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HAM/1/7/6/5

Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his best Compliments to Miʃs
Hamilton, & begs she will do him the honour to accept
the Drawing of Pevensea Castle. Mr. F. would have
waited upon Miʃs H. this morning, if he had not thought
a visit would have been inconvenient to her, as he supposes
she must be busied in preparing for the Drawing Room.
      Mr. F. flatters himself however, that he shall have
the pleasure of seeing Miʃs H. to offer her the Compliments of
the Season, before she goes to Windsor.

St. James's. Jan: 1. 1782.

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Normalised Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his best Compliments to Miss
Hamilton, & begs she will do him the honour to accept
the Drawing of Pevensea Castle. Mr. Fisher would have
waited upon Miss Hamilton this morning, if he had not thought
a visit would have been inconvenient to her, as he supposes
she must be busied in preparing for the Drawing Room.
      Mr. Fisher flatters himself however, that he shall have
the pleasure of seeing Miss H. to offer her the Compliments of
the Season, before she goes to Windsor.

St. James's. January 1. 1782.

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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/1/7/6/5

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 1 January 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton. He sends his compliments to Hamilton and sends her a drawing of Pevensey Castle. He notes that he would have waited upon her but assumed that she would be busy preparing for the Drawing Room but hopes to see her before she goes to Windsor.
    Dated at St James's [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 93 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 5 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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