Diplomatic Text
Dearest Miranda.
Mrs Glover & myʃelf have nothing to relieve
our conʃtant regret at your continued abʃence,
which we know to be unavoidable, but by making
your perfections a frequent subject of diʃcourʃe.
In the humour I now am, I will applaud my
poor dove for nothing, but her art; of which
take the preʃent inʃtance. She, conʃcious, that
I am full of juʃt rage againʃt her, hath moʃt
cunningly found the only means of compoʃing
it by putting her pen into my hand for
the pleaʃing purpoʃe of writing to you. This
being done, my rage returns. In ʃhort this
morning she hath broke my heart, the heart
(cruel puʃs) she had so great a share in. Adieu,
Sweet Miranda. Yours &ca &ca &ca. &ca. Leonidas
R. Glover Esqr[1]
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Normalised Text
Dearest Miranda.
Mrs Glover & myself have nothing to relieve
our constant regret at your continued absence,
which we know to be unavoidable, but by making
your perfections a frequent subject of discourse.
In the humour I now am, I will applaud my
poor dove for nothing, but her art; of which
take the present instance. She, conscious, that
I am full of just rage against her, hath most
cunningly found the only means of composing
it by putting her pen into my hand for
the pleasing purpose of writing to you. This
being done, my rage returns. In short this
morning she hath broken my heart, the heart
(cruel puss) she had so great a share in. Adieu,
Sweet Miranda. Yours &ca &ca &ca. &ca. Leonidas
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Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Richard Glover to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/13/13
Correspondence Details
Sender: Richard Glover
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: not after 25 November 1785
notAfter 25 November 1785 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Richard Glover to Mary Hamilton, on his regret at her continued absence.
Although undated, the letter has been placed here as it was written prior to the death of Richard Glover in December 1785 and its original reference follows on from the last undated letter (HAM/1/13/10)
Original reference No. 25.
Length: 1 sheet, 127 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 4 June 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