Diplomatic Text
My dear Miʃs Hamilton I really have wish'd so much to take ye
first opportunity of waiting upon you that I can not let
this Day Paʃs off like ye former ones since Janry 1st
without telling you that I was yesterday absolutely
sptepping forth to have your Doors open'd for my
Paʃsage to yr Appartment when I was taken with
a sudden faintneʃs, a thing not very usual to me
but which occasion'd my paʃsing a very unpleasant
day, this having been repeated more than once
I was really unable to think of leaving our
own Appartment -- & am detain'd at home
to day more from Prudence tho' I do not
feel quite well -- Dont mention to my Mother
anything of this my dr Miʃs H -- if you will
be so good -- as I know she never suffers these
catastrophes where she goes conʃtantly -- I am
sure I shall be well enough to morrow to have ye
pleasure of calling on you if you do not object to
my doing so -- I will come before you go to ye
Q. H. if you like it or any other time Adieu
believe me yr. Oblig'd & Sincere humbl
Sert -- Harriet Finch
Wednesday 2 o'Clock
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My dear Miss Hamilton I really have wished so much to take the
first opportunity of waiting upon you that I can not let
this Day Pass off like the former ones since January 1st
without telling you that I was yesterday absolutely
stepping forth to have your Doors opened for my
Passage to your Apartment when I was taken with
a sudden faintness, a thing not very usual to me
but which occasioned my passing a very unpleasant
day, this having been repeated more than once
I was really unable to think of leaving our
own Apartment -- & am detained at home
to day more from Prudence though I do not
feel quite well -- Don't mention to my Mother
anything of this my dear Miss Hamilton -- if you will
be so good -- as I know she never suffers these
catastrophes where she goes constantly -- I am
sure I shall be well enough to morrow to have the
pleasure of calling on you if you do not object to
my doing so -- I will come before you go to the
Queen's House if you like it or any other time Adieu
believe me your Obliged & Sincere humble
Servant -- Harriet Finch
Wednesday 2 o'Clock
St James's
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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 Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/74
Correspondence Details
Sender: Harriet Finch
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 6 January 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton. She does not feel well enough to leave her apartment and asks that Hamilton not tell her mother Lady Finch.
Length: 1 sheet, 208 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 14 May 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