Diplomatic Text
Dear Miʃs Hamilton,
We shall be rejoiced to have the pleasure of
your company tomorrow to dinner; and shou'd
have been happy to have had it in our power to
have sent our carriage for you, but we are as
yet unprovided with one, which will not be
the case many days longer. Her Majesty is upon
all occasions very gracious, but at the same [time]
as her attentions are never without a meaning
it must surely be very flattering to you to be
so often the object of them I am
Dear Miʃs Hamilton
Your faithful & Affecte. Uncle
Frederick Hamilton
Tuesday October 1st. 1782
No. 3. St. James's Street.[1]
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Normalised Text
Dear Miss Hamilton,
We shall be rejoiced to have the pleasure of
your company tomorrow to dinner; and should
have been happy to have had it in our power to
have sent our carriage for you, but we are as
yet unprovided with one, which will not be
the case many days longer. Her Majesty is upon
all occasions very gracious, but at the same time
as her attentions are never without a meaning
it must surely be very flattering to you to be
so often the object of them I am
Dear Miss Hamilton
Your faithful & Affectionate Uncle
Frederick Hamilton
Tuesday October 1st. 1782
No. 3. St. James's Street.
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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/1/4/1/24
Correspondence Details
Sender: Frederick Hamilton
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 1 October 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Rev. Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton, inviting her to dinner the following day. Frederick Hamilton writes that he has not yet a carriage to send for her but should be in possession of one in a few days.
Dated at No. 3 St James's Street [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 111 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: Kim Kahan, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted December 2013)
Transliterator: Oliver Nesbitt, 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