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HAM/1/11/36

Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


39


Stan. St:
      Octr: 12th.
1787

My Dr: Fd:
      One Line must tell you that
our Beloved Child is released
from all his Sufferings, & Bleʃsed
be God his poor Dr: Father & I are
not sunk under the Afflicting
Blow. My Eyes are weak
but I am otherwise most
wonderfully well -- Adieu
                             God Bless you &
                                            yrs PC

next Monday
we go out of Town
for a few Days I'll write when we
                                                         return


Mrs: Dickinson
      Taxal      6[1]
      near Chapel le
           Frith
           Derbyshire

[2]
[3]
                                                         Ly Cremorne
                                                         Octbr- 12th. 1787[4]

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Notes


 1. This figure is written across the address, denoting the price of postage.
 2. The remains of a seal can be seen at the top and bottom centre of p.2.
 3. Postmark.
 4. This annotation is written vertically on the right-hand side.

Normalised Text




Stanhope Street
      October 12th.


My Dear Friend
      One Line must tell you that
our Beloved Child is released
from all his Sufferings, & Blessed
be God his poor Dear Father & I are
not sunk under the Afflicting
Blow. My Eyes are weak
but I am otherwise most
wonderfully well -- Adieu
                             God Bless you &
                                            yours Philadelphia Cremorne

next Monday
we go out of Town
for a few Days I'll write when we
                                                         return


Mrs: Dickinson
      Taxal      
      near Chapel le
           Frith
           Derbyshire



                                                        

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 1. This figure is written across the address, denoting the price of postage.
 2. The remains of a seal can be seen at the top and bottom centre of p.2.
 3. Postmark.
 4. This annotation is written vertically on the right-hand side.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/36

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Taxal, near Chapel-en-le-Frith

Date sent: 23 October 1787

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton, informing her of the death of her son [Thomas].
    Dated at Stanhope Street [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 82 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 3 April 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: 3 October 2023

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