Single Letter

HAM/1/4/4/12

Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text



I forgot yesterday that I am obliged
to attend a Committee of the British
Museum to day at 12 I have sent
my excuse to Ly Stormont excuse
my Dr. Miʃs H. your
very heedleʃs but affecte Uncle
                                                         WH
Friday Morn 13th Febry
                             1784[1]

[2]
Miʃs Hamilton
Clarges Street[3]

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Notes


 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature
 2.
 3. The address is written vertically on the top half of the sheet.

Normalised Text



I forgot yesterday that I am obliged
to attend a Committee of the British
Museum to day at 12 I have sent
my excuse to Lady Stormont excuse
my Dear Miss Hamilton your
very heedless but affectionate Uncle
                                                         William Hamilton
Friday Morning 13th February
                             1784


Miss Hamilton
Clarges Street

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 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature
 2.
 3. The address is written vertically on the top half of the sheet.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/4/12

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sir William Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 13 February 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He is to attend the Comittee of the British Museum today and has sent his excuses to Lady Stormont and sends them to his niece.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 49 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 29 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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