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LWL Mss Vol. 75(67)

Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


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59

      can you dine with me to day
My Dear Miʃs Hamelton it woud
be very Comfortable and the Dutcheʃs
D of Portlands coach will be with
you at 3 or half an hour after
which you Please -- but the Earlier
the Better -- if this is not Convenient
it shall be with you a little before
6 o Clock in the Evening
                             yours MD

      St James Place Friday Mor
      1[1th] Febry 1785


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Miʃs Hamelton[3]



Mrs. Delany
11 Febry 85[4]

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Notes


 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 3. The address line is written vertically in the middle of the page.
 4. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the page.

Normalised Text


                                                        

      can you dine with me to day
My Dear Miss Hamelton it would
be very Comfortable and the Duchess
Dowager of Portlands coach will be with
you at 3 or half an hour after
which you Please -- but the Earlier
the Better -- if this is not Convenient
it shall be with you a little before
6 o'Clock in the Evening
                             yours Mary Delany

      St James Place Friday morning
     


                                                        

Miss Hamelton



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 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 3. The address line is written vertically in the middle of the page.
 4. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the page.

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(67)

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 11 February 1785

Letter Description

Summary: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, in which she asks her if she can dine with her today.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 70 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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