness I possess in
your friendship so may
the future birthdays prove
to you the sincere affection
& perfect esteem with
which I am & will be
      Yours
                             Anna Maria



Miss Hamilton
      St: James's Palace

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)

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/1/10/1/14

Correspondence Details

Sender: Anna Maria Clarke

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Windsor

Date sent: 5 February 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton, congratulating her 'dearest friend' on her birthday.
   

Length: 3 sheets, 129 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

Transliterator: Athena Bras, MA student, Uppsala University (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

Document Image (pdf)