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HAM/1/11/48

Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


42

Dear Mrs: Dickinson

      Wherever you are situated you and
yours, have my sincere wishes that you may find
happineʃs; I have ever so loved the quiet, and the delight-
=ful occupations of the Country, and now I am grown
old, that love for it, has so much increased, that I
cannot feel, as many of your Friends may do for
you, upon your quitting it, to reside in the
tumultuous City -- Probably I might have felt
otherwise, had I the Bleʃsing still, which I once
poʃseʃsed; That you and Mr: Dickenson may long, long
have your Bleʃsing,/ your dear & amiable Louisa
& that she may continue what she has ever been to you both, is
my hearty wish. With Lord Cremornes & my best
Regards to you All, Believe me
                             Dear Mrs: Dickenson
                                       Your's faithfully
                                                         PCremorne
Chelsea Farm
      15 November 1809



Lady Dartrey afterwards Lady Cremorne[1]


[2]
Mrs. Dickenson[3]
      Leighton House
           Leighton Buzzard
                             Bedfordshire
Single[4]

                             [5]

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Notes


 1. This annotation appears in pencil and is written vertically on the right-hand side of the page.
 2. Postmarks: 1) Duty stamp dated 16 November 1809 in black ink; 2) ‘Unpaid’ twopenny postmark from the Chelsea post office in black ink; 3) Timed delivery stamp for 7 o'clock on 16 November 1809, in red ink.
 3. A large figure 2 is stamped to the right of the address, denoting postage due.
 4. This appears to the left of the last line of the address, referring to the number of sheets in the letter.
 5. Seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text



Dear Mrs: Dickinson

      Wherever you are situated you and
yours, have my sincere wishes that you may find
happiness; I have ever so loved the quiet, and the delightful
 occupations of the Country, and now I am grown
old, that love for it, has so much increased, that I
cannot feel, as many of your Friends may do for
you, upon your quitting it, to reside in the
tumultuous City -- Probably I might have felt
otherwise, had I the Blessing still, which I once
possessed; That you and Mr: Dickenson may long, long
have your Blessing,/ your dear & amiable Louisa
& that she may continue what she has ever been to you both, is
my hearty wish. With Lord Cremornes & my best
Regards to you All, Believe me
                             Dear Mrs: Dickenson
                                       Your's faithfully
                                                         Philadelphia Cremorne
Chelsea Farm
      15 November 1809







Mrs. Dickenson
      Leighton House
           Leighton Buzzard
                             Bedfordshire
Single

                            

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 1. This annotation appears in pencil and is written vertically on the right-hand side of the page.
 2. Postmarks: 1) Duty stamp dated 16 November 1809 in black ink; 2) ‘Unpaid’ twopenny postmark from the Chelsea post office in black ink; 3) Timed delivery stamp for 7 o'clock on 16 November 1809, in red ink.
 3. A large figure 2 is stamped to the right of the address, denoting postage due.
 4. This appears to the left of the last line of the address, referring to the number of sheets in the letter.
 5. Seal, in red wax.

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/1/11/48

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: Chelsea

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard

Date sent: 15 November 1809

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton, relating to Hamilton's decision to leave the country and move to Town. Cremorne wishes her happiness wherever she is situated but notes that now she is old her own love for the country has increased.
    Dated at Chelsea Farm.
    Original reference No. 42.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 150 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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