Diplomatic Text
[2]
My veriest dear Madam
I shall like Saturday just as well as Wednesday. It is true I was disengaged
for the last but to you, but I have had a posthumous Engagement since I saw
you. Ly Frances Douglas sent to me for Wednesday; I pleaded my doubtfull promise
for wednesday or saturday, but said if it proved the latter, I woud come to her.
However, I will certainly call on you on my Way to Ham,[3] & hope to find the
outside of Mr Dickenson's head as sound as the Inside -- whether his heart is
as whole, Miʃs Clarke best knows. I am the whole Trio's
most devoted
HW.
July 21st 1788
Honble. Horace
Walpole July
1788[4]
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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, 275).
3. Lady Frances Douglas had a house in Petersham, Ham.
4. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin.
Normalised Text
My veriest dear Madam
I shall like Saturday just as well as Wednesday. It is true I was disengaged
for the last but to you, but I have had a posthumous Engagement since I saw
you. Lady Frances Douglas sent to me for Wednesday; I pleaded my doubtful promise
for wednesday or saturday, but said if it proved the latter, I would come to her.
However, I will certainly call on you on my Way to Ham, & hope to find the
outside of Mr Dickenson's head as sound as the Inside -- whether his heart is
as whole, Miss Clarke best knows. I am the whole Trio's
most devoted
Horace Walpole.
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Notes
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.51
Correspondence Details
Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 21 July 1788
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton, July 1788.
Length: 1 sheet, 111 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).
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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 2 March 2021)
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