Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/5/1/2

Letter from Reverend Archibald Hamilton Cathcart to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


letter
of a 1st. cousin
Rev AH Cathcart

                                                         Wolverton Thursday 1st
                                                         Sepbr 1808

My Dear Cousin
      I was sorry I had not an
opportunity of thanking you for your
kind letter by the Post of yesterday. I had
it in full contemplation to make you a
visit about this time & shall be most happy
to pay my respects to you & Mr Dickenson
on Tuesday next & to stay with you for that
night but I must return next day as I have
some things going on at home that require
my presence. I am very sorry to speak in
the first person singular, but Mrs
Cathcart in addition to the situation of
Encrease has a complaint in her head
& altogether is not in visiting order


& with much regret must decline accepting
your kind Invitation this time. We
are much obliged to you for your kind
recollection of our Children Arch is
at school & Fanny going on in her
usual joy of leʃsons &c. The others
are all well. I had heard of Mr
Dickensons migration but not of his
return. Pray remember us most kindly
to him & Ms Dickenson & Believe me
                             Ever my Dear Cousin
                                       most Faithfully Yrs
                                                         AH Cathcart



Mrs Dickenson[1] [2]
Leighton House
           Leighton
      Bedford shire

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 1. Postmark ‘STONEY STRATFORD 52’ above address panel.
 2. Large number 5 written partly over address, denoting postage due.

Normalised Text




                                                         Wolverton Thursday 1st
                                                         September 1808

My Dear Cousin
      I was sorry I had not an
opportunity of thanking you for your
kind letter by the Post of yesterday. I had
it in full contemplation to make you a
visit about this time & shall be most happy
to pay my respects to you & Mr Dickenson
on Tuesday next & to stay with you for that
night but I must return next day as I have
some things going on at home that require
my presence. I am very sorry to speak in
the first person singular, but Mrs
Cathcart in addition to the situation of
Increase has a complaint in her head
& altogether is not in visiting order


& with much regret must decline accepting
your kind Invitation this time. We
are much obliged to you for your kind
recollection of our Children Arch is
at school & Fanny going on in her
usual joy of lessons &c. The others
are all well. I had heard of Mr
Dickensons migration but not of his
return. Pray remember us most kindly
to him & Ms Dickenson & Believe me
                             Ever my Dear Cousin
                                       most Faithfully Yours
                                                         Archibald Hamilton Cathcart



Mrs Dickenson
Leighton House
           Leighton
      Bedford shire

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 1. Postmark ‘STONEY STRATFORD 52’ above address panel.
 2. Large number 5 written partly over address, denoting postage due.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Reverend Archibald Hamilton Cathcart to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/1/2

Correspondence Details

Sender: Archibald Hamilton Cathcart

Place sent: Wolverton, Buckinghamshire

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard

Date sent: 1 September 1808

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Rev. Hon. Archibald Hamilton Cathcart to Mary Hamilton. The letter relates to general family news on the health of Frances Cathcart and on Cathcart's acceptance of an invitation to visit Hamilton and her family.
   

Length: 3 sheets, 207 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 2016/17 provided by The John Rylands Research Institute.

Research assistant: Sarah Connor, undergraduate student, University of Manchester

Research assistant: Carla Seabra-Dacosta, MA student, University of Vigo

Transliterator: Amanda Widmalm, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted May 2017)

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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