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HAM/1/8/2/9

Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton, if you happen to be disengag'd next
Wednesday Evng. I shall be very happy if you will meet Mrs
Carter
here -- & if you will give her leave she will call on
you & bring you in the Coach. the Weather is so bad for a Chair
I have been Confin'd since last Friday with a dreadful Cold but
thank God it grows better -- but you see it will be charity in you
to help Mrs. Carter Nurse me -- my Mother presents her best Compts.
& I remain yrs most Sincerely DBloʃset -- Mondy Eveng July 16th- 1784[1]



                                                         Miʃs Hamilton --

                                                         Bloʃset[2]

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Notes


 1. 16 July 1784 was a Friday, so either Dorothy Blosset has misdated the letter, or the subsequent addition of the year by a minor hand is wrong. As neither 16 July 1783 nor 16 July 1785 was a Monday, it seems more likely that the error is on Blosset's part. It is however possible (although unlikely) that Blosset was using the Julian rather than the Gregorian calendar, by which 16 July was indeed a Monday.
 2. This annotation is written vertically in the left margin.

Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton, if you happen to be disengaged next
Wednesday Evening I shall be very happy if you will meet Mrs
Carter here -- & if you will give her leave she will call on
you & bring you in the Coach. the Weather is so bad for a Chair
I have been Confined since last Friday with a dreadful Cold but
thank God it grows better -- but you see it will be charity in you
to help Mrs. Carter Nurse me -- my Mother presents her best Compliments
& I remain yours most Sincerely Dorothy Blosset -- Monday Evening July 16th-



                                                         Miss Hamilton --

                                                        

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 1. 16 July 1784 was a Friday, so either Dorothy Blosset has misdated the letter, or the subsequent addition of the year by a minor hand is wrong. As neither 16 July 1783 nor 16 July 1785 was a Monday, it seems more likely that the error is on Blosset's part. It is however possible (although unlikely) that Blosset was using the Julian rather than the Gregorian calendar, by which 16 July was indeed a Monday.
 2. This annotation is written vertically in the left 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/1/8/2/9

Correspondence Details

Sender: Dorothy Blosset

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 16 July 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Dorothy Blosset to Mary Hamilton. She invites Hamilton to visit Elizabeth Carter at Blosset's home and that Carter will call on her in the coach to bring her as the weather is too bad to travel by chair.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 103 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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