Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/7/13/5(2)

Note from Mary Hamilton to Johanna Louisa Hagedorn

Diplomatic Text


Favor me my Dear Mrs. Hagerdorn by your
Acceptance of this little picture, as the subject
of it will remind you of a Country that is dear
to you, so also let this Gift though of small
Value, remind you sometimes of Your
                             affectionate friend
                                  Mary Hamilton
9th. Decbr. 1782

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Normalised Text


Favour me my Dear Mrs. Hagerdorn by your
Acceptance of this little picture, as the subject
of it will remind you of a Country that is dear
to you, so also let this Gift though of small
Value, remind you sometimes of Your
                             affectionate friend
                                  Mary Hamilton
9th. December 1782

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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 Mary Hamilton to Johanna Louisa Hagedorn

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/13/5(2)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Johanna Louisa Hagedorn

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 9 December 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Hamilton to Mrs Hagedorn [Johanna Louisa Hagedorn, Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte], asking her to accept 'this little picture, as the subject of it will remind you of a Country that is dear to you'.
    On the other side of the sheet is a note of the same date from Mrs Schwellenberg to Hamilton, transcribed as HAM/1/7/13/5(1). It is not clear how the notes are related, especially as HAM/1/1/1/10, also of the same date, contains a request from Schwellenberg, not Hagedorn, for a picture of Hamilton's.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 50 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 15 March 2021)

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: 30 April 2023

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