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HAM/1/15/2/17

Letter from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning

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                             Babel -- 4th. July 1781

How grieved I am my beloved friend
that you have been so alarmed on my
Account, but it was unavoidable, I
thought at all events it was better for
you to hear from another than to suffer
the torment of suspense. I thank God
I am recovering very fast -- every
tender attention has been paid to Your
friend
-- Sr. R. Jebb & Mr. Keate attended
me; my Illneʃs was a Nervous & Bilious
Fever -- I am much reduced in strength
tho' not I think in appearance.
Ah how ardently I wish I were with
you at H., & how delighted I feel
that You are so well -- write to me every



post if but two lines -- You have no idea
what a comfort it ist to me to hear from
You -- Sr. Wm. W. must give you franks for
us both, I have none to you at H.
Their M—— went to Leuctra this Morng
AttoʃsaPrinceʃs Royal on my Acct. is left behind -- she
will till Friday spend her time at the
Lower Lodge -- Adieu I shall soon be able
to write more at a time -- Adieu my
Dearest Dearest AstreaFriend
                                                         M Hamilton

Miʃs P. has just sent me
Yor. Letter to her --

How sensibly my love do I
feel every mark of your tender
affection

4th July 1781[1]

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 1. This date is written upside down to the left of the postscript.

Normalised Text


                             Babel -- 4th. July 1781

How grieved I am my beloved friend
that you have been so alarmed on my
Account, but it was unavoidable, I
thought at all events it was better for
you to hear from another than to suffer
the torment of suspense. I thank God
I am recovering very fast -- every
tender attention has been paid to Your
friend -- Sir Robert Jebb & Mr. Keate attended
me; my Illness was a Nervous & Bilious
Fever -- I am much reduced in strength
though not I think in appearance.
Ah how ardently I wish I were with
you at Horton, & how delighted I feel
that You are so well -- write to me every



post if but two lines -- You have no idea
what a comfort it is to me to hear from
You -- Sir William Wake must give you franks for
us both, I have none to you at Horton
Their Majesties went to Leuctra this Morning
Princess Royal on my Account is left behind -- she
will till Friday spend her time at the
Lower Lodge -- Adieu I shall soon be able
to write more at a time -- Adieu my
Dearest Dearest Friend
                                                         Mary Hamilton

Miss Planta has just sent me
Your Letter to her --

How sensibly my love do I
feel every mark of your tender
affection

4th July 1781

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 1. This date is written upside down to the left of the postscript.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning

Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/2/17

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Hamilton

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 4 July 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Gunning, dated 4 July 1781. It relates to a 'nervous & Bilious fever' that Hamilton has been suffering with. Hamilton also writes that Miss P. [Planta] has just sent her Gunning's letter and that she is 'sensible' of her 'tender affections'.
    Dated at Babel.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 223 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 8 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: 22 December 2021

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