Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/8/2/3

Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton --
My Mother thinks her self highly oblig'd to you for
yr Attention to her in writing so Civil a Note --
but she is not so Selfish a Woman as to wish you
to refuse such an offer as that is -- of seeing Mrs Siddons
my Mother & I hope to have the pleasure of seeing
you very soon & we not only excuse you but desire
you not to refuse a place -- for indeed she is worth
seeing more than any Sight I ever saw -- Adieu my dear
Miʃs Hamilton -- I am yrs Affecly DBloʃset
                             Monday Morng 7th. April 1783


Miʃs Bloʃset[1]



Miʃs Hamilton

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)


Notes


 1. This annotation is written vertically.

Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton --
My Mother thinks her self highly obliged to you for
your Attention to her in writing so Civil a Note --
but she is not so Selfish a Woman as to wish you
to refuse such an offer as that is -- of seeing Mrs Siddons
my Mother & I hope to have the pleasure of seeing
you very soon & we not only excuse you but desire
you not to refuse a place -- for indeed she is worth
seeing more than any Sight I ever saw -- Adieu my dear
Miss Hamilton -- I am yours Affectionately Dorothy Blosset
                             Monday morning





Miss Hamilton

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. This annotation is written vertically.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/8/2/3

Correspondence Details

Sender: Dorothy Blosset

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 7 April 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton. She writes that her mother is obliged for Hamilton's note but she is not so 'selfish a woman' as to allow Hamilton to refuse an offer of seeing Mrs Siddons, but hopes that they will have the pleasure of seeing her soon.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 104 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 14 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: 2 November 2021

Document Image (pdf)