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LWL Mss Vol. 75(54)

Note from Anne Astley on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

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      St James Place Friday noon 20th. Feby. 1784

Mrs Delanys best Compliments to Miʃs Hamelton
she has been hurried with Company this
morning -- or she should have thanked Her -- for
Her kind enquiries last night -- the Evening of
which Mrs D spent very Pleasantly -- and finds
Her self better than she Expected to day --
Hopes to see Miʃs Hamelton on Sunday afternoon
      Written by Mrs- Astley.

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Miʃs
Ham[ilton][3]

written by Mrs Astley[4]


20. Feb. 84[5]

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Normalised Text


      St James Place Friday noon

Mrs Delanys best Compliments to Miss Hamelton
she has been hurried with Company this
morning -- or she should have thanked Her -- for
Her kind enquiries last night -- the Evening of
which Mrs Delany spent very Pleasantly -- and finds
Her self better than she Expected to day --
Hopes to see Miss Hamelton on Sunday afternoon






Miss
Hamilton



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 1. This annotation is written vertically.
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 3. The address line is written vertically.
 4. This annotation is written vertically.
 5. This annotation is written vertically.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note from Anne Astley on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(54)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Anne Agnew (née Astley)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 20 February 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Anne Astley on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, thanking Hamilton 'for Her kind enquiries last night', and informing her that Delany 'hopes to see Miss Hamelton on Sunday afternoon'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 61 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 25 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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