Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/7/12/19

Cover sheet for letter series

Diplomatic Text


About knotting work undertaken
for Queen Charlotte, M.H being the go between,
great devotion to Royal Family


      Letters
      from
Cath. & Mrs- Walkinshaw[1]
      to their
      Cousin
      Miss Hamilton
      Nos- 1 to 18.
      29th- June 1779 to 4th March 1784

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Notes


 1. Catherine Walkinshaw and Mrs Walkinshaw are the same person. As was more customary in the eighteenth century, Mrs as a title was not only used for married women but also for (older) women who governed subjects (e.g. servants, apprentices) or women who were skilled or who taught. It was thus also an indicator of social and not just marital status.

Normalised Text




      Letters
      from
Catherine & Mrs- Walkinshaw
      to their
      Cousin
      Miss Hamilton
      Nos- 1 to 18.
      29th- June 1779 to 4th March 1784

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 1. Catherine Walkinshaw and Mrs Walkinshaw are the same person. As was more customary in the eighteenth century, Mrs as a title was not only used for married women but also for (older) women who governed subjects (e.g. servants, apprentices) or women who were skilled or who taught. It was thus also an indicator of social and not just marital status.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Cover sheet for letter series

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/12/19

Document Details

Author:

Date: n.d.

Summary: Cover sheet listing the letters in this section presumably written by a member of the Anson family.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 22 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: 3 November 2021

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