HAM/1/7/9/3
Note from Sophia Penn (later Stuart) on behalf of Lady Juliana Penn (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton
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My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
Mama's being prevented writing
is the reason I trouble you with this to say
how sorry We both are that we cannot meet you
at Sir Wm Hamilton's tomorrow, as other People &
their busineʃs depend upon us -- if it had only
depended on ourselves we should have put off any
thing with pleasure. we are much obliged to you
for endeavouring to procure us a sight of this Vase
Pray excuse the Scrawl I send but I am attending
my Neice in her Musick Leʃson & have my ears
so full of Crotchetts & quavers I hardly know what I
write. I shall hope for the pleasure of seeing you
next Friday & am my dear Miʃs Hamilton
your obliged Hble. Servt.
Sophia Penn
27th. Janry 1784[1]
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
Mama's being prevented writing
is the reason I trouble you with this to say
how sorry We both are that we cannot meet you
at Sir William Hamilton's tomorrow, as other People &
their business depend upon us -- if it had only
depended on ourselves we should have put off any
thing with pleasure. we are much obliged to you
for endeavouring to procure us a sight of this Vase
Pray excuse the Scrawl I send but I am attending
my Niece in her Music Lesson & have my ears
so full of Crotchets & quavers I hardly know what I
write. I shall hope for the pleasure of seeing you
next Friday & am my dear Miss Hamilton
your obliged Humble Servant
Sophia Penn
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Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Sophia Penn (later Stuart) on behalf of Lady Juliana Penn (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/9/3
Correspondence Details
Sender: Sophia Margaret Juliana Stuart (née Penn) and Juliana Penn (née Fermor)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 27 January 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Sophia Penn, writing on behalf of her mother Lady Juliana Penn, who is prevented from writing, to Mary Hamilton. She notes that she and her mother are unable to meet with Hamilton and her uncle, Sir William Hamilton, the following day.
Length: 1 sheet, 129 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: 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 24 November 2022)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 December 2022