HAM/1/11/22

Note from Philadelphia Dawson, Lady Dartrey (later Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

21^[1]

My D^r: Miʃs H.
      Will you come this Ev^g: to
meet L^y: Wake & L^y: Beaumont, pray
bring y^r: work --
                             Y^rs: sincerely
                                                         PD
Saturday 10^th: April 1784^[2] ^[3]
do you think you c^d. poʃsibly
      get one or 2 of M^rs: Delany's worst Flowers for
                             us this Even^g: L^y: W. has not seen

them -- I long to have the art preserved, & I think
you ought to learn it --

Miʃs Hamilton

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Notes

1. The old reference number is written vertically.
2. This date appears to the left of Lady Dartrey's initials.
3. It is not entirely clear whether the date was written by Lady Dartrey or whether some or all was added by Mary Hamilton, as with a number of items in this subseries (some of which could even have been annotated by John Dickenson). On the balance of probabilities we have assumed that Hamilton was usually responsible for the year, as here and in other letters, and in a few cases for the whole date.

Normalised Text

My Dear Miss Hamilton
      Will you come this Evening to
meet Lady Wake & Lady Beaumont, pray
bring your work --
                             Yours sincerely
                                                         PhiladelphiaDartrey
Saturday 10th: April
do you think you could possibly
      get one or 2 of Mrs: Delany's worst Flowers for
                             us this Evening Lady Wake has not seen

them -- I long to have the art preserved, & I think
you ought to learn it --

Miss Hamilton

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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 Philadelphia Dawson, Lady Dartrey (later Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/22

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Dartrey Philadelphia Hannah Dawson (née Freame)

Place sent: London (certainty: low)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: low)

Date sent: 10 April 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton. She asks Hamilton to come to her house this evening to meet Lady Wake and Lady Beaumont and to bring her work. She also enquires if it would be possible to ask Mrs Delany if she could come.

Length: 1 sheet, 68 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, M^rs. or M^rs may occur, but M.^rs or M^r.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

Revision date: 8 August 2025

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