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HAM/1/5/3/8

Letter from Robert Fulke Greville to John Dickenson

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Gt Cumberland St..
Oxford Street June 11th. 1810


Dear Sir

      Nothing could exceed Lady Mansfields
& my surprize, at receiving your intimation,
by Your Note of this Morning, of Mrs. Holman's
death, & accompanied by details which are
truely distreʃsing to latter Existance --
We had not heard the slighest account of
Mrs. Holman's late illneʃs, until I received
Your Note this Morning, & that intimationcommunication
has reached us, with the intimation of
Her death --
      I conclude this illneʃs has been sudden,
as when I had the pleasure of seeing You
on Friday, You made no mention of it.
                             I remain
                             Dear Sir
                             Yours Very Sincerely
                                                         Robt: F: Greville
John Dickenson Esqr



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John Dickenson Esqr.

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 1. Seal, in black wax.

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Great Cumberland St..
Oxford Street June 11th. 1810


Dear Sir

      Nothing could exceed Lady Mansfields
& my surprise, at receiving your intimation,
by Your Note of this Morning, of Mrs. Holman's
death, & accompanied by details which are
truly distressing to latter Existence --
We had not heard the slightest account of
Mrs. Holman's late illness, until I received
Your Note this Morning, & that communication
has reached us, with the intimation of
Her death --
      I conclude this illness has been sudden,
as when I had the pleasure of seeing You
on Friday, You made no mention of it.
                             I remain
                             Dear Sir
                             Yours Very Sincerely
                                                         Robert Fulke Greville
John Dickenson Esqr




John Dickenson Esqr.

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 1. Seal, in black wax.

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 John Dickenson

Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/3/8

Correspondence Details

Sender: Robert Fulke Greville

Place sent: London

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 11 June 1810

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Robert Fulke Greville to John Dickenson, relating to the death of Mrs Holman (see HAM/1/4/3). Greville had heard nothing of Holman's illness prior to this note and presumes that the illness had come on suddenly.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 114 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 3 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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