Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miranda
I must say I love my
good Child; & shall be happy to see
her; remember you are engag'd to me
on xmas day. I feal a little offended
in not seeing you when I came to Town,
but I forgive you -- your good Father
will be glad to see his child; he has
not been quite as well this last Month,
but I thank God he looks well:
Mary has had a bowel complaint,
which lasted three Days, She is
now better but very low; ------ our friend
Ann wants to fill up the Frank. --
Adieu --
E Glover
Albemarle Street
Decr: 15th: 1783
Glovers Letters[2]
[3]
Greville.[5]
[6]
[7]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The address line and the postscript appear to the left of the signature.
2. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin of the page.
3. Seal fragment, in red wax.
4. Free frank, in red ink.
5. Signature of Charles Francis Greville MP, signatory of the free frank.
6. Bishop mark in black ink, date illegible.
7. Seal fragment, in red wax.
Normalised Text
My Dear Miranda
I must say I love my
good Child; & shall be happy to see
her; remember you are engaged to me
on Christmas day. I feel a little offended
in not seeing you when I came to Town,
but I forgive you -- your good Father
will be glad to see his child; he has
not been quite as well this last Month,
but I thank God he looks well:
Mary has had a bowel complaint,
which lasted three Days, She is
now better but very low; our friend
Ann wants to fill up the Frank. --
Adieu --
Eleanor Glover
Albemarle Street
December 15th: 1783
her Compliments Garte -
------
Bulstrode Park
Buckinghamshire
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Eleanor Glover (née Lenton) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/13/17
Correspondence Details
Sender: Eleanor Glover (née Lenton)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Gerrards Cross
Date sent: 15 December 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mrs Eleanor Glover to Mary Hamilton. She calls Hamilton her child and notes that she would love to see her and to remember that she is engaged to her for Christmas day. Glover feels offended that she did not get to see Hamilton when she visited town but forgives her. Writing on Mr Glover she notes that your 'good father will be glad to see his child' and ends the letter with news of the family's health.
Dated at Albemarle Street [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 117 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 16 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