Diplomatic Text
8th. Octbr. 1781
Thank you my Love for the Sattin -- I shall
not want any thing else -- I can only write a line
or two -- my Spirits are so agitated that I cannot
attend to any thing just at present -- Yo. will feel
for me when I tell You Dr. Mr. Glovers being very
ill is the occasion of it -- I was at Sunning Hill
Yesterday -- his complaint is ye Gout in his Stomach
wch. at all times is a most alarming disorder but
at his Years (for he just turn'd seventy) there
every reason to fear the worst -- I am calld to
Dinner Adieu I send a letter from Ldy. M H
return it -- Ad[ieu] [my Dr. Dr. Friend][1]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. There is enough visible to reconstruct the last five words; cf. HAM/1/15/2/20(4). The remainder of this note has been cut and is missing. An annotation from the top of HAM/1/15/2/20(3) is visible below the bottom of the sheet.
Normalised Text
8th. October 1781
Thank you my Love for the Satin -- I shall
not want any thing else -- I can only write a line
or two -- my Spirits are so agitated that I cannot
attend to any thing just at present -- You will feel
for me when I tell You Dear Mr. Glovers being very
ill is the occasion of it -- I was at Sunning Hill
Yesterday -- his complaint is the Gout in his Stomach
which at all times is a most alarming disorder but
at his Years (for he just turned seventy) there
every reason to fear the worst -- I am called to
Dinner Adieu I send a letter from Lady Mary Hume
return it -- Adieu my Dear Dear Friend
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning
Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/2/20(2)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 8 October 1781
Letter Description
Summary: This note is dated 8 October 1781 and in it Hamilton writes of her agitation of spirits and of her
concern for Mr Glover (see HAM/1/13) who is very ill. The note details Glover's illness.
Original reference No. 17.
Length: 1 sheet, 120 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 14 October 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 28 January 2025