Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/8/1/10

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

Diplomatic Text


My dear Madam A thousand thanks for your kind,
very kind, offer, wch we are Mortified that we
cannot reap any benefit ofrom particularly
as we leave town to Morrow Morn:     we
are ingaged to dine wth Mr. Lethieullier
so late, to day,, wch makes it impoʃsible for
us to know at what hour we shall return
I was very sorry I did not find you at
home     we all Join in best wishes to you,
Mr. Dickenson.     & the Charming Louisa    should


be happy to see you all at Wherwell when
ever it suits you to give us that pleasure
in great hast, but am your most faithfull
& obliged P Iremonger.
Wednesday

To Mrs Dickinson[1]

                                                         25th. April 1792[2]

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Notes


 1. The address is written upside down, and is divided into two sections by unfolding, with the first word written vertically above the addressee's name.
 2. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the sheet.

Normalised Text


My dear Madam A thousand thanks for your kind,
very kind, offer, which we are Mortified that we
cannot reap any benefit from particularly
as we leave town to Morrow Morning     we
are engaged to dine with Mr. Lethieullier
so late, to day,, which makes it impossible for
us to know at what hour we shall return
I was very sorry I did not find you at
home     we all Join in best wishes to you,
Mr. Dickenson.     & the Charming Louisa    should


be happy to see you all at Wherwell when
ever it suits you to give us that pleasure
in great haste, but am your most faithful
& obliged Penelope Iremonger.
Wednesday

To Mrs Dickinson

                                                        

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 1. The address is written upside down, and is divided into two sections by unfolding, with the first word written vertically above the addressee's name.
 2. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the sheet.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Mrs Penelope Iremonger (née Morgan) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/8/1/10

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Dunbar), Penelope Iremonger (née Morgan

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 25 April 1792

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mrs Iremonger to Mary Hamilton. She is ‘mortified’ that she cannot accept Hamilton’s offer as she is already engaged.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 117 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 6 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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