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LWL Mss Vol. 75(18)

Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

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      I am much obliged to my Dear Miʃs Hamilton
for the enclosed letter and heartily wish for still
better accounts. I should have called on you yesterday
but it was a bad Day with me; you are too busy
this morning were I able. I want to say a word
or 2 to you abt Lady Dartreey's proposal before farther
proceedings yrs. MDelany
Tuesday 22d May 1781

perhaps if not too much fatigue
you may call -- but dont embarras yourself another day
will do as well

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Notes


 1. This note appears in Llanover (1862: 22-23).

Normalised Text



      I am much obliged to my Dear Miss Hamilton
for the enclosed letter and heartily wish for still
better accounts. I should have called on you yesterday
but it was a bad Day with me; you are too busy
this morning were I able. I want to say a word
or 2 to you about Lady Dartrey's proposal before farther
proceedings yours Mary Delany
Tuesday

perhaps if not too much fatigue
you may call -- but don't embarrass yourself another day
will do as well

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 1. This note appears in Llanover (1862: 22-23).

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(18)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 22 May 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for a previous letter and wishing for 'better accounts'. Delany also apologizes to Hamilton for not calling on her the day before, and stating that she wants 'to say a word or 2' about 'Lady Dartrey's proposal'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 84 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)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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