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MS Eng 1778 169

Letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


I have an engagement which is indispensable to my
Rose trees and honeysuckles at Cowslip Green . I am going
to spend a Week in Planting my little humble Garden,
And as I do not trust any body else to plant so
much as a Pink you cannot imagine how busy I am,
and how much this occupation interests and amuses
me. Oh! if You cou'd one day see my little Cottage!
I have been cruelly disappointed; it is not yet finished
and I have never been able to sleep in it. I intend
to go to Hampton the first Week in December,
to stay there quietly with our friend, where we
paʃs the winter in a sober tete-a-tete, preparatory
to the bustle and hurry of the Spring in London.
      I shall miʃs You there sadly. but I will comf[ort]
myself with thinking that You are well and happy,
and that time and chance will re unite us.
      Pray say a great many kind and handsome
things for me to Mr. D. of whom I never
think but with pleasure.
      Adieu! my dear friend! I am with real
                             affection Your faithful
                                                         and obliged
                                                         H More
Bristol Octbr. 20
      1785

[1]
[2]

Bristol October Twentieth 17[85]
      Mrs. Dickenson
      Taxal Chapel le Frith[3]
                             [4]
                             Derbyshire
Free Webb            by Cheste[r]

[5]


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Notes


 1. This address is in the hand of John Webb, MP for Gloucester, provider of the frank.
 2. Remains of a single stamp can be found both above and below the address, together reading ‘21 OC’.
 3. Remains of a stamp, reading ‘FREE’.
 4. Remains of a stamp, reading ‘BRISTOL’.
 5. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 6. This page concerns part of the address panel after folding. Part of the letter from page 1 can also be seen.

Normalised Text


I have an engagement which is indispensable to my
Rose trees and honeysuckles at Cowslip Green . I am going
to spend a Week in Planting my little humble Garden,
And as I do not trust any body else to plant so
much as a Pink you cannot imagine how busy I am,
and how much this occupation interests and amuses
me. Oh! if You could one day see my little Cottage!
I have been cruelly disappointed; it is not yet finished
and I have never been able to sleep in it. I intend
to go to Hampton the first Week in December,
to stay there quietly with our friend, where we
pass the winter in a sober tete-a-tete, preparatory
to the bustle and hurry of the Spring in London.
      I shall miss You there sadly. but I will comfort
myself with thinking that You are well and happy,
and that time and chance will re unite us.
      Pray say a great many kind and handsome
things for me to Mr. Dickenson of whom I never
think but with pleasure.
      Adieu! my dear friend! I am with real
                             affection Your faithful
                                                         and obliged
                                                         Hannah More
Bristol October 20
      1785




Bristol October Twentieth 1785
      Mrs. Dickenson
      Taxal Chapel le Frith
                            
                             Derbyshire
Free Webb            by Chester




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 1. This address is in the hand of John Webb, MP for Gloucester, provider of the frank.
 2. Remains of a single stamp can be found both above and below the address, together reading ‘21 OC’.
 3. Remains of a stamp, reading ‘FREE’.
 4. Remains of a stamp, reading ‘BRISTOL’.
 5. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 6. This page concerns part of the address panel after folding. Part of the letter from page 1 can also be seen.

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 169

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: Bristol

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Taxal, near Chapel-en-le-Frith

Date sent: 20 October 1785

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton; Bristol, 1785 October 20.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 213 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: 26 October 2022

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