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HAM/1/12/89

Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My drst- Miʃs Hamilton, What can I say for your kind &
genteel thought about ye Cap -- You have Sent me ye
prettiest in ye World -- I aʃsure you I was quite Shock'd
at first -- & I am jealous about it -- But I soon reflect'd
that any one who had ye Idea -- would wish their Present
Accepted -- I therefore receive it with Pleasure & return
you many thanks for it -- & wish I may ever (to do credit
to ye Cap) apply this pretty imitation to as good Effect
as ye Original I was so much Struck with this &
tis so very late that I will only add that I am yr Obliged & sincere humble Sert H.


Miʃs Hamilton[1]
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Notes


 1. This address line is written at the top of the page.
 2. A word or phrase in the middle of the page, written vertically, was cancelled with a large ink-blot that comes through on the other side of the page.

Normalised Text


My dearest Miss Hamilton, What can I say for your kind &
genteel thought about the Cap -- You have Sent me the
prettiest in the World -- I assure you I was quite Shocked
at first -- & I am jealous about it -- But I soon reflected
that any one who had the Idea -- would wish their Present
Accepted -- I therefore receive it with Pleasure & return
you many thanks for it -- & wish I may ever (to do credit
to the Cap) apply this pretty imitation to as good Effect
as the Original I was so much Struck with this &
tis so very late that I will only add that I am your Obliged & sincere humble Servant Harriet


Miss Hamilton
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 1. This address line is written at the top of the page.
 2. A word or phrase in the middle of the page, written vertically, was cancelled with a large ink-blot that comes through on the other side of the page.

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/1/12/89

Correspondence Details

Sender: Harriet Finch

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: A brief note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton, thanking Hamilton.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 121 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 9 June 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: 27 September 2023

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