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Dear friend
How kind you are to
think of your old woman and true
friend in sending such a rarity; for
the poor birds who have so many
enemies must be scarce. I thank you
therefore for your love which I re
turn from my heart. I have been for
this six week a sick animal and
kept my room: which by the by is no
great hardship to me, if not in great
pain and can amuse my mind. I suppose
you are all well and lazy not to write
a line to your true and faithful
E:M: Garrick
Hampton Saturday
Octr: the 15: 1808
the family of love
the Dickensons'.
at the singgn
of comfort
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This letter and HAM/1/6/6/8 were both erroneously catalogued with the date 1800. The corrected dates exchange their chronological order, which therefore differs from the numerical sequence in the University of Manchester LUNA catalogue.
Normalised Text
Dear friend
How kind you are to
think of your old woman and true
friend in sending such a rarity; for
the poor birds who have so many
enemies must be scarce. I thank you
therefore for your love which I return
from my heart. I have been for
this six week a sick animal and
kept my room: which by the by is no
great hardship to me, if not in great
pain and can amuse my mind. I suppose
you are all well and lazy not to write
a line to your true and faithful
Eva Maria Garrick
Hampton Saturday
October the 15:
the family of love
the Dickensons'.
at the sign
of comfort
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
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/1/6/6/9
Correspondence Details
Sender: Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel)
Place sent: Hampton
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Leighton Buzzard (certainty: low)
Date sent: 15 October 1808
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Eva Maria Garrick to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she has been ill and has had to keep to her room, although she says that this is no great hardship, for as long as she is not in great pain she can 'amuse [her] mind'.
Dated at Hampton.
Length: 1 sheet, 117 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2018/19 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Chenming Gao, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Emma Alonso-Ramonet, dissertation student, University of Vigo (submitted April 2019)
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