Diplomatic Text
Dear Miʃs Hamilton
I did myself the pleasure of writing to you some time ago
in relation to a very obliging letter I receiv'd from you; and I have
now the satisfaction of acquainting you that Mr. John Stratford
second Son of the Earl of Aldborough has made proposals for
my Daughter which have been accepted & that the marriage
will take place in a few days. Mr. Stratford is a young man
of a most amiable character & disposition, he is at present
in poʃseʃsion of a good estate & has great expectations from his
Father who is one of the richest men in Ireland & in his
86th. year, so that it is on all hands thought a most ad=
vantageous match for my Daughter, who with Mrs. H. and
myself desire to be affectionately remember'd to you &
Mr. Hamilton I am
Dear Miʃs Hamilton,
Your faithful Humble Servt.
Frederick Hamilton
Gardiner's Row
March 1st. 1777[1]
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Normalised Text
Dear Miss Hamilton
I did myself the pleasure of writing to you some time ago
in relation to a very obliging letter I received from you; and I have
now the satisfaction of acquainting you that Mr. John Stratford
second Son of the Earl of Aldborough has made proposals for
my Daughter which have been accepted & that the marriage
will take place in a few days. Mr. Stratford is a young man
of a most amiable character & disposition, he is at present
in possession of a good estate & has great expectations from his
Father who is one of the richest men in Ireland & in his
86th. year, so that it is on all hands thought a most advantageous
match for my Daughter, who with Mrs. Hamilton and
myself desire to be affectionately remembered to you &
Mr. Hamilton I am
Dear Miss Hamilton,
Your faithful Humble Servant
Frederick Hamilton
Gardiner's Row
March 1st. 1777
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/1/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: Frederick Hamilton
Place sent: Dublin (certainty: medium)
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 1 March 1777
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Rev. Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. The letter informs Mary Hamilton of the engagement of his daughter, Elizabeth [to John Stratford, 3rd Earl of Aldborough (c.1742-1823), second son of John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough, MP for Baltinglass and for Wicklow County in the Irish House of Commons], and that the marriage will take place in a few days. John Stratford is described as having a 'most amiable character & disposition'. He reports that he has a good estate and will inherit well from his father, who is 'one of the richest men in Ireland & in his 86th year'. He describes the match as a very advantageous one for his daughter. [The couple married the following month.]
Length: 1 sheet, 158 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: Research Assistant funding in 2013/14 provided by G.L. Brook bequest, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: George Bailey, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Momina Mohammed, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted December 2013)
Transliterator: James Kidd, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted December 2013)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021