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HAM/1/15/1/1(6)

Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

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My dear -- I dine with Mrs Wal: on Sunday -- & hope she will
be so good as to set me down at your House at 8 -- ask her this
Evening from me whether she can, & let me know, that I may
order some other conveyance, if not -- pray tell her that I am
sorry I cannot meet you there tonight, as its being my only coach
night for about a week, I have several neceʃs: Visits to make
some of busineʃs -- adieu my dear your affec: CMG --
      Perhaps you could call on me at Mrs Wal: & carry me to your
                                                         House
1st Janry 1785.

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Normalised Text


My dear -- I dine with Mrs Walsingham on Sunday -- & hope she will
be so good as to set me down at your House at 8 -- ask her this
Evening from me whether she can, & let me know, that I may
order some other conveyance, if not -- pray tell her that I am
sorry I cannot meet you there tonight, as its being my only coach
night for about a week, I have several necessary Visits to make
some of business -- adieu my dear your affectionate Charlotte Margaret Gunning --
      Perhaps you could call on me at Mrs Walsingham & carry me to your
                                                         House

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Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/1/1(6)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 1 January 1785

Letter Description

Summary: The note relates to a dinner Gunning is to attend.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 105 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: 31 August 2023

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