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HAM/1/6/2/7(1)

Note from Horace Walpole to Elizabeth Vesey

Diplomatic Text


                                                         Novbr. 14th. 1783
                                                         7.
      Mr Walpole will certainly wait on Mrs Vesey to morrow,
but with all his regard for her, hopes She will not interpret
it as a Visit solely for her Sake.

To
Mrs Vesey.
[1]
[2]

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Notes


 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. The remaining lines and direction to Hamilton, in Vesey's hand, are transcribed as HAM/1/6/2/7(2).

Normalised Text


                                                        
                                                        
      Mr Walpole will certainly wait on Mrs Vesey to morrow,
but with all his regard for her, hopes She will not interpret
it as a Visit solely for her Sake.

To
Mrs Vesey.

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quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. The remaining lines and direction to Hamilton, in Vesey's hand, are transcribed as HAM/1/6/2/7(2).

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Horace Walpole to Elizabeth Vesey

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/2/7(1)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Elizabeth Vesey (née Vesey, later Handcock)

Place received: unknown

Date sent: not after 14 November 1783
notAfter 14 November 1783 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note addressed to Vesey, possibly written in Horace Walpole's hand. Walpole [Horatio (Horace), 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts] will wait on Mrs Vesey but 'with all his regard for her, [he] hopes she will not interpret it as a Visit solely for her sake'.
    Below this is a note from Vesey to Mary Hamilton, transcribed as HAM/1/6/2/7(2).
    Original reference No. 7.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 33 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 24 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: 21 April 2023

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