Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/2/55

Note from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         29th Sep 1813[1]      13
                             ¼ to 5

I sit down for one moment to say I have seen
the Dockyard -- & Mount Edcumbe[2] & in ten
minutes bmust be at the Commiʃsioner's to
dinner -- he recd. me wth great Civility -- & so
did Ld. Mt. Edgcumbe I have not sat
down before since ½ past 10 --
      No letter from you today Encore
                             Adieu
                             JD


[3]
                             Single
To
      Mrs. Dickenson[4]
32      Devonshire Place
                             London[5] [6]

J. Dickensons letters from Oakford
to his wife[7]

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red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)


Notes


 1. Very faint, perhaps partly erased.
 2. Mount Edgcumbe House outside Plymouth was the seat of the second earl of Mount Edgcumbe.
 3. Remains of a stamp dated 1813, in red ink.
 4. The address is overwritten with a '11', indicating postage due.
 5. Remains of a date stamp from Plymouth, dated 29 September 1813, with mileage mark (220 miles) in red ink.
 6. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 7. This annotation is written vertically on the right-hand side of the page.

Normalised Text


                                                              
                             ¼ to 5

I sit down for one moment to say I have seen
the Dockyard -- & Mount Edcumbe & in ten
minutes must be at the Commissioner's to
dinner -- he received me with great Civility -- & so
did Lord Mount Edgcumbe I have not sat
down before since ½ past 10 --
      No letter from you today Encore
                             Adieu
                             John Dickenson



                             Single
To
      Mrs. Dickenson
32      Devonshire Place
                             London

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 1. Very faint, perhaps partly erased.
 2. Mount Edgcumbe House outside Plymouth was the seat of the second earl of Mount Edgcumbe.
 3. Remains of a stamp dated 1813, in red ink.
 4. The address is overwritten with a '11', indicating postage due.
 5. Remains of a date stamp from Plymouth, dated 29 September 1813, with mileage mark (220 miles) in red ink.
 6. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 7. This annotation is written vertically on the right-hand side of the page.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/2/55

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Dickenson

Place sent: Plymouth

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 29 September 1813

Letter Description

Summary: John Dickenson writes a quick note to his wife Mary née Hamilton, presumably from Plymouth.
    Original reference No. 13.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 69 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 16 July 2020)

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: 2 November 2021

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