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HAM/1/7/6/3

Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his Complements to Miʃs
Hamilton, & begs her to accept his sincerest thanks for
her kind note, & her obliging enquiries about the state of
his Eyes.           Mr. F. had felt himself much distreʃsed
to know in what manner he should expreʃs his gratitude
to her Majesty for being so gracious as to prescribe for him,
but he was this morning releived from his anxiety on that
account, as he had the good fortune to be honoured with a
[q]uarter of an hours conversation with the Queen at Kew.
      Mr. F. had the pleasure of breakfasting with Lord &
Lady Dartrey last week.
      Mr. F.'s friend & Collegue begs his Comps:
      to Miʃs H.

Kew. Oct: 22. 1781

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Normalised Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his Compliments to Miss
Hamilton, & begs her to accept his sincerest thanks for
her kind note, & her obliging enquiries about the state of
his Eyes.           Mr. Fisher had felt himself much distressed
to know in what manner he should express his gratitude
to her Majesty for being so gracious as to prescribe for him,
but he was this morning relieved from his anxiety on that
account, as he had the good fortune to be honoured with a
quarter of an hours conversation with the Queen at Kew.
      Mr. Fisher had the pleasure of breakfasting with Lord &
Lady Dartrey last week.
      Mr. Fisher's friend & Colleague begs his Compliments
      to Miss Hamilton

Kew. October 22. 1781

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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/1/7/6/3

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: Kew

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 22 October 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton. The note relates to the health of Fisher and of his meeting with the Queen.
    Dated at Kew.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 121 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

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