Diplomatic Text
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Honble. Horace Walpoles Note to Mrs. Delany wth-
ye. New Edition of his anecdotes onof Painting --
Berkely Square London Novbr. 28th. 1786
Mr. Walpole having been call'd upon for a new edition of ye
Anecdotes on Painting coud not in a History of English Arts
resist ye agreeable occasion of doing justice to one who
has founded a new branch. He takes hopes therefore yt-
Mrs. Delany will forgive him the liberty he has taken of
recording Her name in Vol. 2 P. 242 & yt. she will Please
to consider how cruel it wd. have been for Him to be denied ye.
satisfaction of mentioning Her only because He has ye. Honor
& happineʃs of her acquaintance.
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Notes
1. The entire sheet is written in Mary Hamilton's hand, and the title over the note is hers. Title and note are the first two paragraphs on the image, 12 lines in all.
2. Hamilton goes on to copy Delany's reply, transcribed as HAM/1/6/3/4(3).
Normalised Text
Berkely Square London November 28th. 1786
Mr. Walpole having been called upon for a new edition of the
Anecdotes on Painting could not in a History of English Arts
resist the agreeable occasion of doing justice to one who
has founded a new branch. He hopes therefore that
Mrs. Delany will forgive him the liberty he has taken of
recording Her name in Vol. 2 P. 242 & that she will Please
to consider how cruel it would have been for Him to be denied the
satisfaction of mentioning Her only because He has the Honour
& happiness of her acquaintance.
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Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Copy of note from Horace Walpole to Mary Delany
Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/3/4(2)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Place sent: London
Addressee: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville
Place received: Windsor
Date sent: 28 November 1786
Letter Description
Summary: Copy of 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).
The other side of the sheet contains HAM/1/6/3/4(1).
Length: 1 sheet, 101 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 18 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: 22 April 2023