Diplomatic Text
Mr: Hope preʃents his respectful Compts: to
Mrs: & Miʃs Hamilton. He is happy
to hear they are ʃafe return'd to Northton.[1]
He intends paying his respects to them in
perʃon, in the afternoon; if they do not
prevent him. -- In the mean while, he
begs Miʃs Hamilton's acceptance of the
Companion he promised to the laʃt Draw=
=ing he gave her -- It will ʃhew he has
amused himself, in her Abʃence, with other
Things than Concerts, Scandal, Excurʃions
& Verʃes. -- It has little merit than
being the only Drawing he has done
for eleven years paʃt, which, & the
Goodwill with which it is given,
muʃt plead with her for all it's
Imperfections. --
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This could be a visit that Hamilton and her mother paid to Margate, from which William Napier expected their return by mid-September 1773 (HAM/1/19/55).
Normalised Text
Mr: Hope presents his respectful Compliments to
Mrs: & Miss Hamilton. He is happy
to hear they are safe returned to Northampton.
He intends paying his respects to them in
person, in the afternoon; if they do not
prevent him. -- In the mean while, he
begs Miss Hamilton's acceptance of the
Companion he promised to the last Drawing
he gave her -- It will show he has
amused himself, in her Absence, with other
Things than Concerts, Scandal, Excursions
& Verses. -- It has little merit than
being the only Drawing he has done
for eleven years past, which, & the
Goodwill with which it is given,
must plead with her for all it's
Imperfections. --
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 John Hope to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/8/23
Correspondence Details
Sender: John Hope
Place sent: Northampton (certainty: medium)
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Northampton (certainty: medium)
Date sent: ?September 1773
when September 1773 (precision: low)
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from John Hope to Mary Hamilton. He presents his compliments to Hamilton and her mother and that he is happy to hear that they have both safely returned to Northampton. He intends to call on them that afternoon but in the meantime he has sent Hamilton a drawing he made in her absence which will prove that he did not spend his time at concerts and scandal.
Length: 1 sheet, 113 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
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 24 December 2021