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LWL Mss Vol. 75(41)

Incomplete note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
      I am truely sensible of what 38
you have lately sufferd by my own feelings. on the
sad affliction of our most amiable and Excelent
King and Queen.[2] but their superiority of mind
which has been severly tried on many occasions --
will I trust support them under this tender one --
they have recourse to that sublime Consolation
which can never fail them -- I am impatient for[3]


                                                         MDelany
May -- May 10th. 1783

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Notes


 1. The top of the sheet has been cut away, presumably removing some of the original text.
 2. Prince Octavius, the couple's thirteenth child, had died on 3 May 1783.
 3. The rest of the note is missing; the remains of further text are visible on the line below.

Normalised Text


      I am truly sensible of what
you have lately suffered by my own feelings. on the
sad affliction of our most amiable and Excellent
King and Queen. but their superiority of mind
which has been severely tried on many occasions --
will I trust support them under this tender one --
they have recourse to that sublime Consolation
which can never fail them -- I am impatient for


                                                         Mary Delany

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 1. The top of the sheet has been cut away, presumably removing some of the original text.
 2. Prince Octavius, the couple's thirteenth child, had died on 3 May 1783.
 3. The rest of the note is missing; the remains of further text are visible on the line below.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Incomplete note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(41)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Anne Agnew (née Astley) and formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 10 May 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Incomplete note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, written by Anne Astley, in which the death of Prince Octavius is indirectly mentioned.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 67 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 21 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 28 September 2023

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