Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

LWL Mss Vol. 75(30)

Copy of note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         27a
Monday 9 o'Clock
21 Janry. 1782
      I keep the Spinning Wheel till I can give
      you a leʃson on it before it arrives at its
      highest Honor
      Were it sensible of its station how enviable
      would it be, Happy Wheel!
      I am well to day hope those I love so much
      Love & Honour are so perfectly so

Copy of a
Note to me
from Dr
Mrs. Delany
ye. original
I sent wth ye
extracts t[o] Mary[1]

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Normalised Text


                                                        
Monday 9 o'Clock
21 January 1782
      I keep the Spinning Wheel till I can give
      you a lesson on it before it arrives at its
      highest Honour
      Were it sensible of its station how enviable
      would it be, Happy Wheel!
      I am well to day hope those I so much
      Love & Honour are so perfectly so

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 1. This annotation appears in the left-hand margin, to the left of the copied note.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Copy of note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(30)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 21 January 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Copy of note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton (by Hamilton), in which Delany mentions keeping the Spinning Wheel till she can give Hamilton 'a lesson on it before it arrives at its highest Honor'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 57 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 20 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 23 December 2021

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