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

Note from Elizabeth Vesey to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
[2]
      I declare I will not be convenient
to you madm Flirt if you do not invite
Sr Wm Hamilton whom all my freinds
are so fond off I expect you will make us
acquainted


To miʃsMiʃs
Miʃs Hamilton[3]


To
Miʃs Hamilton[4][5]

Vesey[6]

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Notes


 1. The first 3 lines, a short paragraph and direction to Vesey, are in Walpole's hand and are transcribed in HAM/1/6/2/7(1).
 2. The remaining lines and direction to Hamilton are in Vesey's hand.
 3. This address line is written vertically in the middle of the page.
 4. This address is written upside down in the bottom-right corner.
 5. Several false starts have been made on this address. It is possible that they were initially written before the sheet was folded, and afterwards hidden from view by the folds in the paper.
 6. This annotation is written vertically in the left margin.

Normalised Text



      I declare I will not be convenient
to you madam Flirt if you do not invite
Sir William Hamilton whom all my friends
are so fond of I expect you will make us
acquainted


To Miss
Hamilton





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 1. The first 3 lines, a short paragraph and direction to Vesey, are in Walpole's hand and are transcribed in HAM/1/6/2/7(1).
 2. The remaining lines and direction to Hamilton are in Vesey's hand.
 3. This address line is written vertically in the middle of the page.
 4. This address is written upside down in the bottom-right corner.
 5. Several false starts have been made on this address. It is possible that they were initially written before the sheet was folded, and afterwards hidden from view by the folds in the paper.
 6. This annotation is written vertically in the left margin.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Elizabeth Vesey to Mary Hamilton

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

Correspondence Details

Sender: Elizabeth Vesey (née Vesey, later Handcock)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: medium)

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

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Elizabeth Vesey to Mary Hamilton concerning Sir William Hamilton. She says all her friends are 'so fond of' him and asks to be introduced.
    This is appended to a note that had been addressed to Vesey, possibly written in Horace Walpole's hand, and transcribed as HAM/1/6/2/7(1).
    Original reference No. 7.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 37 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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