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HAM/1/6/3/4

Copy of notes from Queen Charlotte and King George III to Mary Delany, from Horace Walpole to Mary Delany, and from Mary Delany to Horace Walpole

Diplomatic Text

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HAM/1/6/3/4(1)


HAM/1/6/3/4(2)

HAM/1/6/3/4(3)

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Notes


 1. The entire sheet is written in Mary Hamilton's hand, and the titles over each note are hers.

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HAM/1/6/3/4(1)


HAM/1/6/3/4(2)

HAM/1/6/3/4(3)

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 1. The entire sheet is written in Mary Hamilton's hand, and the titles over each note are hers.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Copy of notes from Queen Charlotte and King George III to Mary Delany, from Horace Walpole to Mary Delany, and from Mary Delany to Horace Walpole

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/3/4

Document Details

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Date: 7 November 1784; 28 and 30 November 1786

Summary: Copy of notes from Queen Charlotte and King George III to Mary Delany. They write separately in appreciation of Delany's catalogue of Bernard Granville's collection of Handel manuscripts.
    The other side of the sheet contains HAM/1/6/3/4(2) at the top, which is a copy of a note from Horace Walpole to Mary Delany to accompany a new edition of his Anecdotes of Painting in England. Walpole writes that he has been called upon to publish a new edition and that he ‘cou[l]d not in a History of English Arts resist ye agreeable occasion of doing justice to one who has founded a new branch’, and so has recorded her name in vol.2. Delany's reply is copied just below and is transcribed as HAM/1/6/3/4(3).
   

Length: 1 sheet, 3 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.

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: 7 July 2023

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