Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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MS Eng 1778 162

Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Friend
▼
      An opportunity this
moment presents itself to send you
some more proposals, but they hardly
allow me time to write a word. Dont
be alarmed at my sending two
Dozen; you may always return what
you dont use. -- I rejoyce that
you have enlisted so many brave
Academical Volunteers into our
service. -- What a charming day

Miʃs Hamilton[1]


you must have had in Portman Square
I know no one that has more
true genuine wit than Mr. Jenyns
something I think of the sly grave
humour of Addison. --
      You say nothing of yourself, I
therefore hope you are better
and that every thing goes on
smoothly. -- Love to dear Mrs.
Vesey -- Yours affectionately
                                                         H M
▼
      Hampton 189th. Janry. 1785.
Mrs. G.'s best love[2]

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Normalised Text


My dear Friend
▼
      An opportunity this
moment presents itself to send you
some more proposals, but they hardly
allow me time to write a word. Don't
be alarmed at my sending two
Dozen; you may always return what
you don't use. -- I rejoice that
you have enlisted so many brave
Academical Volunteers into our
service. -- What a charming day

Miss Hamilton


you must have had in Portman Square
I know no one that has more
true genuine wit than Mr. Jenyns
something I think of the sly grave
humour of Addison. --
      You say nothing of yourself, I
therefore hope you are better
and that every thing goes on
smoothly. -- Love to dear Mrs.
Vesey -- Yours affectionately
                                                         Hannah More
▼
      Hampton
Mrs. Garrick's best love

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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 162

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: Hampton

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 19 January 1785

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton; Hampton, 1785 January 19.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 123 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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