Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

MS Eng 1778 151

Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My love to Miʃs Burney when You see her
      Mrs. G. is just come into my Room
She bids me say Your Orange Tree[1] is
in perfect health, but is not disposed
to be prolific -- It must be budded



[2]Hamilton
[Clar]ges Street[3]

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)


Notes


 1. Hamilton gave Mrs Garrick her orange tree on 1 May 1783 (see HAM/2/2), to keep in her hothouse. For another comment relating to her orange tree see MS Eng 1778 141.
 2. Most likely ‘Miſs’ was written before ‘Hamilton’.
 3. This address is written vertically.

Normalised Text


My love to Miss Burney when You see her
      Mrs. Garrick is just come into my Room
She bids me say Your Orange Tree is
in perfect health, but is not disposed
to be prolific -- It must be budded



Hamilton
Clarges Street

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. Hamilton gave Mrs Garrick her orange tree on 1 May 1783 (see HAM/2/2), to keep in her hothouse. For another comment relating to her orange tree see MS Eng 1778 141.
 2. Most likely ‘Miſs’ was written before ‘Hamilton’.
 3. 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: Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 151

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: Hampton (certainty: medium)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: between May 1783 and 1789
notBefore May 1783 (precision: high)
notAfter 1789 (precision: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (fragment, unsigned) to Mary Hamilton, undated.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 42 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: 6 June 2023

Document Image (pdf)