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Letter from Mrs Penelope Iremonger (née Morgan) to Mary Hamilton

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      Your obliging, Friendly, & most
entertaining letter arrived this morning my
dear Mrs Dickenson, & I take the earliest
opportunity of returning my grateful thanks
for it, as well as for former instances
of your goodneʃs & attention.     I rejoice
that your progreʃs has been so pleasant, and
that in the course of it you have been gratified
with the sight of so many of your friends;
I sincerely hope that weather along with every



other favorable circumstance, may attend you all
to the conclusion of it;     I am very glad to hear
that so many people of worth & judgement, feel
as you mention, for Mrs- W.; who will want now
------------every support & comfort to keep up her spirits
I should think,, under the hard & severe treatment
she meets with:     newspapers, it is to be
hoped she will not for some time,, look into.
I have already mention'd the friendly concern
you expreʃs'd for her,     wch I shall on the first
opportunity give her the pleasure of again hearing
according to your kind desire.     in answer to
the enquiries you are so good as to make I may
now say we are all well thank God! tho Monday
night we were much alarmed for Mr. Iremonger


who was taken so very ill as to make us all appre=
hend
an inflamation in his bowell,;     his
complaint is now entirely removed, & Miʃs Iremonger
has recovered in some measure from an indisposition
she has had since you left this     Cath: too
is now well, & shared with us all I aʃsure
you in the pleasures & advantages we derived
from yours & Mr Dickensons most kind & agreeable
visit;     she is much politer than she was, &
this is the observation of all in the house, wch is
at present full,,     & not proceeding only from my
partial view & opinion of her.     she often
speaks of the sweet little Louisa & desires I will
send her a Love & kiʃs for her     She is much



indebted to you My dear Mrs- Dickenson & Lady Wake to
whom I beg to be most kindly remember'd, as does
Mr. Iremonger..     we both rejoice to hear she is well,
I was particularly delighted wth the paragraph
you were so good as to send me from Lady De Vescies
letters, in whose welfare every one must be
interested who knows her.     Mr. Iremonger & all
the Family
you left here, desire I would
along with my own, aʃsure you & Mr. Dickenson of their sincere
regards, & goodneʃs wishes,     and of the gratefull
sense entertain'd here of the friendly & polite
attention, received from you both
                             believe me my dearest Madam
                                your very affecte & much obliged
                                                         P Iremonger
Wherwell
Novbr ye 6 1788[1]

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      Your obliging, Friendly, & most
entertaining letter arrived this morning my
dear Mrs Dickenson, & I take the earliest
opportunity of returning my grateful thanks
for it, as well as for former instances
of your goodness & attention.     I rejoice
that your progress has been so pleasant, and
that in the course of it you have been gratified
with the sight of so many of your friends;
I sincerely hope that weather along with every



other favourable circumstance, may attend you all
to the conclusion of it;     I am very glad to hear
that so many people of worth & judgement, feel
as you mention, for Mrs- Walsingham; who will want now
every support & comfort to keep up her spirits
I should think,, under the hard & severe treatment
she meets with:     newspapers, it is to be
hoped she will not for some time,, look into.
I have already mentioned the friendly concern
you expressed for her,     which I shall on the first
opportunity give her the pleasure of again hearing
according to your kind desire.     in answer to
the enquiries you are so good as to make I may
now say we are all well thank God! though Monday
night we were much alarmed for Mr. Iremonger


who was taken so very ill as to make us all apprehend
an inflamation in his bowel,;     his
complaint is now entirely removed, & Miss Iremonger
has recovered in some measure from an indisposition
she has had since you left this     Catherine too
is now well, & shared with us all I assure
you in the pleasures & advantages we derived
from yours & Mr Dickensons most kind & agreeable
visit;     she is much politer than she was, &
this is the observation of all in the house, which is
at present full,,     & not proceeding only from my
partial view & opinion of her.     she often
speaks of the sweet little Louisa & desires I will
send her a Love & kiss for her     She is much



indebted to you My dear Mrs- Dickenson & Lady Wake to
whom I beg to be most kindly remembered, as does
Mr. Iremonger..     we both rejoice to hear she is well,
I was particularly delighted with the paragraph
you were so good as to send me from Lady De Vescies
letters, in whose welfare every one must be
interested who knows her.     Mr. Iremonger & all
the Family you left here, desire I would
along with my own, assure you & Mr. Dickenson of their sincere
regards, & good wishes,     and of the grateful
sense entertained here of the friendly & polite
attention, received from you both
                             believe me my dearest Madam
                                your very affectionate & much obliged
                                                         Penelope Iremonger
Wherwell
November the 6 1788

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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 Penelope Iremonger (née Morgan) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/8/1/2

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Dunbar), Penelope Iremonger (née Morgan

Place sent: Wherwell

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 6 November 1788

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Mrs Penelope Iremonger to Mary Hamilton. She notes that she has replied to a letter received from Hamilton at her earliest opportunity. Iremonger is pleased that Hamilton’s journey has been pleasant and that it has given her the opportunity of seeing some of her friends. She makes reference to a ‘Mrs W’ and that she is glad to hear that many people of ‘worth’ feel as Hamilton does for her situation. She notes of the ‘under the hand’ treatment that Mrs W [possibly Mrs Charlotte Walsingham] meets with in the newspapers and that she has already informed Mrs W of the ‘friendly concern’ that Hamilton had expressed for her which ‘I shall on the first opportunity give her the pleasure of again hearing according to your kind desire’.
    Iremonger continues her letter by updating Hamilton on her family.
    Dated at Whirwell [Andover].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 462 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 9 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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