Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/8/2/8

Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton, have you a Mind to take a Walk
this Evening in Kensington Gardens, I will call for you. at any
place a little after 7 & set you down again. at any place,
where you may happen to be Engag'd -- yrs. very Affecly. DBloʃset.
                             Tuesday. ye. 25th. 1784[1]


                                                         Miʃs Hamilton

                                                         Bloʃset[2]

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Notes


 1. The date of this note must be 25 May 1784, as May was the only month in 1784 where 25 May was a Tuesday.
 2. This annotation is written vertically in the right-hand margin.

Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton, have you a Mind to take a Walk
this Evening in Kensington Gardens, I will call for you. at any
place a little after 7 & set you down again. at any place,
where you may happen to be Engaged -- yours very Affectionately. Dorothy Blosset.
                             Tuesday. the 25th.


                                                         Miss Hamilton

                                                        

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 1. The date of this note must be 25 May 1784, as May was the only month in 1784 where 25 May was a Tuesday.
 2. This annotation is written vertically in the right-hand margin.

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/1/8/2/8

Correspondence Details

Sender: Dorothy Blosset

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 25 May 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton, inviting Hamilton to accompany her for a walk in Kensington Gardens.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 54 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 11 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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