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HAM/1/7/12/11

Letter from Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


11.

      My Dear Miʃs Hamilton



      I am but just come to town, and was sorry to see your
Card that you had given your self the trouble to call, I beleive
I shall goe out of town again for about a week nixt Saturday,
to mr Irbys in Kent, when I return I hope wee shall meet often
which will allways give me pleasure, and I shall be happy to hear
you have spent your Summer in good health,
I take the liberty to trouble you with the Queens knoting, and
should be glad to have some more to carry out of town, with
me to have some thing to doe, if you can send it without
puting your Self to much inconveince, I have likewise
taken the liberty to send her Majesty a Purse of my
Netting as she used to like them, and Shall be much




obliged to you to deliver it to her Majesty with my most
respectful duty, and I beg you will be aʃsured
                             my Dear Madam
                             of my most affectionat regard
                             and am your much obliged
                             Cath: Walkinshaw
Maddox Street
Janr 2th 1782[1]

Many happy years
attend you adieu

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Notes


 1. The dateline appears to the left of the salutation.

Normalised Text



      My Dear Miss Hamilton



      I am but just come to town, and was sorry to see your
Card that you had given your self the trouble to call, I believe
I shall go out of town again for about a week next Saturday,
to mr Irbys in Kent, when I return I hope we shall meet often
which will always give me pleasure, and I shall be happy to hear
you have spent your Summer in good health,
I take the liberty to trouble you with the Queens knotting, and
should be glad to have some more to carry out of town, with
me to have some thing to do, if you can send it without
putting your Self to much inconvenience, I have likewise
taken the liberty to send her Majesty a Purse of my
Netting as she used to like them, and Shall be much




obliged to you to deliver it to her Majesty with my most
respectful duty, and I beg you will be assured
                             my Dear Madam
                             of my most affectionate regard
                             and am your much obliged
                             Catherine Walkinshaw
Maddox Street
January 2th 1782

Many happy years
attend you adieu

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 1. The dateline appears to the left of the salutation.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/12/11

Correspondence Details

Sender: Catherine Walkinshaw

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 2 June 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton. The letter relates to Hamilton's calling on Walkinshaw while she has been out of town and of Walkinshaw asking for some materials from the Queen (via Hamilton) so that she will have something to do whilst she is again away from town.
    Dated at Maddox Street [London].
    Original reference No. 11.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 194 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 26 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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