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LWL Mss Vol. 75(33)

Letter from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      It is very mortifying to me that I cannot
be an aʃsistant to Mrs Goldsworthy's charitable
undertaking but the truth is I am engaged in
favour of a poor clergyman which has at least
for some time exhausted the little interest I
can pretend to -- hope to be so Happy as to
see you some part of this Evening, am much
better & see a few choice Friends ever yrs affectly
                                                         MD:
My young people root and
branch are charm'd wth. Miʃs Hamilton
at this time I believe in the Whispering Galery
St Paul's
11th May 1782 Saturday

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                             To
                             Miʃs Hamilton
                             St. James's Palace
11. May. 82.[1]

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 1. This annotation is written vertically in the right-hand margin.
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text


      It is very mortifying to me that I cannot
be an assistant to Mrs Goldsworthy's charitable
undertaking but the truth is I am engaged in
favour of a poor clergyman which has at least
for some time exhausted the little interest I
can pretend to -- hope to be so Happy as to
see you some part of this Evening, am much
better & see a few choice Friends ever yours affectionately
                                                         Mary Delany
My young people root and
branch are charmed with Miss Hamilton
at this time I believe in the Whispering Gallery
St Paul's
Saturday



                             To
                             Miss Hamilton
                             St. James's Palace

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 1. This annotation is written vertically in the right-hand margin.
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Letter from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(33)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 11 May 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, explaining that she cannot join in "Mrs Goldsworthy's charitable undertaking" as she is "engaged in favour of a poor clergyman".
   

Length: 1 sheet, 102 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 20 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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