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HAM/1/7/6/16

Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his Compliments to Miʃs
Hamilton
, & returns her the Milkwomans verses[1]
accompanied with the money for eight subscriptions
      Mr. F. took the Liberty of mentioning the subject
to a certain great Lady, but found her already ac=
quainted
with all the Circumstances of the case,
which had been communicated to her by Mrs. Delaney.
      Mr. F is very sorry he cannot have the
pleasure of seeing Miʃs Hamilton this week, as
the whole of his time is taken up with attendance,
but hopes to have an opportunity of waiting upon
her in the next week. --

St. Jamess Jan: 20 1785

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Notes


 1. Ann Yearsley (1785) Poems, on Several Occasions.

Normalised Text


      Mr. Fisher presents his Compliments to Miss
Hamilton, & returns her the Milkwomans verses
accompanied with the money for eight subscriptions
      Mr. Fisher took the Liberty of mentioning the subject
to a certain great Lady, but found her already acquainted
with all the Circumstances of the case,
which had been communicated to her by Mrs. Delaney.
      Mr. Fisher is very sorry he cannot have the
pleasure of seeing Miss Hamilton this week, as
the whole of his time is taken up with attendance,
but hopes to have an opportunity of waiting upon
her in the next week. --

St. Jamess January 20

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 1. Ann Yearsley (1785) Poems, on Several Occasions.

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/1/7/6/16

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 20 January 1785

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton. He returns the Milkwomans verses, with the money for eight subscriptions. [The reference relates to a work written by Ann Yearsley (1752-1806). Yearsley was a milk seller prior to being a poet, who suffered from poverty. Hannah More came across her and recognised her literary talents and organised for her poems to be published by subscription in 1785; see also HAM/1/6/6/2.] Fisher notes that he had taken the liberty to mention the 'subject to a certain great Lady' [presumably the Queen] but she had already been informed of the subject by Mary Delany.
    Dated at St James's [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 101 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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