HAM/1/4/7/13
Letter from Lady Catherine Hamilton (née Barlow) to Charles Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
Dear Sir
Mr. Hamilton did not give
me your note till your Servant was gone
or I should have sent my thanks in
writing for your obliging present, which
however I am quite ashamed to rob
you of -- ------ Your Servant did not staying long
enough ------ prevented our sending by
him some Pickled Salmon which we
have just receiv'd from the Country
we desire yours & Mrs H's acceptance of
some of it & hope it will prove good
I beg My Love to her & am
Yr Most Affectionate Sister
& Obliged C. Hamilton
▼
from 1800 to 1809[1]
to my Dearest Papa &
Mama
Preserv'd out of ye
general wreck
made unfortunately
for their Poor Daughter
To
The Honble
Charles Hamilton
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The dates are unexplained, and it is unclear who wrote this annotation – more likely a descendant than Mary Hamilton herself.
Normalised Text
Dear Sir
Mr. Hamilton did not give
me your note till your Servant was gone
or I should have sent my thanks in
writing for your obliging present, which
however I am quite ashamed to rob
you of -- Your Servant not staying
prevented our sending by
him some Pickled Salmon which we
have just received from the Country
we desire yours & Mrs Hamilton's acceptance of
some of it & hope it will prove good
I beg My Love to her & am
Your Most Affectionate Sister
& Obliged Catherine Hamilton
▼
To
The Honourable
Charles Hamilton
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 Lady Catherine Hamilton (née Barlow) to Charles Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/7/13
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Catherine Hamilton (née Barlow)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Charles Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: between January 1758 and September 1771
notBefore January 1758 (precision: high)
notAfter September 1771 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Lady Catherine Hamilton to the Hon. Charles Hamilton relating to a present from him and sending him in return some 'pickled Salmon' that she has just received from the country and which she would have sent back with Charles Hamilton's servant if he had stayed longer.
On the back of the sheet Mary Hamilton has written 'Some few Letters to my Dearest Papa & Mama Preserved out of [th]e general wreck made unfortunately for their Poor Daughter'.
Original reference No. 1.
Length: 1 sheet, 96 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: Christopher Carr, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted December 2013)
Transliterator: Rita Vivas-Garcia, 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