HAM/1/11/47
Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
1806
my Eyes being still weak
and my occupations so various, on acct.
of our late recent sad Loʃs of a f our good & excellent Wainwright; & a new Sert..
coming; & my dear Husband's spirits,
hasnot being good & strong enough at present
for any Exertion; that I mustcan send
you only a hasty Scrap to tell you,
Dear Mrs. D, that I have sent 2
Vols of Books for yourself, & a small
Parcel for yr Louisa -- (the Legaʃcies
of our beloved Mrs. Carter,) by the
Leighton Buzzard Coach.
Lady Wake is not in Town, & I have had
no opportunity of conversing with her
upon the painful - subject --- you have
mentiond to me.
My Husband and I are I bleʃs
God tolerably well; he joins me in
good wishes to yourself, Mr: Dickenson
and your dear Daughter -- Believe me
Your's Sincerely
PCremorne
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Normalised Text
1806
my Eye being still weak
and my occupations so various, on account
of our late sad Loss of our good & excellent Wainwright; & a new Servant
coming; & my dear Husband's spirits,
not being good & strong enough at present
for any Exertion; I can send
you only a hasty Scrap to tell you,
Dear Mrs. Dickenson, that I have sent 2
Volumes of Books for yourself, & a small
Parcel for your Louisa -- (the Legacies
of our beloved Mrs. Carter,) by the
Leighton Buzzard Coach.
Lady Wake is not in Town, & I have had
no opportunity of conversing with her
upon the painful subject you have
mentioned to me.
My Husband and I are I bless
God tolerably well; he joins me in
good wishes to yourself, Mr: Dickenson
and your dear Daughter -- Believe me
Your's Sincerely
Philadelphia Cremorne
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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/1/11/47
Correspondence Details
Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)
Place sent: London (certainty: high)
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Leighton Buzzard
Date sent: 21 March 1806
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton. She has forwarded to Hamilton two lots of books and a parcel for her daughter by the Leighton Buzzard Coach: the legacies from their 'beloved Mrs Carter'.
Length: 1 sheet, 145 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 April 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