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MS Eng 1778 121

Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Ma chere Amie

      As Mrs. Garrick
is obliged to have Company
at breakfast on thursday
we can't be with you before
twelve, and we have so
much to do, that we shall
not be able to stay as
long as we wish. I have
been so distracted with the
head ach these two days


that I am obliged to send
excuses where I was
engaged to an Aʃsembly
      Adieu dear Madam
                             ever yours
                             H More
Tuesday 6th. May 1783


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      To
Miʃs Hamilton
      Clarges St.

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Normalised Text


Ma chere Amie

      As Mrs. Garrick
is obliged to have Company
at breakfast on thursday
we can't be with you before
twelve, and we have so
much to do, that we shall
not be able to stay as
long as we wish. I have
been so distracted with the
head ache these two days


that I am obliged to send
excuses where I was
engaged to an Assembly
      Adieu dear Madam
                             ever yours
                             Hannah More
Tuesday






      To
Miss Hamilton
      Clarges Street

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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 121

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 6 May 1783

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1783 May 6.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 81 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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