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Note from Dorothea Gregory to Mary Hamilton

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My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I'm very happy
to tell you that Mrs Montagu is  ------ pretty
well again tho' she does not expect
to be perfectly well till she get to
the Country as the heat of the Spring
Weather always disagree's with her
in town  ------------ and she desires me to tell you
that Sir Ricd. Jebbs Anodyns[1] had not power
to keep her quiet so great was her
disappointment at not being able to
wait on you last Saturday -- I shall
have the pleasure of waiting on you
Saturday Morning & am most
                                                         Sincerely yours
                                                               D Gregory
Tuesday 15th. May 1781

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Notes


 1. ‘A medicine or drug which alleviates pain’ (OED s.v. anodyne n. B.1. Accessed 19-08-2019).

Normalised Text


                                                        
My Dear Miss Hamilton
      I'm very happy
to tell you that Mrs Montagu is pretty
well again though she does not expect
to be perfectly well till she get to
the Country as the heat of the Spring
Weather always disagree's with her
in town and she desires me to tell you
that Sir Richard Jebbs Anodynes had not power
to keep her quiet so great was her
disappointment at not being able to
wait on you last Saturday -- I shall
have the pleasure of waiting on you
Saturday Morning & am most
                                                         Sincerely yours
                                                               Dorothea Gregory
Tuesday

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 1. ‘A medicine or drug which alleviates pain’ (OED s.v. anodyne n. B.1. Accessed 19-08-2019).

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Dorothea Gregory to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/7/3

Correspondence Details

Sender: Dorothea Montague Alison (née Gregory)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 15 May 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Dorothea Gregory to Mary Hamilton, updating Hamilton on the health of Mrs Montagu. She notes that she will visit Hamilton later that week.
    Original reference No. 3.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 98 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 19 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: 19 November 2021

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