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Note from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


13.

My dear friend
      I was much mortified
that I was prevented congratulating you
in person on this happy day -- May you &
my dear friend see many returns of it, & enjoy in unin-
-terrupted conjugal happineʃs the reward
of mutual merit -- ever with perfect esteem
& most sincere attachment
                                                         Yours
                                                         A Maria Clarke
      Saturday[1]
      13th. June 1795

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My dear friend
      I was much mortified
that I was prevented congratulating you
in person on this happy day -- May you &
my dear friend see many returns of it, & enjoy in uninterrupted
 conjugal happiness the reward
of mutual merit -- ever with perfect esteem
& most sincere attachment
                                                         Yours
                                                         Anna Maria Clarke
      Saturday
      13th. June 1795

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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 Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/10/1/19

Correspondence Details

Sender: Anna Maria Clarke

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard (certainty: low)

Date sent: 13 June 1795

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton. She writes of her distress at not being able to congratulate Hamilton in person on this 'happy day' [the tenth anniversary of Hamilton's wedding]. She wishes Hamilton and Clarke's 'dear friend' [John Dickenson] 'many returns' of 'this happy day' and 'uninterrupted conjugal happiness'.
    Original reference No. 13.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 57 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: Research Assistant funding in 2014/15 and 2015/16 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

Research assistant: Donald Alasdair Morrison, undergraduate student, University of Manchester

Transliterator: Jannes Dahlhaus, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted November 2014)

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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