Diplomatic Text
[1]
Mrs. Boscawen is much flatter'd by Mrs Dickensons obliging
Summons, & tho She is not alerte enough to wait on Her at Breakfast
will be much inclin'd to avail herself of the Certainty of finding Her at
Home on Tuesday Morning to take that Opportunity to wait on Her.
5 May 1799
[2]
[3]
To
Mrs. Dickenson
Dover Street
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The image has been modified in order to separate HAM/1/6/1/12 (2pp) and HAM/1/6/1/13 (2pp). The image therefore differs from that in the University of Manchester LUNA catalogue.
2. Black sealing wax, used to close the note, remains in the bottom-right corner.
3. The note has been folded in half centrally and sealed with wax in the corner, hence this image's size in relation to p.1.
Normalised Text
Mrs. Boscawen is much flattered by Mrs Dickensons obliging
Summons, & though She is not alert enough to wait on Her at Breakfast
will be much inclined to avail herself of the Certainty of finding Her at
Home on Tuesday Morning to take that Opportunity to wait on Her.
5 May 1799
To
Mrs. Dickenson
Dover Street
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/1/12
Correspondence Details
Sender: Frances Evelyn Boscawen (née Glanville)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 5 May 1799
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton. She is flattered by
Hamilton's invitation to breakfast but notes that she is not 'alerte
[sic] enough' at this time and asks
instead to wait on her on Tuesday morning.
Length: 1 sheet, 57 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 17 August 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 10 November 2023