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Letter from Frances Jackson to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


17

april 1805

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My dear Mrs. Dickenson
      I have this instant received your
letter -- & will send this to Mary to enclose with
one from My Aunt & I believe a few lines
from herself -- She will probably inform you
that the Bp is on the whole pretty well but
at times very low spirited -- My Aunt returned
here from Gloucester Yesterday Mong early and
is Still with us -- She goes this morng to Brom
[pton] -- & is now dawdling about in the adjoining
 ------  -- She seems perfectly well in health -- & in
very good Spirits & leaves Bromley at latest on
the 1st- of May -- I have neither time or space
to say any thing about Mary but that She
is well, & tho' She most sincerely regrets the death
of poor Mrs. Horsley -- cannot but consider it
a happy release -- I expect dear Louisa's dear
letter very impatiently & beg She will direct
to me at No 60 High Street Cheltenham -- Remem
ber kindly to Dr. Mr. Dickenson and Dear Louisa
Dear Mrs. Morrison & all the dear dumb animals
& I remain My dear Mrs Dickenson --
                             Yr affte- & obliged --
                                                         F. Jackson
Our Estate Our fate, respecting y: Estate is still
undecided -- I will write a much longer Letter
in answer to Louisa's when I receive it -- [1]


To
Mrs Dickenson
Leighton House
Beds——

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My dear Mrs. Dickenson
      I have this instant received your
letter -- & will send this to Mary to enclose with
one from My Aunt & I believe a few lines
from herself -- She will probably inform you
that the Bishop is on the whole pretty well but
at times very low spirited -- My Aunt returned
here from Gloucester Yesterday Morning early and
is Still with us -- She goes this morning to Brompton
 -- & is now dawdling about in the adjoining
 ------  -- She seems perfectly well in health -- & in
very good Spirits & leaves Bromley at latest on
the 1st- of May -- I have neither time or space
to say any thing about Mary but that She
is well, & though She most sincerely regrets the death
of poor Mrs. Horsley -- cannot but consider it
a happy release -- I expect dear Louisa's dear
letter very impatiently & beg She will direct
to me at No 60 High Street Cheltenham -- remember
 kindly to Dear Mr. Dickenson and Dear Louisa
Dear Mrs. Morrison & all the dear dumb animals
& I remain My dear Mrs Dickenson --
                             Your affectionate & obliged --
                                                         Frances Jackson
Our fate, respecting the Estate is still
undecided -- I will write a much longer Letter
in answer to Louisa's when I receive it --


To
Mrs Dickenson
Leighton House
Bedforshire

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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 Frances Jackson to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/10/2/16

Correspondence Details

Sender: Frances Jackson

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard

Date sent: April 1805

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Fanny Jackson to Mary Hamilton, updating her on news of their family.
    Original reference No. 17.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 218 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 25 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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