Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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MS Eng 1778 160

Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Mrs. Ord who is much engaged on
friday wishes to have the breakfasting Party
at your house on thursday -- if you settle
it so Mrs. G. and[1] will be agreeable; but
this misfortune will attend it that Thursday
can produce no Hampton cream. If we
hear nothing to the contrary we shall
come on thursday, but if it is adjourned to
another day you will let us know, as in
that case Mrs. G. will go to Hampton.
      Pray let me have the names of Mr. Fisher's eight
                to put in my list     Yrs. ever    H. M——



                                                         Miʃs Hamilton

13th- March 1785
H. More[2]

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Notes


 1. Presumably ʻIʼ was intended after ʻandʼ.
 2. This annotation is written vertically at the bottom right of the page.

Normalised Text


      Mrs. Ord who is much engaged on
friday wishes to have the breakfasting Party
at your house on thursday -- if you settle
it so Mrs. Garrick and will be agreeable; but
this misfortune will attend it that Thursday
can produce no Hampton cream. If we
hear nothing to the contrary we shall
come on thursday, but if it is adjourned to
another day you will let us know, as in
that case Mrs. Garrick will go to Hampton.
      Pray let me have the names of Mr. Fisher's eight
                to put in my list     Yours ever    Hannah More



                                                         Miss Hamilton


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 1. Presumably ʻIʼ was intended after ʻandʼ.
 2. This annotation is written vertically at the bottom right of the page.

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 160

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 13 March 1785

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1785 March 13.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 99 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: 25 October 2022

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