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HAM/1/11/47

Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton

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March 21st:
      1806


      my Eyes being still weak
and my occupations so various, on acct.
of our late recent sad Loʃs of a f our good & excellent Wainwright; & a new Sert..
coming; & my dear Husband's spirits,
hasnot being good & strong enough at present
for any Exertion; that I mustcan send
you only a hasty Scrap to tell you,
Dear Mrs. D, that I have sent 2
Vols of Books for yourself, & a small
Parcel for yr Louisa -- (the Legaʃcies
of our beloved Mrs. Carter,) by the
Leighton Buzzard Coach.
      Lady Wake is not in Town, & I have had



no opportunity of conversing with her
upon the painful -subject ---you have
mentiond to me.
      My Husband and I are I bleʃs
God tolerably well; he joins me in
good wishes to yourself, Mr: Dickenson
and your dear Daughter -- Believe me
                             Your's Sincerely
                                                         PCremorne

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March 21st:
      1806


      my Eye being still weak
and my occupations so various, on account
of our late sad Loss of our good & excellent Wainwright; & a new Servant
coming; & my dear Husband's spirits,
not being good & strong enough at present
for any Exertion; I can send
you only a hasty Scrap to tell you,
Dear Mrs. Dickenson, that I have sent 2
Volumes of Books for yourself, & a small
Parcel for your Louisa -- (the Legacies
of our beloved Mrs. Carter,) by the
Leighton Buzzard Coach.
      Lady Wake is not in Town, & I have had



no opportunity of conversing with her
upon the painful subject you have
mentioned to me.
      My Husband and I are I bless
God tolerably well; he joins me in
good wishes to yourself, Mr: Dickenson
and your dear Daughter -- Believe me
                             Your's Sincerely
                                                         Philadelphia Cremorne

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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 Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/47

Correspondence Details

Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)

Place sent: London (certainty: high)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard

Date sent: 21 March 1806

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton. She has forwarded to Hamilton two lots of books and a parcel for her daughter by the Leighton Buzzard Coach: the legacies from their 'beloved Mrs Carter'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 145 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 April 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

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