Diplomatic Text
I had promised myself the pleasure of
waiting on you soon after your obliging enquiry,
but the severity of the Weather and a great Cold
confined me to the House almost ever since, but
as I am no longer under restraint I shall do myself
that honor very soon.
I was inform'd that Mrs Hamilton in
Manchester Square wanted a Servant in Sallys
Place, the Young Woman the bearer of this I wish
much to recommend; I have known her some Years
She is a Virtuous good tempered Girl, can dreʃs
hair and is otherwise qualified to wait on a
Lady, if Mrs Hamilton is not already provided
I shall be obliged to you if you will recommend
Her, and I trust she will not discredit your re=
=commendation.
I am Dear Madam
Your Most Obedient
Humbl- Ser ---
Maria Matilda Nevin
Queens House
Wednesday feby- 25 1784
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Normalised Text
Dear Madam
I had promised myself the pleasure of
waiting on you soon after your obliging enquiry,
but the severity of the Weather and a great Cold
confined me to the House almost ever since, but
as I am no longer under restraint I shall do myself
that honour very soon.
I was informed that Mrs Hamilton in
Manchester Square wanted a Servant in Sallys
Place, the Young Woman the bearer of this I wish
much to recommend; I have known her some Years
She is a Virtuous good tempered Girl, can dress
hair and is otherwise qualified to wait on a
Lady, if Mrs Hamilton is not already provided
I shall be obliged to you if you will recommend
Her, and I trust she will not discredit your recommendation
.
I am Dear Madam
Your Most Obedient
Humble Servant
Maria Matilda Nevin
Queens House
Wednesday february 25
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Maria Matilda Nevin to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/2/22
Correspondence Details
Sender: Maria Matilda Nevin
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: low)
Date sent: 25 February 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Maria Matilda Nevin to Mary Hamilton. The letter relates to the recommendation of a servant to replace 'Sally', who worked for Mrs Hamilton at Manchester Square. Maria Matilda writes to recommend a young woman who she has known for years and who is described as 'a virtuous good tempered girl' who can dress hair and is in qualified to wait on a Lady.
Dated at Queen's House.
Length: 1 sheet, 147 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: 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 21 November 2022)
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 December 2022