Diplomatic Text
[1]
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Converʃation, of laʃt night, ʃufficiently
ʃhew'd the value I put upon their friend=
=ʃhip, & that I wiʃh to preʃerve their
Eʃteem. -- Inclosed is the Supplement
I promised to my tragic Tale.[2] -- Theʃe
Copies of my dear Mary's Letters[3] will
ʃhew, (by their Style,) that her mind,
when ʃhe wrote them, did not poʃseʃs
that Compoʃure ʃhe was bleʃs'd with
when ʃhe wrote me from Bath. --
I intended to have pointed them, to make
them more legible for you; but I believe
you will be able to read them ʃcribbled as they
are. --
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This letter is catalogued out of sequence. It belongs chronologically soon after HAM/1/6/8/1, which it refers to, and before Hope had ‘forfeit[ed] [the Hamiltons'] friendship’ (HAM/1/6/8/2).
2. The long letter of 9 March 1773 (HAM/1/6/8/1).
3. Mary Breton, whom John Hope married in 1762, committed suicide in 1767.
Normalised Text
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------------------------------------------------------------; -- the long
Conversation, of last night, sufficiently
showed the value I put upon their friendship
, & that I wish to preserve their
Esteem. -- Enclosed is the Supplement
I promised to my tragic Tale. -- These
Copies of my dear Mary's Letters will
show, (by their Style,) that her mind,
when she wrote them, did not possess
that Composure she was blessed with
when she wrote me from Bath. --
I intended to have pointed them, to make
them more legible for you; but I believe
you will be able to read them scribbled as they
are. --
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Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Covering note from John Hope to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/8/6
Correspondence Details
Sender: John Hope
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: March 1773
notBefore 9 March 1773 (precision: high)
notAfter March 1773 (precision: medium)
Letter Description
Summary: Covering note from John Hope to Mary Hamilton, enclosing copies of his late wife's letters described in the 'Tragic Tale' of his previous letter.
Length: 1 sheet, 95 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 19 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: 6 January 2022