Diplomatic Text
[1]
------------------------ [2] -- we go on Tuesday --
all ye. Family here expcept Osyris & Rhea (who whent
to Babel this Morng. & return Monday to dinner --
Pray send in my name to Lady Mary Colley a great Aunt
of mine who lives in ye. Circus[3] wth. her Brother Mr. C. Hamilton[4]
& enquire after her Health -- & tell me something
about ym if you hear any thing or see any thing of
ym- My best Compts. to Sir R. & love to Bell
Adieu Adieu -- depend upon my writing on
Monday ------ [5]
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Notes
1. Hamilton sent letters to Gunning in Bath in November and December 1779 (see HAM/1/15/2/1(2) p.2 footnote and HAM/1/15/2/4(2), and in a letter of 24 March 1780 she mentions Gunning's recent return from Bath (HAM/1/15/2/31 p.10). The present note may well belong to the period November 1779-March 1780, therefore, but in a letter of August 1780, Hamilton refers to another visit to Bath planned by Gunning (see HAM/1/15/2/11 p.5), so the proposed dating cannot be certain.
2. The top-left corner of the note is cut away.
3. ‘The Circus is a historic ring of large townhouses in the city of Bath, [...] forming a circle with three entrances. Designed by architect John Wood, the Elder, it was built between 1754 and 1768’ (Wikipedia).
4. Charles Hamilton owned a house in Bath.
5. The note has been cut away.
Normalised Text
------------------------ -- we go on Tuesday --
all the Family here except Osyris & Rhea (who went
to Babel this Morning & return Monday to dinner --
Pray send in my name to Lady Mary Colley a great Aunt
of mine who lives in the Circus with her Brother Mr. Charles Hamilton
& enquire after her Health -- & tell me something
about them if you hear any thing or see any thing of
them My best Compliments to Sir Robert & love to Bell
Adieu Adieu -- depend upon my writing on
Monday ------
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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/1/15/2/29(4)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)
Place received: Bath (certainty: medium)
Date sent: between November 1779 and March 1780
notBefore October 1779 (precision: low)
notAfter March 1780 (precision: low)
Letter Description
Summary: This undated note informs that the
Royal Family have gone to 'Babel' this morning and return on Monday
for dinner. Hamilton also writes with enquiries of her great aunt, Lady Mary
Colley, who is the sister of Charles Hamilton.
Original reference No. 26.
Length: 1 sheet, 88 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
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Revision date: 27 January 2025