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HAM/1/1/1/6

Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         11
      With more pleasure than an aching
Head will allow me to tell you, I will wait on
you to Morrow my dear Miʃs Hamilton to
Breakfast. Yours affectionately
                                                         ECarter
Thursd[ay].


[1]
Mrs. Carter
April 1779

                                                 To
                                                         Miʃs Hamilton[2]

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Notes


 1. The image of p.2 is rotated 90° relative to that of p.1.
 2. In this orientation of the image, the direction is written vertically.

Normalised Text


                                                        
      With more pleasure than an aching
Head will allow me to tell you, I will wait on
you to Morrow my dear Miss Hamilton to
Breakfast. Yours affectionately
                                                         Elizabeth Carter
Thursday.





                                            To
                                                         Miss Hamilton

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quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. The image of p.2 is rotated 90° relative to that of p.1.
 2. In this orientation of the image, the direction is written vertically.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/1/1/6

Correspondence Details

Sender: Elizabeth Carter

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: April 1779

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter [poet, author, translator and member of the Bluestocking circle (1717-1806)] to Mary Hamilton, stating that she will wait on her the next day at breakfast.
    Original reference No. 11.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 34 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: XML version first created without transcription as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1. Transcription added after the funded period under the supervision of David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.

Transliterator: Pete Morris, Artificial Intelligence and Ideas Adoption (AIIA), The University of Manchester Library (Plain text transliteration submitted 13 January 2026)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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

Revision date: 7 April 2026

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