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HAM/1/7/6/15

Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his Comps. to Miʃs Hamilton, &
is extremely sorry he is under the absolute neceʃsity of breaking
his engagement for tomorrow. But he shall think himself
happy to attend Miʃs H. either on Tuesday or Thursday in the
next week, when probably both the weather & the roads will
be more favourable for a walking party.

      St. James's Wed: 18 June 1783

      Some great Political Storm is brewing up: Mr. F.
has this moment been informed of it, but the particulars he is as yet
ignorant of. --

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Normalised Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his Compliments to Miss Hamilton, &
is extremely sorry he is under the absolute necessity of breaking
his engagement for tomorrow. But he shall think himself
happy to attend Miss Hamilton either on Tuesday or Thursday in the
next week, when probably both the weather & the roads will
be more favourable for a walking party.

      St. James's Wednesday

      Some great Political Storm is brewing up: Mr. Fisher
has this moment been informed of it, but the particulars he is as yet
ignorant of. --

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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/1/7/6/15

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 18 June 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton, relating to rearranging an engagement. A note at the bottom of the sheet states that 'Some great political storm is brewing'. Fisher has been informed of it but does not yet know the details.
    Dated at St James's [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 87 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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