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LWL Mss Vol. 75(59)

Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

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My Dear Miʃs Hamilton I feel I must
go to Glanville tomorrow, my Spirits wont
bear another Desolated Day in this House
but I wish you coud bestow an Hour upon
Me tomorrow Morning shoud the Day Prove
Fair -- as I don't Propose going before 5 o Clock
-- our Dear Friend is Just gone believe me
      most affectionately yours --
--
                             MD

I shared this afternoon with Mrs Sandford --
25th. July 1784


Mrs Delany July
25th. -- 84[1]
[2]

To
      Miʃs Hamilton
      Clarges Street

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 1. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin.
 2. Remains of a red seal or gummed wafer.

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My Dear Miss Hamilton I feel I must
go to Glanville tomorrow, my Spirits won't
bear another Desolated Day in this House
but I wish you could bestow an Hour upon
Me tomorrow Morning should the Day Prove
Fair -- as I don't Propose going before 5 o'Clock
-- our Dear Friend is Just gone believe me
      most affectionately yours --
--
                             Mary Delany

I shared this afternoon with Mrs Sandford --






To
      Miss Hamilton
      Clarges Street

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 1. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin.
 2. Remains of a red seal or gummed wafer.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(59)

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 25 July 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, informing her that she is not well and that she is planning to leave for Glanville the next day.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 72 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 11 March 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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