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HAM/1/15/1/1(2)

Incomplete note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


2d. June 1781

      My dear Miranda, I came to you
this Morning according to our appointment
but your Maid did not seem inclined to let
me in -- I have been setting all the morning
in the drawing room surrounded with people
&c My head is quite distracted       I begin to
      cough -- I am now at Arg. house[1]
I shall write a note to you every day
      but if you go Tuesday am afraid I
      shall not see you before you go[2]

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Notes


 1. Argyll House was the home of the Duchess of Argyll, Elizabeth Hamilton Campbell (née Gunning), to whom the Gunnings were related through John Gunning of Castle Coote, great-grandfather of both Sir Robert Gunning and Lady Argyll.
 2. The remainder of this note is missing.

Normalised Text


2d. June 1781

      My dear Miranda, I came to you
this Morning according to our appointment
but your Maid did not seem inclined to let
me in -- I have been sitting all the morning
in the drawing room surrounded with people
&c My head is quite distracted       I begin to
      cough -- I am now at Argyll house
I shall write a note to you every day
      but if you go Tuesday am afraid I
      shall not see you before you go

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 1. Argyll House was the home of the Duchess of Argyll, Elizabeth Hamilton Campbell (née Gunning), to whom the Gunnings were related through John Gunning of Castle Coote, great-grandfather of both Sir Robert Gunning and Lady Argyll.
 2. The remainder of this note is missing.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Incomplete note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/1/1(2)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 2 June 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Gunning writes that she came to visit Hamilton as arranged, but Hamilton's maid would not allow her access. Gunning writes that she will send Hamilton a note each day.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 81 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 13 October 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: 28 September 2023

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