Diplomatic Text
[1]
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a bad headach yesty prevented my sending my Dr Miʃs Hamn
a line of congratulation on ye return of a day so infinitly valuable.[2] 15b
I feel its consequence too much to expreʃs and am as little able to do
justice to the flow of good wishes that it may prove every year
a Bleʃsing to Her who is a Bleʃsing to all[3] -- I expect yu
& yr gentleman according to promise, here at what hour yu
please you will find yr most affctte humble Sert
MDelany
St. James's Place Sunday 20th. May 1781
[4]
To
Miʃs Hamilton[5]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This note appears in Llanover (1862: 22).
2. The birthday of Queen Charlotte (19 May). A similar wording by Mary Delany is used in LWL Mss Vol. 75(28), where she congratulates Mary Hamilton 'on the return of this day'.
3. See LWL Mss Vol. 75(28) for a similar wording pertaining to Queen Charlotte.
4. Evidence of a seal in red wax.
5. The address is written upside down, along the bottom margin of the page.
Normalised Text
a bad headache yesterday prevented my sending my Dear Miss Hamilton
a line of congratulation on the return of a day so infinitely valuable.
I feel its consequence too much to express and am as little able to do
justice to the flow of good wishes that it may prove every year
a Blessing to Her who is a Blessing to all -- I expect you
& your gentleman according to promise, here at what hour you
please you will find your most affectionate humble Servant
Mary Delany
St. James's Place Sunday
To
Miss Hamilton
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
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(15)
Correspondence Details
Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 20 May 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, in which she explains that she was not able to send Hamilton 'a line of congratulation' on the Queen's birthday the day before because of a bad headache.
Length: 1 sheet, 94 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 14 January 2021)
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Revision date: 2 November 2021