Diplomatic Text
[1]
My Drst: Miʃs H.
If you have any Charity you
will come to us this Eveng: Ld.- D. Richd: & Mr: Penn[2]
& I long to see you -- we will tell you why
when you come -- only come as soon as
you can -- tell Mrs: H. I beg I entreat it
as a great Favor -- never mind dreʃs
I am in my Dormeuse[3] -- in haste
Yrs: most truly
PD
you shall not stay late --
pray come if you poʃsibly can --
Saturday -- I have no other Company
& have got a sad Cold. I beg
my best Compts: to Mrs: Hamilton
To
Miʃs Hamilton
James St:
Wesm:[4]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Lady Dartrey has a tendency to run words together, as in 'cometo', 'tosee' and 'agreat' in this and other letters.
2. This refers to either John Penn (1760-1834) or Granville Penn (1761-1844), sons of Thomas Dawson and Juliana Fermor.
3. ‘a hood or nightcap’ (OED s.v. dormeuse).
4. This address appears on the page by itself, broken into three fragments written in different directions when unfolded.
Normalised Text
My Dearest Miss Hamilton
If you have any Charity you
will come to us this Evening Lord Dartrey Richard & Mr: Penn
& I long to see you -- we will tell you why
when you come -- only come as soon as
you can -- tell Mrs: Hamilton I beg I entreat it
as a great Favour -- never mind dress
I am in my Dormeuse -- in haste
Yours most truly
Philadelphia Dartrey
you shall not stay late --
pray come if you possibly can --
Saturday -- I have no other Company
& have got a sad Cold. I beg
my best Compliments to Mrs: Hamilton
To
Miss Hamilton
James Street
Westminster
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/1
Correspondence Details
Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: not after 1778
notAfter 1778 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton. She says that if Hamilton has any 'charity' then she would visit her as soon as possible this evening. She need not stay late as she has no other company expected and has a bad cold.
Undated.
Length: 1 sheet, 107 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 January 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021