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HAM/1/7/6/1

Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

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      Mr. Fisher presents his best Compliments to
Miʃs Hamilton, & congratulates her on her return to Winter
Quarters, -- hopes she feels no ill consequences from the
very disagreable accident of yesterday, an alarming
account of which he has just had from Mr. B.
      Mr. F. is very much obliged by Miʃs H.s very kind note,
he will with the greatest pleasure avail himself of her offer
for tomorrow Evening.
      Mr. F. feels himself extremely
flattered by the concluding part of Miʃs H.s note. It has
been the sincerest wish of his heart to be allowed to keep up an
acquaintance which has been the source of such real satisfaction
that he shall ever look back upon the Summer of the year 80,
as time spent ye most pleasingly & rationally of any in his life.

St. James's Mond: Evening. 29th. Octbr. 1780



Sundries

to be look'd over
before I burn ym. as
[th]ey are
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      Mr. Fisher presents his best Compliments to
Miss Hamilton, & congratulates her on her return to Winter
Quarters, -- hopes she feels no ill consequences from the
very disagreeable accident of yesterday, an alarming
account of which he has just had from Mr. Bruyeres.
      Mr. Fisher is very much obliged by Miss Hamiltons very kind note,
he will with the greatest pleasure avail himself of her offer
for tomorrow Evening.
      Mr. Fisher feels himself extremely
flattered by the concluding part of Miss Hamiltons note. It has
been the sincerest wish of his heart to be allowed to keep up an
acquaintance which has been the source of such real satisfaction
that he shall ever look back upon the Summer of the year 80,
as time spent the most pleasingly & rationally of any in his life.

St. James's Monday Evening. 29th. October 1780





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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 John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/6/1

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 29 October 1780

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton. He welcomes Hamilton back to her 'Winter Quarters' and hopes that she has recovered from the accident she suffered yesterday. Fisher writes that he wishes to keep Hamilton has an acquaintance He notes that he will 'look back upon the summer of the year 80, as time spent [the] most pleasingly & rationally of any in [...] [my] life'.
    Dated at St James's [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 142 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 12 November 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: 2 November 2021

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