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

Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dearest, I thank you for your note and little journal -- your
time seems to be as compleatly employed and taken up as mine
tho' rather more agreeably -- How can you name Thursday & Friday
two of the Days on which I always must be engaged -- I know not
when we shall meet as you are so all this Week -- will you
dine with us on Monday? & stay till ¼ after 7 when I go to the
Queen's House -- pray do -- I am very sorry that the Busineʃs
on which Mr D. was to come to Town is not forward enough for
him -- I am out of patience with this foolish Estate --
adieu my dear, I have a violent headache today which
I am going to carry to & increase at the Drawingrooms & Play.
                             yours &c CMG --
      24th. Febry. 1785

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My dearest, I thank you for your note and little journal -- your
time seems to be as completely employed and taken up as mine
though rather more agreeably -- How can you name Thursday & Friday
two of the Days on which I always must be engaged -- I know not
when we shall meet as you are so all this Week -- will you
dine with us on Monday? & stay till ¼ after 7 when I go to the
Queen's House -- pray do -- I am very sorry that the Business
on which Mr Dickenson was to come to Town is not forward enough for
him -- I am out of patience with this foolish Estate --
adieu my dear, I have a violent headache today which
I am going to carry to & increase at the Drawingrooms & Play.
                             yours &c Charlotte Margaret Gunning --
     

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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(5)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 24 February 1785

Letter Description

Summary: In this note Gunning thanks Hamilton for her note and journal commenting that she seems to be as busy as she is herself. She also writes of business with a Mr D. and notes that she is loosing 'patience with this foolish Estate'.
    Original reference No. 4.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 141 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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