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HAM/1/11/22

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

Diplomatic Text


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My Dr: Miʃs H.
      Will you come this Evg: to
meet Ly: Wake & Ly: Beaumont, pray
bring yr: work --
                             Yrs: sincerely
                                                         PD
Saturday 10th: April 1784[2]
do you think you cd. poʃsibly
      get one or 2 of Mrs: Delany's worst Flowers for
                             us this Eveng: Ly: W. has not seen


them -- I long to have the art preserved, & I think
you ought to learn it --

Miʃs Hamilton

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Notes


 1. The old reference number is written vertically.
 2. This date appears to the left of Lady Dartrey's initials.

Normalised Text



My Dear Miss Hamilton
      Will you come this Evening to
meet Lady Wake & Lady Beaumont, pray
bring your work --
                             Yours sincerely
                                                         PhiladelphiaDartrey
Saturday 10th: April 1784
do you think you could possibly
      get one or 2 of Mrs: Delany's worst Flowers for
                             us this Evening Lady Wake has not seen


them -- I long to have the art preserved, & I think
you ought to learn it --

Miss Hamilton

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 1. The old reference number is written vertically.
 2. This date appears to the left of Lady Dartrey's initials.

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/1/11/22

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 10 April 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton. She asks Hamilton to come to her house this evening to meet Lady Wake and Lady Beaumont and to bring her work. She also enquires if it would be possible to ask Mrs Delany if she could come.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 69 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 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

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