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HAM/1/11/38

Letter from Elizabeth Palfrey to Mary Hamilton

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(36)

From Lady Cremornes
Old faithful Servt. Mrs. Palfrey

7th. April
      1788
Stanhope Street

Dear madam
      I am very much Concernd
to hear of miʃs Dickinsons Illneʃs
but will not mention it to night
I have Sent the only thing I Could
think of to night which was
our Dear angels Cradle but if
it will not do I Can get
tomorrow from Chelsea a little
Bed Compleat -- I have alʃo Sent
a pot of Currant Jelly as
that may be of Service and
any thing elʃe that this house
afford I need not say I am
sure will be at mrs Dickensons
Service. I am madam your obedient
                             Humble Sert E Palfrey

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7th. April
     
Stanhope Street

Dear madam
      I am very much Concerned
to hear of miss Dickinsons Illness
but will not mention it to night
I have Sent the only thing I Could
think of to night which was
our Dear angels Cradle but if
it will not do I Can get
tomorrow from Chelsea a little
Bed Complete -- I have also Sent
a pot of Currant Jelly as
that may be of Service and
any thing else that this house
afford I need not say I am
sure will be at mrs Dickensons
Service. I am madam your obedient
                             Humble Servant Elizabeth Palfrey

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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 Elizabeth Palfrey to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/38

Correspondence Details

Sender: Elizabeth Palfrey

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 7 April 1788

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Elizabeth Palfrey, servant of Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey), to Mary Hamilton, concerning Louisa Dickenson's illness.
    Dated at Stanhope Street [London].
    Original reference No. 36.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 103 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.

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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