Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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MS Eng 1778 145

Letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Friend


      It is an age since
I have seen you. -- Mrs. G. desires her
love to you and begs your Company
at dinner next Saturday, and begs
You will let the inclosed be given
to Sir Wm. Hamilton and get his Answer
as soon as poʃsible. Shou'd he be
engaged at dinner perhaps he wou'd
come in the Evening. Will you settle
all that; we shall have a few of his
and your friends.    I hope to see You
very soon -- Yours affectionately
                                                         H More
      Sunday 28th. March 1784


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Normalised Text


My dear Friend


      It is an age since
I have seen you. -- Mrs. Garrick desires her
love to you and begs your Company
at dinner next Saturday, and begs
You will let the enclosed be given
to Sir William and get his Answer
as soon as possible. Should he be
engaged at dinner perhaps he would
come in the Evening. Will you settle
all that; we shall have a few of his
and your friends.    I hope to see You
very soon -- Yours affectionately
                                                         Hannah More
      Sunday



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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: Letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 145

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 28 March 1784

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1784 March 28.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 87 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: 19 October 2022

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