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HAM/1/10/2/12

Letter from Frances Jackson to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         13
                             Uppingham June 3d 1802
▼

My dear Mrs Dickenson
      I was extremely sorry that owing to
my carelessness in directing the letter you did
not recieve the news of my Sister's confine
ment so soon as I had hoped you wou'd
have done but am willing to make every
poʃsible amends by answering your kind letter im-
mediatly. It is now late & as the post
leaves Uppingham early I fear I shall not
have time to write a long letter. Katherine
desires me to say thank you for your kind
enquiries & to inform you that herself &
Child are getting quite stout She sat up
Yesterday from two till eight wch. consider-
-ing the she has not yet been a fort'night
Confined was a long time She is happy in
being able to nurse herself

The baby's name is to be
Mary Anna[1]


[2]
To

      Mrs Dickenson[3]
T Carill Worsleys Esq
                             Platt House
near Manchester

[4]

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Notes


 1. The postscript is written, inverted, between the dateline and the opening salutation. It has been moved to its logical reading order.
 2. Mileage mark 'UPPINGHAM 98'.
 3. Large manuscript number 9 in black ink, denoting postage due.
 4. Evidence of a seal in red wax (now missing).

Normalised Text


                                                        
                             Uppingham June 3d 1802
▼

My dear Mrs Dickenson
      I was extremely sorry that owing to
my carelessness in directing the letter you did
not receive the news of my Sister's confinement
 so soon as I had hoped you would
have done but am willing to make every
possible amends by answering your kind letter immediately
. It is now late & as the post
leaves Uppingham early I fear I shall not
have time to write a long letter. Katherine
desires me to thank you for your kind
enquiries & to inform you that herself &
Child are getting quite stout She sat up
Yesterday from two till eight which considering
 she has not yet been a fortnight
Confined was a long time She is happy in
being able to nurse herself

The baby's name is to be
Mary Anna



To

      Mrs Dickenson
Thomas Carill Worsleys Esq
                             Platt House
near Manchester

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 1. The postscript is written, inverted, between the dateline and the opening salutation. It has been moved to its logical reading order.
 2. Mileage mark 'UPPINGHAM 98'.
 3. Large manuscript number 9 in black ink, denoting postage due.
 4. Evidence of a seal in red wax (now missing).

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Frances Jackson to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/10/2/12

Correspondence Details

Sender: Frances Jackson

Place sent: Uppingham

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Fallowfield, near Manchester

Date sent: 3 June 1802

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Fanny Jackson to Mary Hamilton. She apologises for having inadequately addressed her previous letter (HAM/1/10/2/11), which meant that Hamilton was delayed in receiving the news of her sister's confinement. She writes that Katherine sends her thanks to Hamilton for her letter and notes that she and her daughter are 'getting quite stout'. Jackson writes that Mr Warren is happy with his daughter but will on occasions wake her up and bring her down stairs where she gets cold.
    Jackson's continues her letter with news of her family. Her aunt 'A. M.' [Anna Maria Clarke] is still in town and Mary is in Bromley but hopes to see her new niece soon.
    Dated at Uppingham.
    Original reference No. 13.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 150 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 9 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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