HAM/1/11/14
Note from Philadelphia Dawson, Lady Dartrey (later Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
My Dr: Miʃs H.
I send by the penny post
(a genteel[2] Meʃsenger) to beg you will
not fail staying with me on Thursday
Eveng: as I have asked Ly: Lothian & Mrs:
Carter; & I send the inclosed, wh: I beg
you to send to Miʃs Gunning, if you
think she will like so quiet a Party;
meeting you will I know be an
Inducement -- pray beg her to bring
her work & bring yours. -- Adieu
Yrs: very Affly.
PDartrey
Monday.
we dine at ½ after 4 on Thursday. you will
meet Mrs: J. Pitt &c &c
1780[3]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This note is catalogued out of sequence. It belongs chronologically between HAM/1/11/2 and HAM/1/11/3. The date of 1780 in Hamilton's annotation on p.2 (originally misread as 1781, hence the shelfmark) can be further constrained as falling between the first Monday of the year and the death of Lady Lothian on 30 September.
2. We have assumed that Dartrey wrote genteel, as gentell (for gentle?) would be an unlikely misspelling at the time.
3. This annotation appears on the left-hand side in the middle of the page.
Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
I send by the penny post
(a genteel Messenger) to beg you will
not fail staying with me on Thursday
Evening as I have asked Lady Lothian & Mrs:
Carter; & I send the enclosed, which I beg
you to send to Miss Gunning, if you
think she will like so quiet a Party;
meeting you will I know be an
Inducement -- pray beg her to bring
her work & bring yours. -- Adieu
Yours very Affectionately
Philadelphia Dartrey
Monday.
we dine at ½ after 4 on Thursday. you will
meet Mrs: John Pitt &c &c
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Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Philadelphia Dawson, Lady Dartrey (later Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/14
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Dartrey Philadelphia Hannah Dawson (née Freame)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: between 3 January and 30 September 1780
notBefore 3 January 1780 (precision: high)
notAfter 30 September 1780 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton. She invites Hamilton to her house for a small party which would include Elizabeth Carter amongst others. She asks Hamilton to invite Miss Gunning [see HAM/1/15] if she thinks she would like to come.
Length: 1 sheet, 99 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
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Revision date: 1 August 2025