Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/5/3/6

Note from Robert Fulke Greville to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text



Dear Madam
      I am happy to announce to you the
glad tidings of Lady Mansfield having been this
morning safely brought to bed of a fine & stout
Boy, who with its dear mother, I am happy to
add, are at present as well as We could
wish. --
I beg my best respects to Mr. Dickenson & am
                             Dear Madam
                             Your very faithful &
                             Obedient Humble Servant
                                                         Robt. F: Greville
Monday Decr. 1st:
      1800[1]


London December One 1800
                             Mrs: Dickenson
      Leighton Buzzard
                             Bedfordshire
free
RFGreville[2]

[3]
[4]

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Notes


 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature.
 2. The cover has been signed to authorise the free frank.
 3. Postmarked in red ink '1 December 1800' 'Free'.
 4. A seal in red wax remains intact at the bottom of the page.

Normalised Text



Dear Madam
      I am happy to announce to you the
glad tidings of Lady Mansfield having been this
morning safely brought to bed of a fine & stout
Boy, who with its dear mother, I am happy to
add, are at present as well as We could
wish. --
I beg my best respects to Mr. Dickenson & am
                             Dear Madam
                             Your very faithful &
                             Obedient Humble Servant
                                                         Robert Fulke Greville
Monday December 1st:
     


London December One 1800
                             Mrs: Dickenson
      Leighton Buzzard
                             Bedfordshire
free
Robert Fulke Greville


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 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature.
 2. The cover has been signed to authorise the free frank.
 3. Postmarked in red ink '1 December 1800' 'Free'.
 4. A seal in red wax remains intact 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: Note from Robert Fulke Greville to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/3/6

Correspondence Details

Sender: Robert Fulke Greville

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard

Date sent: 1 December 1800

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Robert Fulke Greville to Mary Hamilton, informing her of the birth of his son.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 86 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: 2 November 2021

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