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HAM/1/15/1/5(3)

Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


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6th. Febry 1785

      How are you my dear?
I hope continuing to receive good
accounts -- Will you dine with us
on Wednesday, or come very early in
the Evening -- to stay with us till we
go to Ly Buckinghams, I have been
engaged since I saw you either with
the Queen or my Fr. except one Day
that I spent with Mrs Harcourt
      What have you done -- we should
have met on Friday if Mrs M—— had
asked me -- Bell & I went home -- adieu!

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      How are you my dear?
I hope continuing to receive good
accounts -- Will you dine with us
on Wednesday, or come very early in
the Evening -- to stay with us till we
go to Lady Buckinghams, I have been
engaged since I saw you either with
the Queen or my Father except one Day
that I spent with Mrs Harcourt
      What have you done -- we should
have met on Friday if Mrs M—— had
asked me -- Bell & I went home -- adieu!

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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/1/15/1/5(3)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 6 February 1785

Letter Description

Summary: In this note, Gunning tells Hamilton of what she has been doing, including a visit to Lady Buckingham and being 'engaged' with the Queen.
    Original reference No. 4.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 82 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 18 September 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 April 2023

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