HAM/1/8/8/31
Copy of letter from Mary Hamilton to Lady Mary Wake (née Fenton)
Diplomatic Text
[1]
There wanted nothing, ever Dear Lady
Wake, to complete my happineʃs but to receive
the congratulations of a Friend
for whom I have
never varied in my attachment from a very early
period of my life, & who's
friendship I knew
how to appreciate, & which I am conscious of
having merited. My Heart thanks you better
than any words can expreʃs for your kindneʃs
at this moment of anxietyMaternal solicitude for my only
Child, who is gratefully thankfull to you and
Miʃs Wake for your present & every past act
of your attention towards her.
Mr. Dickenson unites with me in gratefull
& acknowledgements. Lady Cremorne, yesterday,
communicated ye. gratifying intelligence
I remain, my Dear Lady Wake
Your sincere & faithfulobliged Friend
Mary Dickenson
Novbr. 8th. 1814
32 Devonshire Place
Copy of Letter to
Dowgr: Lady Wake
8th. Novbr. 1814[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This letter is catalogued out of sequence. The whole of the last part of the subseries has been reorganised in this edition, with the proposed sequence HAM/1/8/8/27, HAM/1/8/8/29/2, HAM/1/8/8/29/1, HAM/1/8/8/28, HAM/1/8/8/31 (the present letter and the only one so far transcribed), HAM/1/8/8/30.
2. This passage is written vertically in the left-hand margin.
Normalised Text
There wanted nothing, ever Dear Lady
Wake, to complete my happiness but to receive
the congratulations of a Friend
for whom I have
never varied in my attachment from a very early
period of my life, & whose
friendship I knew
how to appreciate, & which I am conscious of
having merited. My Heart thanks you better
than any words can express for your kindness
at this moment of Maternal solicitude for my only
Child, who is gratefully thankful to you and
Miss Wake for your present & every past act
of attention towards her.
Mr. Dickenson unites with me in grateful
acknowledgements. Lady Cremorne, yesterday,
communicated the gratifying intelligence
I remain, my Dear Lady Wake
Your sincere & obliged Friend
Mary Dickenson
November 8th. 1814
32 Devonshire Place
Copy of Letter to
Dowager Lady Wake
8th. November 1814
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Copy of letter from Mary Hamilton to Lady Mary Wake (née Fenton)
Shelfmark: HAM/1/8/8/31
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: London
Addressee: Lady Mary Wake (née Fenton)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 8 November 1814
Letter Description
Summary: Copy of letter from Mary Hamilton to Lady Wake, thanking her for her
congratulations on her daughter's forth coming marriage. Hamilton writes
that nothing can 'complete her happiness but to receive the
congratulations of a friend for whom I have never waned in my attachment
from a very early period of my life'.
Dated at Devonshire Place.
Length: 1 sheet, 139 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 26 February 2021)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 9 January 2023