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HAM/1/16/15

Note from Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
My dear Miʃs Hamilton

      Lady Stormont came to Me this Morning, & Insists
on My coming to Her tomorrow Evening -- I pleaded Engage=
=ment to you; -- She desires you will be of the Party --
If It is agreable to you; will call for you; at ½ past
Seven tomorrow Evening -- If this does not find you at
Home; dont give Yourself the Trouble of Sending -- If
I dont Hear from you; Shall expect you agree to our
Spending the Evening in Portland Place; -- Lady Stormont
will not come out; as She has a cold -- I saw Sr. William
Hamilton Yesterday Evening -- He had been so good as to
call twice before, & I was out; He told Me He saw
you; Saturday -- I have the pleasure to tell You; that
I have at Length Obtained consent to See My Mother


& that I have Spent all the Morning wt. Her; -- which Makes
Me very Happy, & I flatter Myself is some Comfort
to Her; -- I am dear Miʃs Hamilton ever Yrs. FHarpur

Novbr-
Monday 10th- 1783

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Notes


 1. The next letter after this one in the HAM/1/16 set would be HAM/1/16/18, as a result of the reassignment of HAM/1/16/16 and HAM/1/16/17 to William Wake rather than Frances Harpur, where they are sequenced between HAM/1/8/8/10 and HAM/1/8/8/11.

Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton

      Lady Stormont came to Me this Morning, & Insists
on My coming to Her tomorrow Evening -- I pleaded Engagement
 to you; -- She desires you will be of the Party --
If It is agreeable to you; will call for you; at ½ past
Seven tomorrow Evening -- If this does not find you at
Home; don't give Yourself the Trouble of Sending -- If
I don't Hear from you; Shall expect you agree to our
Spending the Evening in Portland Place; -- Lady Stormont
will not come out; as She has a cold -- I saw Sir William
Hamilton Yesterday Evening -- He had been so good as to
call twice before, & I was out; He told Me He saw
you; Saturday -- I have the pleasure to tell You; that
I have at Length Obtained consent to See My Mother


& that I have Spent all the Morning with Her; -- which Makes
Me very Happy, & I flatter Myself is some Comfort
to Her; -- I am dear Miss Hamilton ever Yours Frances Harpur


Monday 10th-

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 1. The next letter after this one in the HAM/1/16 set would be HAM/1/16/18, as a result of the reassignment of HAM/1/16/16 and HAM/1/16/17 to William Wake rather than Frances Harpur, where they are sequenced between HAM/1/8/8/10 and HAM/1/8/8/11.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/16/15

Correspondence Details

Sender: Frances Elizabeth Harpur (née Greville)

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 10 November 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Lady Frances Harpur to Mary Hamilton, arranging to meet Hamilton. She notes that she saw Sir William Hamilton (HAM/1/4/4) yesterday evening and that he had called on the Harpurs twice before.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 174 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: Kanwal Habib, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted 31 August 2022)

Transliterator: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, editorial team (completed 3 October 2022)

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: 9 June 2023

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