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HAM/1/4/4/17

Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                             Tuesday 4th. May
                                                         1784

My Dearest Miʃs H
      I must beg of you to
make my excuse to Night
to Mrs. Walsingham for to tell
you the truth I have a party
of musick with Giardini at
Mrs. Causeways that I coud
not resist. Tomorrow I will
call upon you to Carry you to Ly
Stormont
s I will not pretend
to make any excuse for
my inexcusable neglect of
you but I will aʃsure you



that my affection for you
is invariable & that no
one is more sensible of your
real merit than I am
                                                         Ever yours My Dr Niece
                                                         WH
[1]
Miʃs Hamilton
Clarges Street[2]

                                                         [3]

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Notes


 1. The address appears on side 4 of a folded bifolium. The top of side 4 has been torn away, and the current image shows the end of the letter text on side 2 at the top, and the address from side 4 below.
 2. This address is written vertically.
 3. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text


                            
My Dearest Miss Hamilton
      I must beg of you to
make my excuse to Night
to Mrs. Walsingham for to tell
you the truth I have a party
of music with Giardini at
Mrs. Causeways that I could
not resist. Tomorrow I will
call upon you to Carry you to Lady
Stormonts I will not pretend
to make any excuse for
my inexcusable neglect of
you but I will assure you



that my affection for you
is invariable & that no
one is more sensible of your
real merit than I am
                                                         Ever yours My Dear Niece
                                                         William Hamilton

Miss Hamilton
Clarges Street

                                                        

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 1. The address appears on side 4 of a folded bifolium. The top of side 4 has been torn away, and the current image shows the end of the letter text on side 2 at the top, and the address from side 4 below.
 2. This address is written vertically.
 3. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

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/1/4/4/17

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sir William Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 4 May 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He asks his niece to make his excuses to Mrs [Charlotte] Walsingham as he has a prior engagement, a party of music with 'which he could not resist'. Sir William will call on his niece the following day and writes of his affection for her.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 103 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 28 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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