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MS Eng 1778 183

Letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Friend


      We shall be extremely
happy to receive You and Yours on friday,
to paʃs the day and Night. Tho our
accommodations are but scanty, and our
hoʃpitality is of course abridged, yet we
shall have a comfortable room for you
and Mr. D -- and a little Cell for dear
Louisa, and as Popery is getting so much
into fashion it will prepare her for a
Niche in a Convent, if the emancipation
should lead her hereafter to take the Veil.
      With best regards to your little party --
           I am ever
                My dear Mrs. Dickenson
                             affectionately yours
                                                         H. More
Barley Wood[1] tuesday Night
6 o clock -- Your letter just received
      I have desired Revd. Mr. Hoare to trouble you
with a small parcel for me to be sent to You on
                                                         thursday


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Notes


 1. Barley Wood House in Wrington, near Cowslip Green, which Hannah More had built in 1801 on the Barley Wood estate, which she had owned since 1784. She moved in with her sisters and stayed there until 1828, after which she moved to Bristol.
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Normalised Text


My dear Friend


      We shall be extremely
happy to receive You and Yours on friday,
to pass the day and Night. Though our
accommodations are but scanty, and our
hospitality is of course abridged, yet we
shall have a comfortable room for you
and Mr. Dickenson -- and a little Cell for dear
Louisa, and as Popery is getting so much
into fashion it will prepare her for a
Niche in a Convent, if the emancipation
should lead her hereafter to take the Veil.
      With best regards to your little party --
           I am ever
                My dear Mrs. Dickenson
                             affectionately yours
                                                         Hannah More
Barley Wood tuesday Night
6 o'clock -- Your letter just received
      I have desired Reverend Mr. Hoare to trouble you
with a small parcel for me to be sent to You on
                                                         thursday



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 1. Barley Wood House in Wrington, near Cowslip Green, which Hannah More had built in 1801 on the Barley Wood estate, which she had owned since 1784. She moved in with her sisters and stayed there until 1828, after which she moved to Bristol.
 2. This page is blank.

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 183

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: Wrington

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between 1807 and 26 January 1815
notBefore 1807 (precision: high)
notAfter 26 January 1815 (precision: high)

Letter Description

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

Length: 1 sheet, 133 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: 1 November 2022

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