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HAM/1/11/8

Note from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Pray tell Mrs.- Delany -- how much I
am obliged to her -- & will with
the greatest pleasure, send
our Subscription to her for
The Clergyman -- (I am not sure of
his Name.) if She will have the
goodneʃs to give it to him, with our
      compliments. I spoke to Mrs: Bernard
      to desire Mrs: Dunbar & the
      other Subscribers, wd: send their
      Subscriptions to Mrs: Delany.
I sd: wait upon her, if I poʃsibly could
before I go to ▼
Clifton, to thank her
but I fear I cannot, pray
tell her so, with by best Compts:


To
      Miʃs Hamilton

Miʃs Hamilton
      St: James's.
            21st.- May 1781[1]

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Notes


 1. This address appears, inverted, at the bottom of the page, suggesting that Lady Dartrey has reused an older or draft envelope.

Normalised Text


Pray tell Mrs.- Delany -- how much I
am obliged to her -- & will with
the greatest pleasure, send
our Subscription to her for
The Clergyman -- (I am not sure of
his Name.) if She will have the
goodness to give it to him, with our
      compliments. I spoke to Mrs: Bernard
      to desire Mrs: Dunbar & the
      other Subscribers, would send their
      Subscriptions to Mrs: Delany.
I should wait upon her, if I possibly could
before I go to ▼
Clifton, to thank her
but I fear I cannot, pray
tell her so, with by best Compliments


To
      Miss Hamilton

Miss Hamilton
      St: James's.
     

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 1. This address appears, inverted, at the bottom of the page, suggesting that Lady Dartrey has reused an older or draft envelope.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/8

Correspondence Details

Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)

Place sent: Clifton, near Bristol

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Windsor

Date sent: 21 May 1781
notBefore 21 May 1781 (precision: medium)
notAfter 21 May 1781 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton, relating to a subscription that is to be sent to Mrs Delany for The Clergyman.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 103 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 25 March 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: 31 August 2023

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