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June 15th- 1810
Dear Sir
I am obliged to you for the intimation
convey'd by your note of yesterday, announcing
the arrangements respecting Mrs. Holman's funeral,
in consequence of Mr Hamilton's directions to
Mrs. Mann, & the desire of its being private, has
prevented my offering my Carriage to attend,
which I should have be glad to have done --
It certainly has not been my Wish, to
mark in you, that want of attention, which you hint
at in your Note, but certainly We We were not
a little surprized, at the sudden intimation
of Mrs. Holman's death, without having heard
the least Account of Her previous illneʃs,
from any quarter, & which illneʃs, I was afterwards sorry
to hear, had continued painfully, above Thirty
days -- It has been a great satisfaction to
us, as it will be to all the Family, that Every
Medical Aʃsistance which could flatter hopes
had been called in on this occasion, & tho' the
Case has unhappily been too baffling for their
skill, We should, had We known of it, have
indulged in those recollections, which in their
direction, might have shewn, that We could
not have been wanting to Ourselves, nor
to Mr. Hamilton, at this period of extreme
distreʃs --
I remain
Dear Sir
Your Faithful Humble Servant
Robt: F: Greville.
John Dickenson Esqr
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June 15th- 1810
Dear Sir
I am obliged to you for the intimation
conveyed by your note of yesterday, announcing
the arrangements respecting Mrs. Holman's funeral,
in consequence of Mr Hamilton's directions to
Mrs. Mann, & the desire of its being private, has
prevented my offering my Carriage to attend,
which I should have be glad to have done --
It certainly has not been my Wish, to
mark in you, that want of attention, which you hint
at in your Note, but We were not
a little surprised, at the sudden intimation
of Mrs. Holman's death, without having heard
the least Account of Her previous illness,
from any quarter, & which illness, I was afterwards sorry
to hear, had continued painfully, above Thirty
days -- It has been a great satisfaction to
us, as it will be to all the Family, that Every
Medical Assistance which could flatter hopes
had been called in on this occasion, & though the
Case has unhappily been too baffling for their
skill, We should, had We known of it, have
indulged in those recollections, which in their
direction, might have shown, that We could
not have been wanting to Ourselves, nor
to Mr. Hamilton, at this period of extreme
distress --
I remain
Dear Sir
Your Faithful Humble Servant
Robert Fulke Greville.
John Dickenson Esqr
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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 Robert Fulke Greville to John Dickenson
Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/3/9
Correspondence Details
Sender: Robert Fulke Greville
Place sent: London
Addressee: John Dickenson
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 15 June 1810
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Robert Fulke Greville to John Dickenson, relating to the funeral of Mrs Holman. He notes that Mr Hamilton's [Frederick Hamilton (HAM/1/4/1), Mrs Holman's father] 'desire of its being private, has prevented my offering my Carriage to attend, which I should have be[en] glad to have done'.
Greville again mentions that he and his wife had not been aware of Holman's illness and were surprised that no-one had informed them that she had been ill for over thirty days. If they had been aware, they might then have been able to recollect that they ‘could not have been wanting to Ourselves, nor to Mr. Hamilton, at this period of extreme distress’.
Length: 1 sheet, 222 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).
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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)
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Revision date: 2 November 2021