HAM/1/5/2/2
Letter from Elizabeth Murray (later Finch-Hatton) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
A thousand thanks my
dear Miʃs Hamilton for your kind Letter
I have the pleasure to tell you that our
dear Lady Stormont goes on vastly well
she has been up for a little while these two
last days & continues nursing her Boy who
is in perfect health -- she begs the favor
of you to present her duty to the Queen
with many thanks to her Majesty for so
graciously enquiring after her -- I aʃsure
you she is very prudent & takes great
care of herself -- I don't think if she was
otherwise that I could be any check upon
her for I dont believe she has so great an
opinion of my matronly care as my good
friends at Windsor -- I am highly flattered
by all the civil things contained in your Letter
and Postcript concerning me, & only wish
I deserved them -- I aʃsure you, you may
be quite easy about Lady Stormont for she
is amazingly well & so tractable that she
readily submits to every thing Nurse Hill
orders -- Adieu my dear Miʃs Hamilton
accept the sincere good wishes of all your
friends at Wandsworth -- & believe me
yr. very affecte.
Elizath. M. Murray
Be so good to present my Compts. to Coll. Greville
and tell him I had a letter yesterday from Ly.
Frances Harpur who says she intends coming
to Town in about a fortnight in her way to
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Normalised Text
A thousand thanks my
dear Miss Hamilton for your kind Letter
I have the pleasure to tell you that our
dear Lady Stormont goes on vastly well
she has been up for a little while these two
last days & continues nursing her Boy who
is in perfect health -- she begs the favour
of you to present her duty to the Queen
with many thanks to her Majesty for so
graciously enquiring after her -- I assure
you she is very prudent & takes great
care of herself -- I don't think if she was
otherwise that I could be any check upon
her for I don't believe she has so great an
opinion of my matronly care as my good
friends at Windsor -- I am highly flattered
by all the civil things contained in your Letter
and Postscript concerning me, & only wish
I deserved them -- I assure you, you may
be quite easy about Lady Stormont for she
is amazingly well & so tractable that she
readily submits to every thing Nurse Hill
orders -- Adieu my dear Miss Hamilton
accept the sincere good wishes of all your
friends at Wandsworth -- & believe me
your very affectionate
Elizabeth Mary Murray
Be so good to present my Compliments to Colonel Greville
and tell him I had a letter yesterday from Lady
Frances Harpur who says she intends coming
to Town in about a fortnight in her way to
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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 Elizabeth Murray (later Finch-Hatton) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/2/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Elizabeth Mary Finch-Hatton (née Murray)
Place sent: Wandsworth
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Windsor (certainty: low)
Date sent: 27 August 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Elizabeth Murray to Mary Hamilton. The letter updates Hamilton on the health of Lady Stormont and her newly-born son, and asks that Hamilton present her thanks to the Queen for enquiring after her. Lady Stormont is very well and is 'so tractable that she readily submits to every thing Nurse Hill orders'.
Length: 1 sheet, 241 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 2014/15 and 2015/16 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Donald Alasdair Morrison, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Nerea Rodríguez-Estévez, dissertation student, University of Vigo (submitted March 2015)
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