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HAM/1/7/12/18

Note from Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         18.
                                                         maddox Street / Monday
Mrs Walkinshaw presents her Compliments to Miʃs Hamilton
and was very Sorry She was not at home this Morning when
She did her The favour to Call, She has sent her some of the
Scans of Silk about four and Twenty of them, which is
not quite one half, but if She does them first She can have more,
mrs Walkinshaw hopes Prince Adolphus and Princeʃs Mary
are both in a good Way which most give her inexpressable pleasure
to hear, Lord and Lady Stormont Set out for Bath on Saturday,[1]

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Normalised Text


                                                        
                                                         maddox Street / Monday
Mrs Walkinshaw presents her Compliments to Miss Hamilton
and was very Sorry She was not at home this Morning when
She did her The favour to Call, She has sent her some of the
Skeins of Silk about four and Twenty of them, which is
not quite one half, but if She does them first She can have more,
mrs Walkinshaw hopes Prince Adolphus and Princess Mary
are both in a good Way which must give her inexpressible pleasure
to hear, Lord and Lady Stormont Set out for Bath on Saturday,

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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 Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/12/18

Correspondence Details

Sender: Catherine Walkinshaw

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: medium)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton. She is sorry that she was not at home when Hamilton called that morning and says that she has sent her some silk.
    Dated at Maddox Street [London].
    Original reference No. 18.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 95 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 3 December 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: 27 September 2023

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