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Letter from John Jackson to John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


5.


Burlington Street
June 6th: 1794


Dear ʃir,
      I am much obliged to you for the trouble
you have taken concerning the poor Duke of Lancaster's
picture which I have not yet received -- I send you
enclosed a draft on my Banker at three days
sight for £4:20, which I shall be much oblig[ed]
to you to acknowledge -- From your Account
you are all Loyal at Bath; I wish I cou'd
say so much for every person in this Town,
however I trust the vigilance of Ministers
will effectually frustrate the rascally
designs of the Jacobins. -- No man more
sincerely wishes for a Peace than I do, but
unleʃs we can have one on safe terms I
                                                         am


▼
am one of those who think a continuance of
War neceʃsary -- I beg my best respects to
Mrs. Dickenson & remain
                             Dear ʃir
                                your obliged
                                                         & obedient Sert.
                                                         John Jackson.


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John Dickenson Esq[4]
                             No. 4
                                                         Portland Place
                                                         Bath


Jackson Novbr. 6
1794[5]
[6]
[7]

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Notes


 1. This annotation is written vertically.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Partial postmark in black ink.
 4. Large number '5' in black ink, 3 lines deep, denoting postage due.
 5. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin and erroneously gives the letter date as 6 November, not 6 June, 1794.
 6. Seal, in black wax.
 7. Postmark in black ink, dated 6 June 1794.

Normalised Text




Burlington Street
June 6th: 1794


Dear sir,
      I am much obliged to you for the trouble
you have taken concerning the poor Duke of Lancaster's
picture which I have not yet received -- I send you
enclosed a draft on my Banker at three days
sight for £4:20, which I shall be much obliged
to you to acknowledge -- From your Account
you are all Loyal at Bath; I wish I could
say so much for every person in this Town,
however I trust the vigilance of Ministers
will effectually frustrate the rascally
designs of the Jacobins. -- No man more
sincerely wishes for a Peace than I do, but
unless we can have one on safe terms I
                                                        


▼
am one of those who think a continuance of
War necessary -- I beg my best respects to
Mrs. Dickenson & remain
                             Dear sir
                                your obliged
                                                         & obedient Servant
                                                         John Jackson.










John Dickenson Esq
                             No. 4
                                                         Portland Place
                                                         Bath




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 1. This annotation is written vertically.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Partial postmark in black ink.
 4. Large number '5' in black ink, 3 lines deep, denoting postage due.
 5. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin and erroneously gives the letter date as 6 November, not 6 June, 1794.
 6. Seal, in black wax.
 7. Postmark in black ink, dated 6 June 1794.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from John Jackson to John Dickenson

Shelfmark: HAM/1/10/2/5

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Jackson

Place sent: London

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: Bath

Date sent: 6 June 1794

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from John Jackson to John Dickenson. He writes on a matter of business and on his hopes that the 'vigilance' of the Ministers in London will 'frustrate the rascally designs of the Jacobins'.
    Dated at Burlington Street [London].
    Original reference No. 5.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 154 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 23 September 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

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