Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/7/5/6

Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton
      As so many unlucky circumstances have
come in the way of our Evening meetings with you
dine with me téte a tête today -- I know it is not yr.
Evening but we shd. have a very comfortable time
together before yr. waiting begins
                                                         Yrs. sincerely
                                                         S. Feilding
Wednesday Novbr. 11th- 1778

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My dear Miss Hamilton
      As so many unlucky circumstances have
come in the way of our Evening meetings with you
dine with me téte a tête today -- I know it is not your
Evening but we should have a very comfortable time
together before your waiting begins
                                                         Yours sincerely
                                                         Sophia Feilding
Wednesday November 11th- 1778

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Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/5/6

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sophia Fielding (née Finch)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 11 November 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton. She writes to organise to meet with Hamilton.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 55 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 1 February 2021)

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 November 2021

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