Diplomatic Text
I will make no rash vow, nor fly into a
paʃsion, but send for a frank to thank my dear Mr
Mr.. Dickenson for his kind & Affectionate letter, I have
seldom met with a true friend, but I now have in
you & will pay the greatest attention to all your
Criticism, dont imagine that I think you a severe
critic for I really do not, I well know I merit
the rebuke you sent me. I am very angry with
my dear Anna Maria, for had she been as attentive
to me as you have been, I should before this
have been better able to have kept up a corres-
-pondence with you, I will no - t be afraid, but
write to you as usual begging that you will
correct me as you find occasion, which I fear
will be too often the case, but you may
depend upon it I will be more attentive to
my manner of writing. I must write a
few lines to dear Mrs. D.. therefore will only
give my mothers love to you & Mrs. Lenton's best
compts. & believe me more than ever
your obliged Friend
Mary Glover
My Mother was as much
pleased as I was with your letter & thanks you.
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1786
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Normalised Text
I will make no rash vow, nor fly into a
passion, but send for a frank to thank my dear
Mr.. Dickenson for his kind & Affectionate letter, I have
seldom met with a true friend, but I now have in
you & will pay the greatest attention to all your
Criticism, don't imagine that I think you a severe
critic for I really do not, I well know I merit
the rebuke you sent me. I am very angry with
my dear Anna Maria, for had she been as attentive
to me as you have been, I should before this
have been better able to have kept up a correspondence
with you, I will not be afraid, but
write to you as usual begging that you will
correct me as you find occasion, which I fear
will be too often the case, but you may
depend upon it I will be more attentive to
my manner of writing. I must write a
few lines to dear Mrs. Dickenson therefore will only
give my mothers love to you & Mrs. Lenton's best
compliments & believe me more than ever
your obliged Friend
Mary Glover
My Mother was as much
pleased as I was with your letter & thanks you.
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 Mary Glover to John Dickenson
Shelfmark: HAM/1/13/35
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Glover
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: John Dickenson
Place received: unknown
Date sent: May 1786
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Glover to John Dickenson, thanking him for his letter. She writes that she will take note of all his criticisms and that she does not consider him severe noting that she deserves the rebuke he sent and that she will be more attentive to her 'manner of writing'.
Length: 1 sheet, 214 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 17 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: 5 January 2022