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HAM/1/6/3/1

Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
have you engaged an equipage[2] to bring you & Mrs. Carter here
a Little before 4 -- if you have the Dʃs Dr. of Portland y will take
care of you home in the Evening -- tho frozen with out
I am inwardly as warm as you can wish me to be
                             Yours      MD
Friday 13th Febry
      1784


13 Feb. 84[3]

To Miss Hamilton[4]

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Notes


 1. The image differs from that in the University of Manchester LUNA catalogue, as p.1 and p.2 have been swapped for ease of presentation.
 2. ‘A carriage and horses, with the attendant servants; in later use sometimes applied to a carriage alone’ (OED s.v. equipage n. 12. Accessed 18-08-2020).
 3. This date is written vertically in the left margin of p.2.
 4. This line appears in the middle of the page, with the addressee's name split in three, with three different orientations, by unfolding.

Normalised Text


have you engaged an equipage to bring you & Mrs. Carter here
a Little before 4 -- if you have the Duchess Dowager of Portland will take
care of you home in the Evening -- though frozen with out
I am inwardly as warm as you can wish me to be
                             Yours      Mary Delany



13 February 84

To Miss Hamilton

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 1. The image differs from that in the University of Manchester LUNA catalogue, as p.1 and p.2 have been swapped for ease of presentation.
 2. ‘A carriage and horses, with the attendant servants; in later use sometimes applied to a carriage alone’ (OED s.v. equipage n. 12. Accessed 18-08-2020).
 3. This date is written vertically in the left margin of p.2.
 4. This line appears in the middle of the page, with the addressee's name split in three, with three different orientations, by unfolding.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/3/1

Correspondence Details

Sender: Georgina Mary Anne Waddington (née Port) and formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 13 February 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton. She asks if Hamilton has engaged a carriage for herself and Mrs Carter [Elizabeth Carter] to visit her and informs her that the Duchess of Portland will be able to take them home in the evening.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 58 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 18 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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