Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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MSS1 b.12 f.48

Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

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Dear Madam
      will you & Mr Dickenson do me the favour of dining at
Strawberry hill on Tuesday next the 13th. Mrs Carter, Mrs Garrick
& Miʃs More will meet you, & I hope Miʃs Clarke. I hope too to see
you before one, & I flatter myself the Sun will be there just then.
                                                         Yrs most devoutly
                                                         HWalpole
7th. May 1788
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No 7

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Notes


 1. The first image is of an archival note with basic metadata, the location in the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, and the provenance of the document.
 2. This note appears in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 262).
 3. Remains of a seal, in black wax.

Normalised Text




Dear Madam
      will you & Mr Dickenson do me the favour of dining at
Strawberry hill on Tuesday next the 13th. Mrs Carter, Mrs Garrick
& Miss More will meet you, & I hope Miss Clarke. I hope too to see
you before one, & I flatter myself the Sun will be there just then.
                                                         Yours most devoutly
                                                         Horace Walpole




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 1. The first image is of an archival note with basic metadata, the location in the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, and the provenance of the document.
 2. This note appears in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 262).
 3. Remains of a seal, in black wax.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Horace Walpole's Correspondence

Item title: Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: MSS1 b.12 f.48

Correspondence Details

Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 7 May 1788

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton, May 1788.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 60 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 26 February 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 December 2021

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