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HAM/1/7/5/14

Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton
      Mr. Millar[1] is to be here tomorrow at ten o'clock
to explain his Book,[2] & my Mother hopes to see you
here when you some in from yr. Walk. I am very
sorry we did not see you today as I am going to take
a flight next week.
                             Yrs. Affly.
                                       S. Feilding
                                                         Friday Night
my little dears beg their Love.




      Miʃs Hamilton

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Notes


 1. This cannot be the Scottish professor of law, John Millar, who visited London only in 1774, before Hamilton became acquainted with Fielding at Court, and in 1792, after her marriage. It could possibly be the engraver and map publisher George Henry Millar (fl. 1780-1790).
 2. Possibly George Henry Millar, The new and universal system of geography (1782) or A New [...] System of Natural History (1785). Note that Hamilton had commented in what may be a diary fragment on her ‘paſsion for Natural History’ (GEO/ADD/3/83/37).

Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton
      Mr. Millar is to be here tomorrow at ten o'clock
to explain his Book, & my Mother hopes to see you
here when you some in from your Walk. I am very
sorry we did not see you today as I am going to take
a flight next week.
                             Yours Affectionately
                                       Sophia Feilding
                                                         Friday Night
my little dears beg their Love.




      Miss Hamilton

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 1. This cannot be the Scottish professor of law, John Millar, who visited London only in 1774, before Hamilton became acquainted with Fielding at Court, and in 1792, after her marriage. It could possibly be the engraver and map publisher George Henry Millar (fl. 1780-1790).
 2. Possibly George Henry Millar, The new and universal system of geography (1782) or A New [...] System of Natural History (1785). Note that Hamilton had commented in what may be a diary fragment on her ‘paſsion for Natural History’ (GEO/ADD/3/83/37).

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/1/7/5/14

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sophia Fielding (née Finch)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: medium)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: low)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton. She tells Hamilton that Mr Millar will come tomorrow to explain his book and Lady Finch invites Hamilton to come there after she has taken her walk.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 67 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 27 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: 27 September 2023

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