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HAM/1/4/2/4

Letter from Frederick Hamilton to John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


Feb /87

      Dear Sir,

      I was very happy in receiving on Monday last
your confirmation of the agreeable news I had
heard on Saturday of Mrs. Dickenson's having presen=
ted you with a Daughter, & that she & the Child are
in so good a way. I beg you will accept of the con=
gratulations of all my Family upon the occasion
& that you will remember me very particularly
to Mrs. Dickenson I remain
                             Dear Sir,
                             Your faithful Humble Servant
                                                         Frederick Hamilton
Oxford Street no. 248
Feby. 1st. 1787[1]


Honble. Revd Mr. Hamilton
1st. Febry 1787

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Notes


 1. The dateline appears to the left of the closing salutation.

Normalised Text



      Dear Sir,

      I was very happy in receiving on Monday last
your confirmation of the agreeable news I had
heard on Saturday of Mrs. Dickenson's having presented
 you with a Daughter, & that she & the Child are
in so good a way. I beg you will accept of the congratulations
 of all my Family upon the occasion
& that you will remember me very particularly
to Mrs. Dickenson I remain
                             Dear Sir,
                             Your faithful Humble Servant
                                                         Frederick Hamilton
Oxford Street number 248
February 1st. 1787


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 1. The dateline appears to the left of the closing salutation.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Frederick Hamilton to John Dickenson

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/2/4

Correspondence Details

Sender: Frederick Hamilton

Place sent: London

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 1 February 1787

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Rev. Frederick Hamilton to John Dickenson. The letter congratulates Mr and Mrs Dickenson on the birth of their daughter Louisa.
    Dated Oxford Street [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 86 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 2017/18 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

Research assistant: Georgia Tutt, MA student, University of Manchester

Transliterator: Carmen Salas, undergraduate student, University of Seville (submitted November 2017)

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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