HAM/1/11/2
Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs H.
This Fog makes me so generous /as you
have a Cold & I should grieve to have you increase it
by coming out to me/ that I must send this to
tell you Princeʃs de Dasckaw &c does not come
here this Eveng.- I did design not to send you this
Intelligence, in hopes of seeing you to day & tomorrow
also /for She comes tomorrow Eveng:/ but as ye:
weather is so bad, I thought it wd: be ungenerous
& cd: not ansr: it to my Conscience -- now I have
acted so greatly -- I hope if the Fog should disperse
& you be able to come out, that I shall have
the pleasure of seeing you this Eveng: tho the
Princeʃs does not come -- & tomorrow because
she does -- perhaps you wd: dine here also
& meet Capt: Salvyn who Ld: D has asked;
pray do if you can. I hope yr: cold is better
I have got one too -- our best Compts: to
Mrs.- Hamilton, I fear this Fog affects her
Breath -- it does mine in a slight degree --
Adieu Je suis tout à vous
PD
Friday Morng:
Miʃs Hamilton
James Street
Westminster
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
This Fog makes me so generous /as you
have a Cold & I should grieve to have you increase it
by coming out to me/ that I must send this to
tell you Princess de Dasckaw &c does not come
here this Evening I did design not to send you this
Intelligence, in hopes of seeing you to day & tomorrow
also /for She comes tomorrow Evening/ but as the
weather is so bad, I thought it would be ungenerous
& could not answer it to my Conscience -- now I have
acted so greatly -- I hope if the Fog should disperse
& you be able to come out, that I shall have
the pleasure of seeing you this Evening though the
Princess does not come -- & tomorrow because
she does -- perhaps you would dine here also
& meet Captain Salvyn who Lord Dartrey has asked;
pray do if you can. I hope your cold is better
I have got one too -- our best Compliments to
Mrs.- Hamilton, I fear this Fog affects her
Breath -- it does mine in a slight degree --
Adieu Je suis tout à vous
Philadelphia Dartrey
Friday Morning
Miss Hamilton
James Street
Westminster
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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 Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)
Place sent: Chelsea
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 1777
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton. She writes to see if Hamilton intends to visit her as she knows she has a cold. Princess Dashkova was supposed to be visiting but is not. Dartrey writes that she was hoping not to give Hamilton this 'intelligence' in case it prevented her own visit.
Length: 1 sheet, 201 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 January 2020)
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 November 2021