Diplomatic Text
From Miss Palmer Niece of Sir Joshua
Reynolds, & who married Lord
Inchiquin
7.
Typed
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton, it is impoʃsible
for me to have the pleasure of drink
=ing tea with you this Evening or Saturday
but if you have a mind to be goodnaturd
you will come to me this Afternoon, &
I will introduce you to one of my
greatest favorites who is one of the
most agreeable Men in the World & I shall
be pleased in making him acquainted with
so amiable a Being as yourself, if you
will give me leave I will send the
See Miss H's diaries.
She was prevented coming by her Engagement to Mr
Dickenson which took place June 18th.
carriage for you, & if you like it we
will take a walk after tea
yours most Affly MPalmer
Leicester fields thursday morn
18th. June 1784
+ The most agreeable Man in the World was Lord
Inchiquin -- who married Miʃs Palmer after the death
of her Uncle Sr. J: Reynolds
Lord Inchiquin was created Marquis of
Thomond on — & on —
died in consequence of a fall from his Horse in
St. Jamess Square London -- the Countess of
Orkney /my Cousin/ is his only Child by his
first wife -- Daughter & heireʃs to my great Uncle
the Earl of Orkney
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton, it is impossible
for me to have the pleasure of drinking
tea with you this Evening or Saturday
but if you have a mind to be goodnatured
you will come to me this Afternoon, &
I will introduce you to one of my
greatest favourites who is one of the
most agreeable Men in the World & I shall
be pleased in making him acquainted with
so amiable a Being as yourself, if you
will give me leave I will send the
carriage for you, & if you like it we
will take a walk after tea
yours most Affectionately Mary Palmer
Leicester fields thursday morning
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Mary Palmer (later O'Brien) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/9/67
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary O'Brien (née Palmer)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 18 June 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Miss Palmer (see HAM/1/9/65) to Mary Hamilton, inviting Hamilton to visit her and to meet the one of her 'greatest favourites who is one of the most agreeable men in the World' [Lord Inchiquin, who later married Palmer].
Hamilton has written manuscript notes about Lord Inchiquin on the back of the sheet.
Length: 1 sheet, 110 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: 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: Francesca Criscuolo, MA student, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (submitted 15 August 2022)
Transliterator: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 14 November 2022)
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: 2 December 2022