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HAM/1/7/6/9

Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his best Compliments to Miʃs Hamilton
& begs the favour of her to inform the Queen, that the two
Drawings which her Majesty was graciously pleased to
command some time since are finished.      Mr. Fisher
wishes to know in what manner he should convey them to her
Majesty.         Shall he send them to Miʃs Hamilton, &
beg the favour of her to present them?
      Mr Roberts is so
obliging as to take this, & will wait for Miʃs Hamiltons
answer.

      Friday Morn: 6th. Septr. 1782

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Normalised Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his best Compliments to Miss Hamilton
& begs the favour of her to inform the Queen, that the two
Drawings which her Majesty was graciously pleased to
command some time since are finished.      Mr. Fisher
wishes to know in what manner he should convey them to her
Majesty.         Shall he send them to Miss Hamilton, &
beg the favour of her to present them?
      Mr Roberts is so
obliging as to take this, & will wait for Miss Hamiltons
answer.

      Friday Morning 6th. September 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/1/7/6/9

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 6 September 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton. He asks her to inform the Queen that the two drawings that she 'was graciously pleased to command' are now finished.
    The note was taken to Hamilton by W. Roberts (see HAM/1/7/6/2).
   

Length: 1 sheet, 88 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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