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HAM/1/6/6/4

Letter from Eva Maria Garrick to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


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My Dear Madam.

      I have lost this
Morning a sweet girl
a Daughter of my Nephew
in a Putred fever. I am
now at Hampton with
the Poor Parents.
      You may gueʃs that I
shall not be in a mood to
go to the Play tomorrow,
I have therefore written
to Lady Ailesbury to give
me leave to give my
Ticket to Lady Herries, &


if I succeed, I will send the
Ticket to your house to=
morrow morning; and you
will be so good to send it
to Lady Herries.
      believe me always to
      remain both your
                             faithful Friend
                                                         Maria Garrick

Friday June the 13:


Mrs Garrick
June 13th 1788


To
      Mrs: Dickinson

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 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text



My Dear Madam.

      I have lost this
Morning a sweet girl
a Daughter of my Nephew
in a Putrid fever. I am
now at Hampton with
the Poor Parents.
      You may guess that I
shall not be in a mood to
go to the Play tomorrow,
I have therefore written
to Lady Ailesbury to give
me leave to give my
Ticket to Lady Herries, &


if I succeed, I will send the
Ticket to your house tomorrow
 morning; and you
will be so good to send it
to Lady Herries.
      believe me always to
      remain both your
                             faithful Friend
                                                         Maria Garrick

Friday June the 13:




To
      Mrs: Dickinson

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Eva Maria Garrick to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/6/4

Correspondence Details

Sender: Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel)

Place sent: Hampton

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 13 June 1788

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Eva Maria Garrick to Mary Hamilton. She writes of the death of the daughter of her nephew. She is with the girl's parents and informs Hamilton that she will not attend the play tomorrow and will give her tickets to Lady Herries.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 108 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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