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HAM/1/8/2/6

Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

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My dear Miʃs Hamilton, I did Enquire about the rehearsal
& told Mrs. Carter that we could not gain admittance gratis
for half a guinea we might go -- but she declin'd
their proposal, as well as my self who am to be at
two of the performances. I concluded she had told you
this or I wd certainly have sent you word of it --
I am but just return'd home or wd have sent an answer sooner
yrs. Ever Affecly. D Blosset --
                             Dover Street Wednesday Evening --
                                  26th. May 1784


Bloʃset[1]




                                                         Miʃs Hamilton

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Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton, I did Enquire about the rehearsal
& told Mrs. Carter that we could not gain admittance gratis
for half a guinea we might go -- but she declined
their proposal, as well as my self who am to be at
two of the performances. I concluded she had told you
this or I would certainly have sent you word of it --
I am but just returned home or would have sent an answer sooner
yours Ever Affectionately Dorothy Blosset --
                             Dover Street Wednesday Evening --
                                  







                                                         Miss Hamilton

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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 Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/8/2/6

Correspondence Details

Sender: Dorothy Blosset

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 26 May 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton. She informs Hamilton that she had enquired about tickets for the rehearsal and had told Mrs Carter that she could gain admittance for that evening at a cost of a half guinea. Mrs Carter 'declined this proposal'. Blosset writes that she understood that Carter had told her otherwise she would have done so herself.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 88 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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