Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

MS Eng 1778 119

Letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Madam


      Mrs. Garrick desires me
to present her love to you, with the inclosed
Card which will admit you and your friends
to see Mrs. Siddons to morrow. You will I hope
happen to be disengaged, but in case you
shou'd not be able to go, you will be so
obliging as return the Card immediately.
I think it an Age since I saw you.
                             Adieu my dear Madam
                                                         Yrs. most faithfully
                                                         H More
Adelphi
      Friday 4th. April 1783


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      To
Miʃs Hamilton
      Clarges Street[4]

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Notes


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 3. Remains of a seal, in black wax.
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Normalised Text


My dear Madam


      Mrs. Garrick desires me
to present her love to you, with the enclosed
Card which will admit you and your friends
to see Mrs. Siddons to morrow. You will I hope
happen to be disengaged, but in case you
should not be able to go, you will be so
obliging as return the Card immediately.
I think it an Age since I saw you.
                             Adieu my dear Madam
                                                         Yours most faithfully
                                                         Hannah More
Adelphi
      Friday 4th. April












      To
Miss Hamilton
      Clarges Street

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 1. This page is blank.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Remains of a seal, in black wax.
 4. This address is written vertically.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Houghton Library Repository, Harvard University

Archive: Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More letters to Mary Hamilton

Item title: Letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 119

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 4 April 1783

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton; Adelphi, 1783 April 4.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 85 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First transcribed for the project 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More' (Kerri Andrews & others) and incorporated 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: Kerri Andrews, Senior Lecturer, Edge Hill University (submitted 11 August 2020)

Cataloguer: Bonnie B. Salt, Archivist, Houghton Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 17 October 2022

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