HAM/1/11/20
Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
19
1782
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
It is impoʃsible for
me to expreʃs how sensibly I feel the
Queen's gracious goodneʃs to me, & how
very happy I shall feel tomorrow at
nine o'Clock -- how I hope the Sun will
shine, & how I wish the Trees were
full of Leaves, & the Garden full of
Flowers -- in short I wish for every thing
that could make our little Cottage
more worthy the Honor Her Majesty so
graciously confers upon us. I beg my
humble Duty -- how good of the Queen to
bring the Princeʃses with Her! --
In the greatest haste
Yrs: most Affly:
PD
I fear you have
miʃsed my two Letters --
about your poor Woman.[1]
Wednesday 2 o'Clock --
23d Octbr. 1782
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
It is impossible for
me to express how sensibly I feel the
Queen's gracious goodness to me, & how
very happy I shall feel tomorrow at
nine o'Clock -- how I hope the Sun will
shine, & how I wish the Trees were
full of Leaves, & the Garden full of
Flowers -- in short I wish for every thing
that could make our little Cottage
more worthy the Honour Her Majesty so
graciously confers upon us. I beg my
humble Duty -- how good of the Queen to
bring the Princesses with Her! --
In the greatest haste
Yours most Affectionately
Philadelphia Dartrey
I fear you have
missed my two Letters --
about your poor Woman.
Wednesday 2 o'Clock --
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/1/11/20
Correspondence Details
Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)
Place sent: Chelsea
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: not after 23 October 1782
notAfter 23 October 1782 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton. She is honoured that the Queen and the princesses are to visit her cottage and writes that she wishes that 'sun will shine, & the trees were full of Leaves & the garden full of Flowers'.
Original reference No. 19.
Length: 1 sheet, 119 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 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: 2 November 2021