Diplomatic Text
My dr Miʃs Hamilton -- I have had ye headach so bad ------ these three last
Days that I am going to be bled; I could not therefore think
of Walking -- & should be delighted with your Company with
that but that I fear I must put it off, as I think I must
keep myself totally quiet after it -- as I am apt to
suffer a Good deal from it the Day I am bled -- You
cannot think how great a Mortification it is to me the
not seeing you, As I do flatter myself that had you
formd the Walking party at an End yet that you
would have done me ye favor to have indulg'd me
with your Company, which I aʃsure you would have
been a very Great deal to me -- for believe me
my Dr Miʃs Hamilton yr oblig'd & sincere humble
Svt Harriet Finch
I shall take ye first Moment & have my Mrs Cook
to wait on you
13th. June 1784
Hamilton
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Normalised Text
My dear Miss Hamilton -- I have had the headache so bad these three last
Days that I am going to be bled; I could not therefore think
of Walking -- & should be delighted with your Company with
that but that I fear I must put it off, as I think I must
keep myself totally quiet after it -- as I am apt to
suffer a Good deal from it the Day I am bled -- You
cannot think how great a Mortification it is to me the
not seeing you, As I do flatter myself that had you
formed the Walking party at an End yet that you
would have done me the favour to have indulged me
with your Company, which I assure you would have
been a very Great deal to me -- for believe me
my Dear Miss Hamilton your obliged & sincere humble
Servant Harriet Finch
I shall take the first Moment & have my Mrs Cook
to wait on you
Hamilton
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/85
Correspondence Details
Sender: Harriet Finch
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 13 June 1784
when 13 June 1784 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton. Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she has had a headache which was so bad for three days that she is going to be bled. As she is ‘apt to suffer a great deal ... [from] the day I am bled’ she thinks it best that Hamilton put off visiting her for the present time’.
Length: 1 sheet, 165 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 29 May 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