Diplomatic Text
1784 Sep' 4'/84
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Sat Night 4th AugustSeptr. 1784
My D. Miʃs H[1]
Busineʃs has so increased upon me
I have not had a moment to call upon you
it is impoʃsible to do more than one
thing well at a time I shall therefore
content myself tomorrow with calling
upon you about One o'clock to go to
Mrs. Garricks if Mr. Walpoles was in the
way I shoud not dislike calling upon him
but I do not think of Wandsworth Hill
yrs ever. W.H. --
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Septr. 84[3]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The salutation appears to the left of the dateline, as if the salutation was added later.
2. Seal in red wax.
3. This annotation by Mary Hamilton was written at the top of what once was the back of the letter after receiving it, when it was still folded down the middle. It now appears vertically.
4. This address was written on what once was the back of the letter, when it was still folded down the middle. It now appears vertically.
Normalised Text
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Saturday Night 4th September 1784
My Dear Miss Hamilton
Business has so increased upon me
I have not had a moment to call upon you
it is impossible to do more than one
thing well at a time I shall therefore
content myself tomorrow with calling
upon you about One o'clock to go to
Mrs. Garricks if Mr. Walpoles was in the
way I should not dislike calling upon him
but I do not think of Wandsworth Hill
yours ever. William Hamilton --
Clarges Street
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
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/1/4/4/20
Correspondence Details
Sender: Sir William Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 4 September 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He will call upon his niece tomorrow on his way to Mrs Garrick's. He notes that if Mr Walpole ‘is in the way I should not dislike calling upon him but I do not think of Wadsworth Hill’.
Length: 1 sheet, 86 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 27 July 2020)
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