Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/4/7/6

Letter from M. Hamilton (unidentified) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Mrs Dickenson
32 Devonshire Place



Janry. 1815

My dear Mrs Dickenson
      We are just returned home
& received your kind note. I
shall have the greatest pleasure
in attending Miʃs Dickenson
on so happy an occasion. Pray
make my best love to her, &
tell her how much I am
flattered by her choice. Mama
will have Great Pleasure in
waiting upon you in the morning
& would be glad to know at what
hour. Believe me Dear Madam
      Very Sincerely Yours
                             M. Hamilton
Tuesday
      Somerset Street

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Normalised Text


Mrs Dickenson
32 Devonshire Place





My dear Mrs Dickenson
      We are just returned home
& received your kind note. I
shall have the greatest pleasure
in attending Miss Dickenson
on so happy an occasion. Pray
make my best love to her, &
tell her how much I am
flattered by her choice. Mama
will have Great Pleasure in
waiting upon you in the morning
& would be glad to know at what
hour. Believe me Dear Madam
      Very Sincerely Yours
                             M. Hamilton
Tuesday
      Somerset 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 M. Hamilton (unidentified) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/7/6

Correspondence Details

Sender: M[...] Hamilton

Place sent: London (certainty: low)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: between 3 and 24 January 1815
notBefore 3 January 1815 (precision: high)
notAfter 24 January 1815 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from 'M. Hamilton' (unidentified) to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she has 'the greatest pleasure in attending Miss [Louisa] Dickenson on so happy an occasion' [her wedding]. Dated at Somerset Street.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 85 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: Madeleine Back, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted December 2013)

Transliterator: Abigail Mylchreest, 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

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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