Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/5/3/4

Letter from Robert Fulke Greville to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Robert Greville
Who married his first
cousin Lady Mansfield
earlier Viscountess
Stormont[1]

Dear Madam
      I am happy to announce to You that
this Morning Lady Mansfield Was safely deliverd
of a Daughter, & that both are as well as can
be; I beg my best respects to Mr: Dickenson
& am Dear madam in great haste for
this Post           Your very Obedient & Faithful Servant
                                                         Robt: F: Greville


Gt Cumberland St.
      Wednesday Janry: 8th 1800[2]

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Notes


 1. Annotation written diagonally at top left of page.
 2. These two lines appear to the left of the signature.

Normalised Text




Dear Madam
      I am happy to announce to You that
this Morning Lady Mansfield Was safely delivered
of a Daughter, & that both are as well as can
be; I beg my best respects to Mr: Dickenson
& am Dear madam in great haste for
this Post           Your very Obedient & Faithful Servant
                                                         Robert Fulke Greville


Great Cumberland Street
      Wednesday January 8th 1800

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 1. Annotation written diagonally at top left of page.
 2. These two lines appear to the left of the signature.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Robert Fulke Greville to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/3/4

Correspondence Details

Sender: Robert Fulke Greville

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 8 January 1800

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Robert Fulke Greville to Mary Hamilton, informing her that Lady Mansfield [Louisa Greville, née Cathcart, 2nd Countess of Mansfield (1758-1843), wife and cousin of Robert Fulke Greville and cousin of Mary Hamilton] gave birth to a daughter this morning, and that both are well.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 63 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 2017/18 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

Research assistant: Georgia Tutt, MA student, University of Manchester

Transliterator: Jane Scanlon, former MA student, University of Manchester (submitted March 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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