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LWL Mss Vol. 75(10)

Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

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I think I long to see you my Dear Miʃs Hamilton
to congratulate you on being initiated into the
Science of Conchyliology which I am sure you
will do Honour to, from what I have heard reported
of you, from the fountain head; but I have many
reasons to wish to see you, among the number
to enquire very particularly after Lady Char: Finch
as I hear she has had an indifferent acct of Ld Wa
health and I sincerely feel for her and Mrs Fielding
      I fear this is an impertinent interruption
to yr presprecious moments. I am tolerably well for
my tottering state and only allow'd the Liberty
of seeing ye quintescence of my acquaintance
truly I have no reason to complain but of
my abominable Pen and Ink --
                             this requires no ansr.
                                                         M:Delany
2d Feb. 1781


To Miʃs Hamilton
St James's Palace

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I think I long to see you my Dear Miss Hamilton
to congratulate you on being initiated into the
Science of Conchology which I am sure you
will do Honour to, from what I have heard reported
of you, from the fountain head; but I have many
reasons to wish to see you, among the number
to enquire very particularly after Lady Charlotte Finch
as I hear she has had an indifferent account of Lord Winchilsea
health and I sincerely feel for her and Mrs Fielding
      I fear this is an impertinent interruption
to your precious moments. I am tolerably well for
my tottering state and only allowed the Liberty
of seeing the quintessence of my acquaintance
truly I have no reason to complain but of
my abominable Pen and Ink --
                             this requires no answer
                                                         Mary Delany
2d February


To Miss Hamilton
St James's Palace

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Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(10)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 2 February 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, in which Delany congratulates Hamilton on 'being initiated into the Science of Conchyliology'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 145 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 11 January 2021)

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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