Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

MS Eng 1778 120

Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Friend

      Mrs. G's Box
will hold five in the
front Row if you leave
your Court hoop at
home. A Man or so
who can stand may do
very well behind.
      You have only to deliver
the Card at the Door and
desire to be conducted to
Mrs. Garrick's Box -- no
bribery or corruption  ------ 


be attempted.
      I hope to see you very
 ------ soon. Mrs. G is tempted
by this fine day into the
Country, I cou'd not go with
her as I am engaged
                             Yrs. most faithfully
                                                         H More
65th. April
      1783[1]


[2]
[3]


To
Miʃs Hamilton[4]

[5]

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Notes


 1. This annotation appears to the left of the salutation.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Remains of a seal or gummed wafer.
 4. This address is written vertically.
 5. Remains of a seal or gummed wafer.

Normalised Text


My dear Friend

      Mrs. Garrick's Box
will hold five in the
front Row if you leave
your Court hoop at
home. A Man or so
who can stand may do
very well behind.
      You have only to deliver
the Card at the Door and
desire to be conducted to
Mrs. Garrick's Box -- no
bribery or corruption


be attempted.
      I hope to see you very
soon. Mrs. Garrick is tempted
by this fine day into the
Country, I could not go with
her as I am engaged
                             Yours most faithfully
                                                         Hannah More







To
Miss Hamilton


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 1. This annotation appears to the left of the salutation.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Remains of a seal or gummed wafer.
 4. This address is written vertically.
 5. Remains of a seal or gummed wafer.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Houghton Library Repository, Harvard University

Archive: Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More letters to Mary Hamilton

Item title: Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 120

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 5 April 1783

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1783 April 5.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 94 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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