HAM/1/11/5
Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
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11th: April 1781
My Dearest
I have a Distreʃs which I
beg you to help me out of; when I
come to the Q. House, I never but
the 2 first times had the Page to open
the Door or announce me; the
last time I waited quite in a
Fright, hearing the Music in
the outward Room, & not knowing
whether I ought to open the Door
myself or not; at last Ly: Wey-
=mouth came, & opened the Door
& went in before me -- now pray
tell me, if there is no Lady in
waiting what am I to do -- & how
shall I do, if there is no Page to
mention my being come.
Pray my Dr: tell me this &
oblige
Yr: Affte:
PD
I hope to see
you there = I design to bring & shou'd
I bring my knotting? --
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red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
My Dearest
I have a Distress which I
beg you to help me out of; when I
come to the Queen's House, I never but
the 2 first times had the Page to open
the Door or announce me; the
last time I waited quite in a
Fright, hearing the Music in
the outward Room, & not knowing
whether I ought to open the Door
myself or not; at last Lady Weymouth
came, & opened the Door
& went in before me -- now pray
tell me, if there is no Lady in
waiting what am I to do -- & how
shall I do, if there is no Page to
mention my being come.
Pray my Dear tell me this &
oblige
Your Affectionate
Philadelphia Dartrey
I hope to see
you there = & should
I bring my knotting? --
St: James's
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: Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/5
Correspondence Details
Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 11 April 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she has 'a distress that [...] [she begs Hamilton] to help' her out of relating to the Queen's House and protocol. The first time she visited there the Page opened the door and announced her and the last time she waited for some time and did not know if she should open the door herself or not. She asks if there is no Lady in Waiting or Page what iss she to do.
Length: 1 sheet, 142 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed March 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