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HAM/1/5/3/1

Envelope franked by Charles Francis Greville to John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


[1]
London Feby first 1787[2]
      John Dickenʃon Er
                             No. 2 Abbey Street
                                                         Bath
Greville[3]
[4]
[5]

with Mr Grevilles Congratulations
on the Happy Event --


Honble. Chs: Greville
Feby. 21st. 1787 -- [6]

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Notes


 1. This envelope has been separated from its contents. Charles Greville is the author of the extant text, but not necessarily of the main letter, for whom he may simply have written the frank (and accompanying note).
 2. The address is written vertically in the centre of the page.
 3. The envelope has been signed to authorise the free frank.
 4. A stamp reading 'Free' across the address.
 5. A red wax seal remains intact to the right of the address (below if the address is viewed horizontally).
 6. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the page.

Normalised Text



London February first 1787
      John Dickenson Er
                             No. 2 Abbey Street
                                                         Bath
Greville



with Mr Grevilles Congratulations
on the Happy Event --


(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. This envelope has been separated from its contents. Charles Greville is the author of the extant text, but not necessarily of the main letter, for whom he may simply have written the frank (and accompanying note).
 2. The address is written vertically in the centre of the page.
 3. The envelope has been signed to authorise the free frank.
 4. A stamp reading 'Free' across the address.
 5. A red wax seal remains intact to the right of the address (below if the address is viewed horizontally).
 6. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the page.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Envelope franked by Charles Francis Greville to John Dickenson

Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/3/1

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charles Francis Greville

Place sent: London

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: Bath

Date sent: 1 February 1787

Letter Description

Summary: Envelope franked by Charles Greville to John Dickenson, with a note of congratulations on the birth of Louisa Dickenson.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 21 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 5 August 2020)

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: 31 August 2023

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