Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

MS Eng 1778 124

Letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         Hampton 6 June
                                                         1783

Ma chere Amie


      I have been expecting
a line from you in answer to my note
written a fortnight ago, to negotiate our
little Treaty for Sunday next; but not
having heard from you we construe
Silence in the usual way, and depend
on the pleasure of seeing you.
      Mrs. Garrick goes to Town to morrow
Night to be ready to bring you away
after Church on Sunday; she will call
on you at about half after One
      Adieu my dearest Madam Yours most
                             faithfully H More


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To
Miʃs Hamilton
      Clarges Street
Picadilly
                             London

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Notes


 1. This page is blank.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Remains of a gummed wafer.
 4. This addres is written vertically.
 5. Bishop mark in black ink, dated 7 June, indicating the date the letter went through the post.
 6. Postmark ‘ISLEWORTH’ in black ink.

Normalised Text


                                                         Hampton 6 June
                                                        

Ma chere Amie


      I have been expecting
a line from you in answer to my note
written a fortnight ago, to negotiate our
little Treaty for Sunday next; but not
having heard from you we construe
Silence in the usual way, and depend
on the pleasure of seeing you.
      Mrs. Garrick goes to Town to morrow
Night to be ready to bring you away
after Church on Sunday; she will call
on you at about half after One
      Adieu my dearest Madam Yours most
                             faithfully Hannah More












To
Miss Hamilton
      Clarges Street
Picadilly
                             London




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 1. This page is blank.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Remains of a gummed wafer.
 4. This addres is written vertically.
 5. Bishop mark in black ink, dated 7 June, indicating the date the letter went through the post.
 6. Postmark ‘ISLEWORTH’ in black ink.

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 124

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: Hampton

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 6 June 1783

Letter Description

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

Length: 1 sheet, 97 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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