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HAM/1/7/4/5

Letter from John Farhill to Mary Hamilton

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Friday morn 6th July 1781


      Notwithstanding I feel myself under
your displeasure I cannot help enqui
ring
after your health. And is it
poʃsible then, my dear Miʃs Hamilton
that a slight omiʃsion, & that
apologizd for, shoud be punish'd by
the Forfeiture of yr Friendship?
When Prince Edward returnd from W.
he informd me you had been
very ill. I wishd to make many
enquiries which I knew coud not
be answerd -- I hoped to see you
on Wednesday here. In this also
I was disappointed. If therefore
I am no longer what I was, write
to Fisher, he has not offended you,
& give him an account of yr Health.
                                                         Ever yrs J. F.



6th. July 1781

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Friday morning 6th July 1781


      Notwithstanding I feel myself under
your displeasure I cannot help enquiring
after your health. And is it
possible then, my dear Miss Hamilton
that a slight omission, & that
apologized for, should be punished by
the Forfeiture of your Friendship?
When Prince Edward returned from Windsor
he informed me you had been
very ill. I wished to make many
enquiries which I knew could not
be answered -- I hoped to see you
on Wednesday here. In this also
I was disappointed. If therefore
I am no longer what I was, write
to Fisher, he has not offended you,
& give him an account of your Health.
                                                         Ever yours John Farhill



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Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from John Farhill to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/4/5

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Farhill

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Windsor (certainty: high)

Date sent: 6 July 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from John Farhill to Mary Hamilton. He writes to enquire on Hamilton's health. He notes that despite her displeasure with him he is concerned for her health after Prince Edward had returned from Windsor informed him that she had been very ill. Farhill asks Hamilton to write to John Fisher (HAM/1/7/6) with an account of her health as 'he has not offended you'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 115 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 26 October 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: 7 February 2022

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