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HAM/1/8/2/4

Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

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                                                         Dover Street
                                                         15 July 1783

                             Friday Evening --

My dear Miʃs Hamilton
I return you ten thousand thanks for the Verses
which make me flush when I think I could be so
Idle as to mislay them --
I most sincerely wish you a pleasant Summer. I hope
you will be prevail'd on to go with Sr. William
& Lady Wake into Eʃsex til they go into Northampton
Shire
-- I think yr friend can hardly ever be so
tasteleʃs as to be tired of yr company, at least I
judge of others by my own feelings -- & I hope you
will remember that a Post Chaise will meet
you at Fenny Stratford, whenever you will send yr
commands to Mrs. de Salis who is to be found at
Tring Beds Hemel Hemsted Bag[1] -- Adieu for I am all confusion
                             but always yrs very affecly DBloʃset.
if you want a Cheap &
most Aimable Milliner you will oblige me. if you will
apply to Miʃs Forsters in South Molton Street --
      they are poor Gentlewomen; & vastly
                             well behav'd -- [2]






Miʃs Bloʃset

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Notes


 1. That is, post-bag.
 2. This postscript is written at the top of p.1, filling the space between the dateline and the salutation.

Normalised Text


                                                        
                             Friday Evening --

My dear Miss Hamilton
I return you ten thousand thanks for the Verses
which make me flush when I think I could be so
Idle as to mislay them --
I most sincerely wish you a pleasant Summer. I hope
you will be prevailed on to go with Sir William
& Lady Wake into Essex til they go into NorthamptonShire
-- I think your friend can hardly ever be so
tasteless as to be tired of your company, at least I
judge of others by my own feelings -- & I hope you
will remember that a Post Chaise will meet
you at Fenny Stratford, whenever you will send your
commands to Mrs. de Salis who is to be found at
Tring Bedfordshire Hemel Hemsted Bag -- Adieu for I am all confusion
                             but always yours very affectionately Dorothy Blosset.
if you want a Cheap &
most Amiable Milliner you will oblige me. if you will
apply to Miss Forsters in South Molton Street --
      they are poor Gentlewomen; & vastly
                             well behaved --






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 1. That is, post-bag.
 2. This postscript is written at the top of p.1, filling the space between the dateline and the salutation.

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/1/8/2/4

Correspondence Details

Sender: Dorothy Blosset

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: low)

Date sent: 15 July 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton, relating to a journey that Hamilton is going to undertake.
    Dated at Dover Street [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 170 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 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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