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LWL Mss Vol. 75(56)

Note from Georgina Mary Anne Port on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


49a

Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      AD desires yto know how you
do to day. she is better for the rain -- begs you
will send her word exactly what you wd- have
her say to the Dʃ D of P—— about Westminster
Abbey[1] -- Adieu ever your Obliged
                             G MAPort
24th. May 1784


      Mr. Cauderoy Caroline Street[2]
                             Bedford Square -- [3]

To
Miʃs Hamilton
Clarges St[4]

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Notes


 1. This seems to be the excursion mentioned in LWL Mss Vol. 75(50)
 2. Now Adeline Place, between Bedford Square and Great Russell Street.
 3. William Cowderoy was a tea merchant and grocer, whose shop was on the corner of Great Russell Street and Caroline Street.
 4. This address has been fragmented by unfolding.

Normalised Text



Dear Miss Hamilton
      Aunt Delany desires to know how you
do to day. she is better for the rain -- begs you
will send her word exactly what you would have
her say to the Duchess Dowager of Portland about Westminster
Abbey -- Adieu ever your Obliged
                             Georgina Mary Anne Port





To
Miss Hamilton
Clarges St

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 1. This seems to be the excursion mentioned in LWL Mss Vol. 75(50)
 2. Now Adeline Place, between Bedford Square and Great Russell Street.
 3. William Cowderoy was a tea merchant and grocer, whose shop was on the corner of Great Russell Street and Caroline Street.
 4. This address has been fragmented by unfolding.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

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

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(56)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Georgina Mary Anne Waddington (née Port)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 24 May 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Georgina Mary Anne Port on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, expressing Delany's desire to know how Hamilton is doing, and if Hamilton could tell her what she would have her say to the Duchess Dowager of Portland about Westminster Abbey.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 54 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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