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HAM/1/7/6/12

Letter from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         Kew. Frid. morn. 4th. Octbr. 1782

      If I recollect aright I promised to lend to Miʃs
Hamilton Sr. Jos: Reynolds discourses[1], I have therefore sent
them to her, & make use of the opportunity to enquire after her
health.
      I must beg to trouble her also to give the enclosed
note, with my best Compliments to Mrs. Hagerdorn.
      Miʃs Hamilton will be good enough also to present my
best Compliments to Monr. de Luc, & to inform him that I received
his books of which I will take all imaginable care : I have
not yet been able to make much progreʃs in them as during the
Princes two last visits at Windsor, I was absent from Kew.
      The Port Folio of Drawings arrived safe.[2]
I am obliged to Miʃs Hamilton for her kind Letter & beg leave
to subscribe myself her
                             Much obliged most obedient humble Servant
                                                         J. Fisher
P.S.x[3] My Fellow Labourer is
considerably better.


All Sun Shine chez nous.
                             + Mr Farhill

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Notes


 1. Joshua Reynolds (1778) Discourses on Art.
 2. This is not the first discussion of exchange of drawings between Fisher and Hamilton. See HAM/1/7/6/4 of 19 December 1781, in which Fisher requests to borrow a drawing of Hamilton's on his brother's behalf.
 3. The cross here relates to the annotation below the postscript.

Normalised Text


                                                         Kew. Friday morning 4th. October 1782

      If I recollect aright I promised to lend to Miss
Hamilton Sir Joshua Reynolds discourses, I have therefore sent
them to her, & make use of the opportunity to enquire after her
health.
      I must beg to trouble her also to give the enclosed
note, with my best Compliments to Mrs. Hagerdorn.
      Miss Hamilton will be good enough also to present my
best Compliments to Monsieur de Luc, & to inform him that I received
his books of which I will take all imaginable care : I have
not yet been able to make much progress in them as during the
Princes two last visits at Windsor, I was absent from Kew.
      The Port Folio of Drawings arrived safe.
I am obliged to Miss Hamilton for her kind Letter & beg leave
to subscribe myself her
                             Much obliged most obedient humble Servant
                                                         John Fisher
P.S. My Fellow Labourer is
considerably better.


All Sun Shine chez nous.
                            

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 1. Joshua Reynolds (1778) Discourses on Art.
 2. This is not the first discussion of exchange of drawings between Fisher and Hamilton. See HAM/1/7/6/4 of 19 December 1781, in which Fisher requests to borrow a drawing of Hamilton's on his brother's behalf.
 3. The cross here relates to the annotation below the postscript.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/6/12

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: Kew

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 4 October 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton. The letter relates to books including Sir Joshua Reynold's Discourses , which Fisher forwards to Hamilton.
    A note at the bottom of the sheet states that 'my Fellow Labourer is considerably better', Mr Farhill.
    Dated at Kew.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 161 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 28 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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