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MS Eng 1778 179

Letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Mrs. Garrick after having
made engagements for every day this week
is gone off to Hampton for the rest of the week
and has left me to pay them which I am very
ill able to do, having been very ill since I saw
You. It is indeed an age since I have seen
Mrs. Walsingham. I shall be happy to wait
on her next tuesday, and so I dare say will
Mrs. Garrick; but for her I never answer
as Mrs. W. knows. I will keep myself disengaged
for Tuesday till I hear her commands; & I
dont know that Mrs. G. has any engagement;
Wednesday and Thursday we are both engaged
      I will wait on Mrs. W. the first morning
I am able to walk so far. Adieu! I hope
to call on You soon. Glad Baby's better.
                             Your affectionate H More
Wednesday 10th April 1788[1]



                To
      Mrs. Dickenso[n]
No. 5 George Stre[et][2]
      Han: Squ[are][3]

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Notes


 1. As 10 April was a Thursday, this is presumably the date of receipt.
 2. This is not present-day George Street but present-day St. George Street, in Mayfair.
 3. This address is written vertically at the top of the page.

Normalised Text


      Mrs. Garrick after having
made engagements for every day this week
is gone off to Hampton for the rest of the week
and has left me to pay them which I am very
ill able to do, having been very ill since I saw
You. It is indeed an age since I have seen
Mrs. Walsingham. I shall be happy to wait
on her next tuesday, and so I dare say will
Mrs. Garrick; but for her I never answer
as Mrs. Walsingham knows. I will keep myself disengaged
for Tuesday till I hear her commands; & I
don't know that Mrs. Garrick has any engagement;
Wednesday and Thursday we are both engaged
      I will wait on Mrs. Walsingham the first morning
I am able to walk so far. Adieu! I hope
to call on You soon. Glad Baby's better.
                             Your affectionate Hannah More
Wednesday



                To
      Mrs. Dickenson
No. 5 George Street
      Hanover Square

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 1. As 10 April was a Thursday, this is presumably the date of receipt.
 2. This is not present-day George Street but present-day St. George Street, in Mayfair.
 3. This address is written vertically at the top of the page.

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 179

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 9 April 1788

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1788 April 9.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 154 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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