Diplomatic Text
The Provost of Eton presents his most respectful
acknowledgements to Miʃs Hamilton for her great
goodneʃs in communicating the very comfortable
contents of the inclosed -- He has great reason to
flatter Himself that the Symptoms which appeared
so dangerous might bring on a crisis, Tend favour=
-ably -- Such an event must give infinite satisfaction
to all who are acquaint --- ed with the excellence
of the Son & worth of the parent.
The Provost thinks it unfortunate that He
was not at home to return the inclosed as soon
as he had been made happy by the contents -- He
shall ever retain a proper senʃe of this singular
mark of Miʃs Hamilton's benevolence --
Ap: 8. past 12 in the Evening
1781
Lord Winchilsea's
Illneʃs
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Normalised Text
The Provost of Eton presents his most respectful
acknowledgements to Miss Hamilton for her great
goodness in communicating the very comfortable
contents of the enclosed -- He has great reason to
flatter Himself that the Symptoms which appeared
so dangerous might bring on a crisis, Tend favourably
-- Such an event must give infinite satisfaction
to all who are acquainted with the excellence
of the Son & worth of the parent.
The Provost thinks it unfortunate that He
was not at home to return the enclosed as soon
as he had been made happy by the contents -- He
shall ever retain a proper sense of this singular
mark of Miss Hamilton's benevolence --
April 8. past 12 in the Evening
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from William Roberts to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/6/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: William Hayward Roberts
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 8 April 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from the Provost of Eton [William Haywood Roberts (c.1734-1791),
Provost of Eton 1781-1791, and Chaplain to George III], writing in the
third person, to Mary Hamilton. The Provost presents his 'respectful
acknowledgements' to Hamilton for her letter. He discusses the illness,
apparently of Lord Winchilsea [George Finch, 1752-1826, 9th Earl of
Winchilsea]. 'He has great reason to flatter Himself that the Symptoms
which appeared so dangerous might bring on a crisis, & end favourably
– Such an event must give infinite satisfaction to all who are acquainted
with the excellence of the son & worth of the Parent'.
The letter is endorsed 'Lord Winchilsea's Illness'.
Length: 1 sheet, 117 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: 7 February 2022